The Resurrection and the Old Testament. Jon Paulien

“In so far as the ancient, non-Jewish world had a Bible, its Old Testament was Homer. And in so far as Homer has anything to say about resurrection, he is quite blunt: it doesn’t happen.” This statement sets the table for the fundamental challenge faced by early Christians on this topic. Christianity was born into a world where its central claim was “known” to be false. Outside Judaism, nobody believed in resurrection, at least not in the way that the Bible defines it.