This dissertation employs the idioms of haunting and spectrality to read across these kinds of materials alongside Jesus' resurrection. Each chapter reads one gospel text alongside additional ancient texts from the early Roman imperial era. Thus, the Gospel of Mark pairs with materials concerning the Roman Emperors, Luke-Acts pairs with 2 Maccabees, and the Gospel of John pairs with Leucippe and Clitophon. This project explores the roles that spectrality plays in all of these texts. In each case, there appears to be complex and contradictory negotiations of life and death, absence and presence, and past, present, and future. Resurrection in these gospels proves to be a participant in these spectral dynamics. Spectrality and ghostliness are signs that these texts are haunted. By reading these diverse materials together, this dissertation argues that they are all haunted in their own ways by the globalizing presence of the Roman Empire. The metaphysical globalization of Roman imperialism, like present day globalization, raises major questions about the human being's place in the world amid life and death. Each of the chapters of this dissertation explore how these texts are haunted by these questions, and how they provide their own haunting alternatives to this spectral order of things.