N. T .Wright unequivocally affirmed that “there is no evidence that the anastasis [resurrection] root meant anything other than bodily resurrection, either in the paganism that denied it or the Pharisaic Judaism that affirmed it” (p. 215),
"meaning of ‘resurrection’ throughout the literature . . . pagan, Jewish and Christian” always refers to bodily life after death. Wright then concedes that to argue that the word refers to something other than this is “to strain usage well beyond breaking point” (p. 474)