

The New Testament claims that the Pharisees believed in the resurrection, but does not specify whether this included the flesh or not. Both Josephus and the New Testament record that the Sadducees did not believe in an afterlife, but the sources vary on the beliefs of the Pharisees. either to immortality or to resurrection from the dead" in the Dead Sea scrolls texts. Davies, there is "little or no clear reference. According to the British scholar in ancient Judaism Philip R. Resurrection of the dead also appears in detail in the extra-canonical books of Enoch, in the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 2 Esdras.

The concept of resurrection of the physical body is found in 2 Maccabees, according to which it will happen through recreation of the flesh. Samaritans base it solely on a passage called the Haazinu in the Samaritan Pentateuch, since they accept only the Torah and reject the rest of the Hebrew Bible.ĭuring the Second Temple period, Judaism developed a diversity of beliefs concerning the resurrection. Jews today base this belief on the Book of Isaiah (Yeshayahu), Book of Ezekiel (Yeḥez'qel), and Book of Daniel (Dani'el). While there was no belief in personal afterlife with reward or punishment in Judaism before 200 BC, in later Judaism and Samaritanism it is believed that the God of Israel will one day give teḥiyyat ha-metim ("life to the dead") to the righteous during the Messianic Age, and they will live forever in the world to come ( Olam Ha-Ba).

A dead man's body that was thrown into the dead Elisha's tomb is resurrected when the body touches Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:21).Elisha raises the son of the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:32–37) this was the very same child whose birth he previously foretold (2 Kings 4:8–16).The prophet Elijah prays and God raises a young boy from death (1 Kings 17:17–24).There are three explicit examples in the Hebrew Bible of people being resurrected from the dead: Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, engraving by Gustave Doré (1866)
