Return from Emmaus: The Resurrection Theme in Scripture
Overview
The New Testament figures of speech for resurrection include
- Birth from barrenness
- Awakening from sleep
- Revival from thirst or hunger
- Deliverance through baptismal waters of judgment
- Release from imprisonment
- Return from exile
- Death decree and release
- The raising up of a fallen tabernacle
Return from Emmaus explores these figures of speech in the Old Testament to see how the evangelists and apostles would have identified the gospel of resurrection in numerous Hebrew passages.
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- Strives to understand the Old Testament the way that the apostles did in terms of the resurrection
- Provides fresh insight on resurrection theology
- Analyzes figures of speech in the Old Testament and their relationship to the resurrection
- Part One: The Resurrection Theme throughout the Scriptures
- The Resurrection as the Theme of the Old Testament
- The Gospel Pattern of Suffering (Death and Burial) Followed by Glory (Resurrection)
- Part Two: Eight Essays on the Resurrection Theology of the New Testament
- The Resurrection Portrayed in New Testament Dramatic Narrative
- The Gospel Foreseen in the Healing Ministry of Jesus According to Mark
- Gospel Symmetry in the Book of Luke
- John’s Theology of the Suffering and Glory of the Word of God
- The Open Tomb as the Door to the New World
- Luke’s Vision of Resurrection Power: The Desert Blossoms with Redemption and a Dry Tree Bears Fruit
- The Brightest Heaven of Imagination: The New Testament Vision of the Radiant Splendor of Resurrection Redemption
- “What Things?” the Resurrection and Redemption’s Comic Turn
Top Highlights
“Any hermeneutic unable to articulate convincingly the resurrection of Christ as the great theme of the Hebrew Bible is wholly inadequate. Of necessity, it is neither Christian nor apostolic in its authority.” (Page 4)
“But the emblem of the word of God broken for the sin of the people suggests a Christian reading that illustrates the effect of sin upon the incarnate Word of God, who was himself likewise broken for the sin of His people (Matt 26:26).” (Page 60)
“The sight of the scroll of the book sprinkled with blood is a graphic emblem of the Word of God, which in the incarnation would likewise be covered in the blood of covenant consecration.” (Page 59)
“All of this restoration of the word of God anticipated the resurrection of the incarnate Word of God, who suffered the blast of the God’s judgment in tasting mortal death and yet rose again, because in him operated the power of an indestructible life (Acts 3:15; Heb 7:16).” (Page 61)
“Likewise in the days of his flesh the Word of God who spoke openly in the temple (John 18:20) was summoned by the ruling authorities (John 18:28), his body was pierced, his flesh shredded (John 19:1, 16), and his sacrifice fulfilled the purpose intended by the whole burnt offerings.” (Page 60)
- Title: Return from Emmaus: The Resurrection Theme in Scripture
- Author: Warren A. Gage
- Publisher: St. Andrews House
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 97
Dr. Warren Gage is founder and President of the Alexandrian Forum. He received his PhD and MA from the University of Dallas, his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, and his JD from SMU Dedman School of Law. Previously, Dr. Gage served as Professor of Old Testament and Dean of Faculty at Knox Theological Seminary. While at Knox, he founded and directed the Christianity and Classical Studies graduate program. Dr. Gage is an ordained minister in the PCA and has authored numerous books and both scholarly and popular-level articles.
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Koos de Lijster
2/17/2022
This is not a review, but information about the difference in content between two closely releated books by dr. Gage. "In our first book entitled Milestones to Emmaus: The Third Day Resurrection in the Old Testament, we sought to reconstruct the resurrection hermeneutic of Jesus by taking our clue from the Lukan account of the Emmaus disciples wherein Jesus said that the Old Testament taught a third day resurrection. We identified about forty references to the “third day” in the Hebrew Scriptures and then applied the “suffering to glory” template to the narratives where the third day reference was embedded. Our approach was inductive, seeking to discover the patterns that suggested a figural “suffering of death” followed by a kind of “resurrection glory.” We then attempted to “reverse engineer” our way back to a better understanding of the hermeneutic of the Savior by which Jesus was able to claim that all the Scriptures spoke of the suffering and glory of Christ. While our first approach to the Old Testament was inductive, our approach in this companion volume will be deductive. We begin by identifying the figural patterns of “death and resurrection” in the New Testament in the expectation that the figures of speech used by the evangelists and apostles respecting death and resurrection will open up windows to a similar interpretive method applicable to Old Testament narrative. By this means we will be able to explore Old Testament passages that express the suffering and glory gospel to other passages, some of which will not have a specific reference to the third day." (Warren Austin Gage, Return from Emmaus: The Resurrection Theme in Scripture (Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Warren A. Gage, 2011), 7.)