General resurrection or universal resurrection is the belief in a resurrection of the dead, or resurrection from the dead by which most or all people who have died would be resurrected. Various forms of this concept can be found in Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Samaritan and Zoroastrian eschatology.
Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, fresco from the Dura-Europos synagogue
Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, engraving by Gustave Doré (1866)
Resurrection of the Flesh (c. 1500) by Luca Signorelli – based on 1 Corinthians 15: 52: "the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto.
Detail from a North Mississippi Christian cemetery headstone with the inscription: "May the resurrection find thee On the bosom of thy God."
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which involves the same person or deity coming back to another body. Disappearance of a body is another similar, but distinct, belief in some religions.
The Resurrection, painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1457–1459
A depiction of a Phoenix, a figure of revival
Plaque depicting saints rising from the dead
The Resurrection of Lazarus, painting by Leon Bonnat, France, 1857
