الكاتب: Biblical Archaeology Society

Not even the intense drama and tragedy of Jesus’ trial, passion, death and burial can prepare one for the utter shock at what comes next in the well-known story: Jesus’ resurrection. The Gospels recount varying stories of the disciples’ astonishment and confusion as they encounter the resurrected Jesus. The Gospel of Luke tells of one such meeting on the road to Emmaus. There is considerable controversy among archaeologists as to which among nine sites may be identified as Biblical Emmaus. In “Emmaus: Where Christ Appeared,” Hershel Shanks puts forth Emmaus Nicopolis as the leading contender. What did the concept of resurrection mean to the earliest Christians? In what ways did it evolve from, and depart from, contemporaneous ideas about death and the afterlife? Author N.T. Wright traces the origins of the idea of bodily resurrection to first-century Judaism in “The Resurrection of Resurrection.”