Transactions of the American Philological Association". Transactions of the American Philological Association. Scholars Press. 124. 1994. ISSN 1533-0699 . Retrieved 4 November 2019. And it should be remembered that Alcestis is not immortal — she and Admetus must eventually die their fated deaths. Erwin Rohde Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks. New York: Harper & Row, 1925 [1921].

Géza Vermes notes that the story of the empty tomb conflicts with notions of a spiritual resurrection. According to Vermes, "[t]he strictly Jewish bond of spirit and body is better served by the idea of the empty tomb and is no doubt responsible for the introduction of the notions of palpability (Thomas in John) and eating (Luke and John)." [129]According to Brichto, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers, the common grave of humans. Although not well defined in the Tanakh, Sheol in this view was a subterranean underworld where the souls of the dead went after the body died. The Babylonians had a similar underworld called Aralu, and the ancient Greeks had one known as Hades. According to Brichto, other biblical names for Sheol were Abaddon "ruin", found in Psalm 88:11, Job 28:22 and Proverbs 15:11; Bor "pit", found in Isaiah 14:15, 24:22, Ezekiel 26:20; and Shakhat "corruption", found in Isaiah 38:17, Ezekiel 28:8. [27] For other uses, see Resurrection (disambiguation). The Resurrection, painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1457–1459 A depiction of a Phoenix, a figure of revival Plaque depicting saints rising from the dead Italian physicist and computer scientist Giulio Prisco presented the idea of "quantum archaeology", "reconstructing the life, thoughts, memories, and feelings of any person in the past, up to any desired level of detail, and thus resurrecting the original person via 'copying to the future'". [79] Turchin, Alexey. "Multilevel Strategy for Immortality: Plan A? Fighting Aging, Plan B? Cryonics, Plan C? Digital Immortality, Plan D? Big World Immortality" . Retrieved 2 November 2022. Vicente, Raul; Rizzuto, Michael; Sarica, Can; Yamamoto, Kazuaki; Sadr, Mohammed; Khajuria, Tarun; Fatehi, Mostafa; Moien-Afshari, Farzad; Haw, Charles S.; Llinas, Rodolfo R.; Lozano, Andres M.; Neimat, Joseph S.; Zemmar, Ajmal (2022). "Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain". Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 14: 813531. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.813531. ISSN 1663-4365. PMC 8902637. PMID 35273490.

The Greeks held that the soul of a meritorious man could be translated into a god in the process of apotheosis (divination) which then transferred them to a special place of honour. [77] Successors of Alexander the Great made this idea very well known throughout the Middle East through coins bearing his image, a privilege previously reserved for gods. [78] The idea was adopted by the Roman emperors, and in the Imperial Roman concept of apotheosis, the earthly body of the recently deceased emperor was replaced by a new and divine one as he ascended into heaven. [79] These stories proliferated in the middle to late first century. [80] The moment of resurrection itself is not described in any of the gospels, but all four contain passages in which Jesus is portrayed as predicting his death and resurrection, or contain allusions that "the reader will understand". [19] The New Testament writings do not contain any descriptions of a resurrection but rather accounts of an empty tomb and appearances of Jesus. [20] Wild ideas in science: Death is reversible". BBC Science Focus Magazine . Retrieved 2 November 2022. Dag Øistein Endsjø. Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Charles H. Talbert. "The Concept of Immortals in Mediterranean Antiquity", Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 94, 1975, pp 419–436. In his 1994 book The Physics of Immortality, American physicist Frank J. Tipler, an expert on the general theory of relativity, presented his Omega Point Theory which outlines how a resurrection of the dead could take place at the end of the cosmos. He posits that humans will evolve into robots which will turn the entire cosmos into a supercomputer which will, shortly before the Big Crunch, perform the resurrection within its cyberspace, reconstructing formerly dead humans (from information captured by the supercomputer from the past light cone of the cosmos) as avatars within its metaverse. [77] Belief in the Day of Resurrection ( yawm al-qiyāmah) is also crucial for Muslims. They believe the time of Qiyāmah is preordained by God but unknown to man. The trials and tribulations preceding and during the Qiyāmah are described in the Quran and the hadith, and also in the commentaries of scholars. The Quran emphasizes bodily resurrection, a break from the pre-Islamic Arabian understanding of death. [24] The absence of any reference to the story of Jesus's empty tomb in the Pauline epistles and the Easter kerygma (preaching or proclamation) of the earliest church has led some scholars to suggest that Mark invented it. [note 12] Allison, however, finds this argument from silence unconvincing. [120] Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John contain two independent attestations of an empty tomb, which in turn suggests that both used already-existing sources [121] and appealed to a commonly held tradition, though Mark may have added to and adapted that tradition to fit his narrative. [122] Empty tomb and resurrection appearances [ edit ] N. T. Wright emphatically and extensively argues for the reality of the empty tomb and the subsequent appearances of Jesus, reasoning that as a matter of "inference" [123] both a bodily resurrection and later bodily appearances of Jesus are far better explanations for the empty tomb and the 'meetings' and the rise of Christianity than are any other theories, including those of Ehrman. [123] [124] Dale Allison argues for an empty tomb that was later followed by visions of Jesus by the Apostles and Mary Magdalene. [125]

The apostles, who were eye-witnesses to the risen Christ, experienced dramatic changes in their lives after meeting him, ruling out the possibility that the resurrection story is an invented one. The evidence from Jewish texts and from tomb inscriptions points to a more complex reality: for example, when the author of the Book of Daniel wrote that "many of those sleeping in the dust shall awaken", [72] religion scholar Dag Øistein Endsjø believes he probably had in mind a rebirth as angelic beings (metaphorically described as stars in God's Heaven, stars having been identified with angels from early times); such a rebirth would rule out a bodily resurrection, as angels were believed to be fleshless. [73] Other texts range from the traditional Old Testament view that the soul would spend eternity in the underworld, to a metaphorical belief in the raising of the spirit. [74] Most avoided defining what resurrection might imply, but a resurrection of the flesh was a marginal belief. [75] As Outi Lehtipuu states, "belief in resurrection was far from being an established doctrine" [76] of Second Temple Judaism. Anthony Cuthbertson (9 December 2015). "Virtual reality heaven: How technology is redefining death and the afterlife". International Business Times . Retrieved 10 December 2015. Caroline Walker Bynum. The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

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Resurrecting the Dead - Futurisms - The New Atlantis". Futurisms - The New Atlantis. 6 February 2010 . Retrieved 6 July 2015. a b c Savin-Baden, Maggi; Burden, David (1 April 2019). "Digital Immortality and Virtual Humans". Postdigital Science and Education. 1 (1): 87–103. doi: 10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6. ISSN 2524-4868. S2CID 149797460. But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied ( 1 Corinthians 15:12-14, 19).