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Making the Dead Alive (Endnotes)

1. Will Durant, The Life of Greece (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1939), pp. 137, 165, 190, 311 and 312, 516 and 517. Close

2. A reason for that is that the Sadducees based their belief system on only the five books of Moses (Genesis-Deuteronomy), which they claimed have no reference to the resurrection. That is why when Jesus answered them about the resurrection; he mentioned Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Matt. 22:32), because he knew that any reference to the resurrection outside of the books of Moses, such as Ezekiel 37, would be immediately rejected as inauthentic. Close

3. Alice Turner, The History of Hell (Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1993), p. 40. Close

4. Bullinger, E.W. A Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament. Samuel Bagster and Sons Ltd., London, Tenth Edition, 1971. Close

5. Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version™ © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. Close

6. See our book, on page 3 of the enclosed price list, The Christian’s Hope: The Anchor of the Soul (Christian Educational Services, Indianapolis, IN, 2004), Chapter 8, pp. 137-148. For further study on the Christian’s Hope visit TruthOrTradition.com/hope Close