Stephen L. Cook

Stephen L. Cook

Stephen L. Cook

Stephen L. Cook serves as the Catherine N. McBurney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Reading Deuteronomy: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Smyth & Helwys, 2015); Conversations with Scripture: 2 Isaiah (Morehouse, 2008); and The Apocalyptic Literature (Abingdon, 2003).

Vincent van Gogh. The Raising of Lazarus

Rise of Belief in Resurrection within Biblical Religion

Resurrections of the dead, some first-century Palestinian Jews affirmed, were one key sign of the Messiah’s imminent appearance, a belief based on mounting hopes within the Hebrew Scriptures.