Waking from the Dust: Daniel 12:2 and Resurrection Hope in Biblical Theology

"And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake."―Daniel 12:2

Scholars commonly assert that the hope for bodily resurrection is absent in the Old Testament, with Daniel 12:2 providing the exception that proves the rule. But rather than an exception, Daniel 12 is a culmination.

In Waking from the Dust, Mitchell L. Chase argues that Daniel 12:2 sprouts from the rich soil of Old Testament resurrection hope. Chase shows how Daniel 12 draws from earlier biblical texts and informs...