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Why is bodily resurrection central to biblical hope?

Part of a series: questions that make more sense when the Tanakh and the New Testament are read together.

Daniel promises that “many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake” (Daniel 12:2) — bodies, not just souls. Paul spends a whole chapter defending the same physical claim about Messiah and about everyone else (1 Corinthians 15).

Why does bodily resurrection carry this much weight in both testaments?

  • Daniel 12:2
  • 1 Corinthians 15

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