“In this volume, Father Matera presumes and builds on others’ work on the historical issues regarding the empty tomb narratives and the appearances of the risen Jesus, and focuses this work exclusively on the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection for those who believe in and try to follow him. The result is an unfolding of both the remarkable variety and the surprising coherence of the New Testament writers’ treatment of the resurrection—variety in the narrative details of the gospel accounts and in the language and imagery of the letters and the Apocalypse, and coherence within each individual gospel and among all the other writings. What emerges from his study of this diversity is a stunning coherence in the underlying vision regarding such elements as the relationship between Jesus’ preaching of the kingdom of God and the general resurrection, or God’s raising of Jesus as a victory over the power of evil, the vindication of an apparently defeated Jesus, and the promise of everlasting life in a new creation begun with Jesus’ resurrection, furthered by the Spirit’s empowerment of the church, and fulfilled in the ultimate resurrection of the faithful.” Dennis Hamm, SJ, Professor Emeritus at Creighton University.