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36. NHL, p. 395.
37. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, p. 333.
38. See Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, p. 16.
39. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, p. 334.
40. Douglas, Natural Symbols.
41. NHL, p. 407.
42. NHL p. 408. This and the previous quotation are taken from Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, p. 92.
43. NHL, p. 342, from Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, p. 93.
44. I will discontinue putting gnostic in quotation marks to indicate that they are “so-called” gnostics but I would still maintain the arbitrary nature of the term.
45. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, p. 321.
46. Pagels, “The Mystery of the Resurrection.”
47. Pol. Phil. 7.1, Roberts, Donaldson, and Crombie, p. 73.
48. van Unnik, “The Newly Discovered Gnostic.”
49. For more detail, see Dewart, Death and Resurrection, pp. 36-114.
50. For a recent feminist meditation on this fact, see Schaberg, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene.
51. R. Miller, The Complete Gospels.
52. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures.
53. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels.
52. Frend, Martyrdom and Persecution.
54. Oden, In Her Words, p. 31; also see Castelli, Martyrdom and Memory.
55. It is what we expect at the end of life because of the heavenly journeyers-a long list of people that begins with Etana and Adapa and ends with some of those who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
56. See the very interesting treatment of this martyrology in Castelli, Martyrdom and Memory.
57. See A. Segal, Two Powers in Heaven.
58. “Samael” is Aramaic for the poison of ’El and is also a fairly common reference to Satan in rabbinic literature.
59. B. Pearson, “Revisiting Norea,” p. 275.
60. Schüssler-Fiorenza, Searching the Scriptures, p. 71.
61. Shalev, “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” My thanks to Darcy Hirsh, a senior major in Religion at Barnard, with whom these interpretations were developed.
62. Jones, “A Case Study in ‘Gnosticism,’” p. 206.
63. P. Brown, The Body and Society, p. 23.
64. Jones, “A Case Study in ‘Gnosticism,’” p. 208.
65. Ibid., p. 216.
66. See Perkins, Resurrection, p. 363.
67. See Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body, pp. 30-32.
68. See Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 73.
69. As quoted in ibid., p. 77.
70. Ibid., p. 84.
71. Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body, p. 21.
72. See ibid., p. 37; E. Evans, Tertullians Treatise on the Resurrection, pp. ix-xxxv; Cardman “Tertullian on the Resurrection.”
73. Satran, “Fingernails and Hair.”
74. Here Tertullian ignores a missionary advantage for resurrection that contemporary televangelists sometimes stress: resurrected flesh has more fun than resurrected souls.
75. Roberts, Donaldson, and Crombie, Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, vol. 15, p. 331.
76. See Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body, p. 37.
77. See Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 120.
78. See ibid., p. 122.
79. Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body, pp. 64-66.
80. Perkins, Resurrection, p. 375.
81. Roberts, Donaldson and Crombie, Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, vol. 10, p. 139.
82. A. Scott, Origen and Life of Stars.
83. See Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 135.
84. It was Methodius who most significantly captained the opposition to Origen’s synthesis.
85. Pelikan, Christianity and Classical Culture.
86. Dennis, “Gregory on Resurrection of Body.”
87. Quoted from Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 148.
88. From A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nice Fathers, vol. 5, p. 416.
89. Ibid., p. 417.
90. See On the Soul and the Resurrection; Callahan, Saint Gregory of Nyssa, pp. 198-272.
91. Cf. Dennis, “Gregory on Resurrection of Body,” p. 56.
92. See Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 164.
93. See Ibid., p. 174.
94. Quotations from this sermon are taken from Mourant, Augustine on Immortality and quoted from Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 175.
95. See Dewart, Death and Resurrection, p. 176.
96. Fredriksen,