@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1996.50.001.BREM, author = "Bremmer, J.N.", title = "The Resurrection between Zarathustra and Jonathan Z. Smith", journal= "NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion", year = "1996", volume = "50", number = "2", pages = "89-107", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT1996.50.001.BREM", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1996.50.001.BREM", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2590-3268", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Abstract In this contribution I study three aspects of the history of the resurrection in antiquity. Firstly, after a short survey of the resurrection in the New Testament, I show that this doctrine was not particularly important in Qumran or among the Essenes. Secondly, I argue that the resurrection was not very important for the ancient Persians, who only started to thematize the doctrine in competition with Christianity. Thirdly, I suggest that J.Z. Smith wrongly interprets the ‘dying and rising gods’, since he takes insufficient account of the chronology of the evidence.", }