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IS THE RESURRECTION STORY OF JESUS UNIQUE?

Yes. People often say that the first Christians took the idea of resurrection from other religions of the time. The problem with that idea is that these resurrections were something that happened to gods, not to religious teachers.

It happened to the gods Osiris (in Egypt) and Tammuz (in Babylon), but not to the philosopher Socrates in Athens. Before the first Easter, no mere human hero in Jewish or pagan legends had ever returned to their body after death. And certainly no recently killed teacher. In this, the resurrection of Jesus is unprecedented.

Many Jews believed that true believers would be raised from the dead at the coming of the Messiah at the end of time. But they had no idea that anyone might jump the gun and have an individual resurrection.

More questions about Jesus' resurrection


  


Christians believe that three days after he was put to death, Jesus rose again from the dead. These questions look at the issues surrounding the resurrection of Jesus.

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Picture: 20th-century icon of Christ by Gregory Kroug.
 
 

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