1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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• Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
  • Primary texts (Pseudepigrapha, Targum, Midrash, Targum) about Messainic Expectation from (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
  • "Bread and Fish," "Crucifixion of Jesus," "Revealed to Peter," "Resurrection of Jesus," "Revealed to Disciples," "Revealed to James," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
  • Chapter IX, The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans, Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110).
  • Vision III.5, Shepherd of Hermas. (c.145)
  • I.VIII.2, III.XIII.1, 3, IV.XXIV.1, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
  • I.20, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 207)
  • III.8, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 209)
  • Chapter LV, On The Soul, Tertullian (c. 210)
  • IV.4, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
  • Chapter XLVIII, On the Resurrection of the Flesh,  Tertullian (c. 211)
  • Chapter XV, Chapter XXIX, Chapter XXX, Against Praxeas,  Tertullian (c. 213)
  • Chapter XIX, On Modesty, Tertullian (c. 217)
  • I.VIII.2, III.II.5, First Principles (De Principiis), Origen. (c.225)
  • II.LXIII, VI.X, Against Celsus, Origen (c. 246)
  • I.8, II.1, Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320).
  • From the Geneva Notes.
    • "And so at the length he begins this treatise at Christ's resurrection, which is the ground and foundation of ours, and confirms it first by the testimony of the scriptures and by the witness of the apostles, and of more than five hundred brethren, and last of all by his own."
  • From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
    • "When sinners are, by Divine grace, turned into saints, God causes the remembrance of former sins to make them humble, diligent, and faithful."
  • From Wesley's Notes.
    • "An untimely birth - It was impossible to abase himself more than he does by this single appellation. As an abortion is not worthy the name of a man, so he affirms himself to be not worthy the name of an apostle."
  • From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
    • "Christ's resurrection rests on the evidence of many eye-witnesses, including Paul himself, and is the great fact preached as the groundwork of the Gospel: they who deny the resurrection in general, must deny that of Christ, and the consequence of the latter will be, that Christian preaching and faith are vain."
  • From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
    • "Among the various false doctrines which had crept into the church at Corinth, composed of those who had so recently been heathen, and who had so much to unlearn, was one that the resurrection of the soul from sin to a new life; that this resurrection was already past in the case of those converted (2 Tim. 2:18), and that a resurrection after death was impossible."
• Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
  • Commentary, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Karl Jacobson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
    • "Whether then it is we or they (and may God make it both), so let us proclaim, that the world might come to believe; that Christ Jesus died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, and that he we raised again."
  • 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Proper 5C: Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
  • "First Thoughts on Passages on Year C Epistle Passages in the Lectionary," Epiphany 5, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
    • "One may wonder why Paul suddenly interrupts his concerns with spiritual gifts which he has been expounding since chapter 12 to speak about resurrection. The answer becomes clear when we look at the whole chapter and at the whole letter."
  • "The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources.
    • "What is the gospel, what are we to do with it, what can it give us and what must our response to it be?"
  • Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Discussion, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Wesley White. "A place of conversation regarding Progressive Christianity."
    • "Proclaimed and received - a circuit through which energy might flow. This is a valuable tool that can evolve as it works."
  • "Basic Faith," Expository Essay, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Dr. William R. Long. Part 2.
    • "...even today, when you communicate that word, you combine both the tradition and your personality. The tradition comes through you, too."
  • Commentary, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, C. Clifton Black, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2009.
    • "The Chief Justice has decided the case in favor of Jesus, consistent with Israel's Constitution, in a verdict corroborated by competent witnesses."
  • "First Thoughts on Passages on Year B Epistle Passages in the Lectionary," Easter Day, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
    • "Affirming that God raised Jesus from the dead (whether with a transformation model or a replacement model) is foundational for reading the story of Jesus as paradigmatic for us all: there is death and there is hope!"
  • 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Easter B: Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
  • "This Is What We Preach," The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey with Jesus Foundation.
    • "I believe the first believers partly because of their chronicle of disbelief—their own and that of their detractors. To me it rings true. They knew from firsthand experience that you cannot compel belief in the resurrection."
• Articles & Background:
  • "1 Corinthians 15:Thematic Elaboration." From The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology, Dr. Vernon K. Robbins, London: Routledge, 1996.
    • "Elaboration, then, is a mode of argumentation central to early Christian discourse. Without this kind of intertextual argument, it is doubtful that Christianity would have become a powerful alternative to other Jewish groups at the time."
  • "Apocryphal Apparitions: 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 as Post-Pauline Interpolation," by Robert M. Price. Journal of Higher Criticism 2/2 (1995).
    • "...this pericope presents us instead with a piece of later, post-Pauline Christianity."
  • "Towards Sharing the One Faith," Faith and Order Paper No. 113. World Council of Churches, 1996. A study/discussion guide on the Nicene Creed.
  • "Awakened by Easter," Gayraud Wilmore, Christianity and Crisis, 1989. At Religion Online.
    • "Since rereading 1 Corinthians 15 during these days of quiet bereavement I have been more than usually sensitive to the New Testament image of death as sleep, to the several connotations and implications of words in the Bible that speak of sleeping and awakening, perishing and quickening, death and resurrection."
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  • Adams, Joanna M., "Good News Indeed," Journal for Preachers, 2004.
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  • Baird, William R., "What Is the Kerygma: A Study of 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and Galatians 1:11-17," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1957.
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  • Bartlett, David, "The Easter Texts: Hope, Comfort, Courage," Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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  • Bishop, Eric F.F., "The Risen Christ and the Five Hundred Brethren (1 Cor 15,6)," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1956.
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  • Borchert, Gerald L., "The Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15," Review & Expositor, 1983.
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  • Chamblin, Knox, "Revelation and Tradition in the Pauline Euangelion," Westminster Theological Journal, 1986.
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  • Conzelmann, Hans, translated by Mathias Rissi, "On the Analysis of the Confessional Formula in 1 Corinthians 15:3-5," Interpretation, 1966.
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  • Copenhaver, Martin B., "Easter Nonsense," Journal for Preachers, 2007. (Sermon)
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  • Endsjø, Dag Øistein, "Immortal Bodies, before Christ: Bodily Continuity in Ancient Greece and 1 Corinthians," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2008.
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  • Gangel, Kenneth O., "According to the Scriptures," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1968.
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  • Gilmour, S. MacLean, "The Christophany to More than Five Hundred Brethren," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1961.
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  • Hauerwas, Stanley, "The Resurrection and the Jesus Seminar: A Sermon with Commentary," Journal for Preachers, 1998.
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  • Hollander, Harm W. and Gijsbert E. van der Hout, "The Apostle Paul Calling Himself an Abortion: 1 Corinthians 15:8 within the Context of 1 Corinthians 15:8-10," Novum Testamentum, 1996.
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  • Horsley, Richard A., "'How Can Some of You Say that There Is No Resurrection of the Dead?' Spiritual Elitism in Corinth," Novum Testamentum, 1978.
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  • Janssen, Claudia, "Bodily Resurrection (1 Cor. 15)? The Discussion of the Resurrection in Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, Dorothee Sölle and Contemporary Feminist Theology," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2000.
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  • Jones, Peter Rhea, "1 Corinthians 15:8, Paul the Last Apostle," Tyndale Bulletin, 1985.
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  • MacGregor, Kirk R., "1 Corinthians 15:3B-6A, 7 and the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2006.
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  • Mitchell, Matthew W., "Reexamining the 'Aborted Apostle': An Exploration of Paul's Self-Description in 1 Corinthians 15.8," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2003.
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  • Nissiotis, Nikos A., "Meaning of Reception in Relation to Results of Ecumenical Dialogue on Basis of Faith & Order," Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 1985.
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  • Pagels, Elaine H., "'The Mystery of the Resurrection': A Gnostic Reading of 1 Corinthians 15," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1974.
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  • Peters, Ted, "What Is the Gospel," Perspectives in Religious Studies, 1986.
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  • Peterson, Jeffrey, "The Extent of Christian Theological Diversity: Pauline Evidence," Restoration Quarterly, 2005.
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  • Powell, Mark Allan, "Echoes of Jonah in the New Testament," Word & World, 2007.
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  • Sibinga, Joost Smit, "1 Corinthians 15:8/9 and Other Divisions in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11," Novum Testamentum, 1997.
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  • Sider, Ronald J., "St. Paul's Understanding of the Nature and Significance of the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:1-19," Novum Testamentum, 1977.
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  • Smit Sibinga, Joost, "1 Cor 15:8/9 and Other Divisions in 1 Cor 15:1-11," Novum Testamentum, 1997.
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  • Walker, William O., Jr., "Postcrucifixion Appearances and Christian Origins," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1969.
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  • Webber, Randall C., "A Note on 1 Corinthians 15:3-5," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1983.
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  • Wegener, Mark I., "The Rhetorical Strategy of 1 Corinthians 15," Currents in Theology and Mission, 2004.
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  • Willimon, William H., "Get Out Of Here," The Christian Century, 2004.
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• Reviews:
  • Review: Jose Miguel Garci A Pe Rez, La Catequesis ma s Consoladora de San Pablo: Las luminosas oscuridades de 1 Cor 15. Ediciones Encuentro, S.A., 2002. Review by Pheme Perkins in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.
• Sermons:
  • "The Christian Center," Dr. Elizabeth Achtemeier, 1993. 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club.
    • "We now know from whence we came and to whom it is we are going. We now experience God's forgiveness in Christ as our daily sustenance."
• With Children:
  • "The Resurrection," Talks to Children, Rev. Donald McCorkindale, Dalgety Parish Church, Fife, Scotland.
  • "Jesus Visits His Disciples, but Thomas Needs Proof," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
• Drama:
• Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
  • Clip Art, 1 Corinthians 15:8, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
• Hymns and Music:
  • Hymns with Scripture Allusions: 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4, 10. The Cyber Hymnal.
  • Hymnal Scripture References, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship.
  • "Listen Sisters, Listen Brothers!" hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. Based on 1 Corinthians 15. Tune: BEACH SPRING.
• Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
  • Resurrection
• Movies Listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
  • Resurrection
  • Rebirth/New Life
  • Seeing/Not Seeing
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