The Transformation of the Wicked and the Righteous
Chapter 49
1But further, I ask you, O Mighty One; and I shall ask grace from him who created all things. 2In which shape will the living live in your day? Or how will remain their splendor which will be after that? 3Will they, perhaps, take again this present form, and will they put on the chained members which are in evil and by which evils are…
Jews of the Second Temple period held a variety of views about death and the afterlife. Among those who believed in bodily resurrection, the question naturally arose as to what the resurrected body would look like. How would it differ from the body before death? Would the body return as young or old? Bright or dark? Corruptible or incorruptible? According to 2 Baruch, the bodies of the righteous will become more splendid, while the bodies of the wicked will become monstrous. See also the discussion of the resurrected body in 1 Corinthians.
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