RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Bremmer, J.N.YR 1996 T1 The Resurrection between Zarathustra and Jonathan Z. Smith JF NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, VO 50 IS 2 SP 89 OP 107 DO https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT1996.50.001.BREM PB Amsterdam University Press, SN 2590-3268, AB 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., UL https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1996.50.001.BREM