Superar el duelo ante la muerte de un ser querido. Un acercamiento exegético-teológico.

That research works the text of the Gospel of John 11, 1-45 in order to recognize the importance of the concepts of mourning and death and how these concepts are understood against the categories of resurrection and life in theology for the Johannine community and how that perspective is understood at present in order to establish guidelines that help assimilate, understand and overcome grief in the face of death. The above, from three axes: the development of the categories, the exegesis and the theological keys of the text. In the development of categories, the concepts of mourning, death, resurrection, and life in Semitic thought are determined from the Old and New Testaments. Then the exegesis of the pericope of Jn 11, 1-45 is presented employing an approach to diachronic and synchronic analysis. That is to say, it is exposed to the author, composition, and recipients of the Gospel of Saint John and the narrative analysis respectively. To conclude, the theological keys offered by the text are mentioned and thus express the hermeneutics for updating the message using the categories, resurrection and life, in order to establish a contribution to the Christians of today who, faced with the reality of mourning for the death of a loved one, they forget the eschatological hope.