Judaism In Late Antiquity 4 Death Life After Death Resurrection And The World To Come In The Judaisms Of Antiquity

Author : Alan Avery-Peck,Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004294141

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Judaism in Late Antiquity 4. Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection and The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity by Alan Avery-Peck,Jacob Neusner Pdf

Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in Scripture as a whole; distinct parts of Scripture such as Psalms and the Wisdom literature; apocalyptic and the non-apocalyptic pseudepigraphic literature, Philo; Josephus; the Dead Sea Scrolls; earliest Christianity (the Gospels in particular); the Rabbinic sources; the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch; and the inscriptional evidence.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004101292

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Judaism in Late Antiquity by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Eric J. Gilchrest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004251540

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Revelation 21-22 in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism by Eric J. Gilchrest Pdf

In Revelation 21-22 in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism, Eric J. Gilchrest offers a creative and compelling reading of Revelation 21-22 as understood through the lens of ancient utopianism. The work is in two parts beginning with a detailed portrait of ancient utopianism based on Greco-Roman and Jewish traditions. The portrait sketches the “topography” of the utopian landscape, which includes a thorough account of various traditions using fourteen utopian topoi or motifs. The author then moves to a description of Revelation’s new Jerusalem in light of these two utopian traditions. With sensitivity to how this text would have been read by each utopian perspective, the author constructs a unique reading of a classic passage that highlights the variety of ways the text originally may have been heard.

Author : J. Harold Ellens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440801846

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Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife by J. Harold Ellens Pdf

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all feature ideas about heaven, hell, and afterlife, and these concepts have evolved over time within these religions. This work supplies a detailed and coherent understanding of the broad scope of spiritual thinking in the last 3,000 years within the Abrahamic traditions. Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam provides an all-encompassing examination of historic and contemporary perspectives on afterlife in Western religions. In these three volumes, Judaic, Christian, and Muslim scholars join forces, providing an unprecedented review of their individual faith's traditions. Every significant issue and major theme is discussed; no controversial topic is avoided. From ancient doctrines to modern-day outlooks of conservatives, progressives, and liberals in all three religions, all are analyzed and presented here. The framework of the volumes underscores how the ethics and concepts of eternity in the Western "action" religions contrast with Eastern religions that tend to be characterized as "passive" or "withdrawal" religions in their ethics and their notions of afterlife as absorption within universal spirit, Nirvana, or nonexistence. This work is well-suited for undergraduate and graduate students, general readers interested in religion, and professional scholars, particularly those in fields corollary to religious study.

Author : Candi K. Cann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134817412

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The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife by Candi K. Cann Pdf

This Handbook traces the history of the changing notion of what it means to die and examines the many constructions of afterlife in literature, text, ritual, and material culture throughout time. The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts and covers the following important themes: The study of dying, death, and grief Disposal of the dead: past, present, and future Representations of death: narratives and rhetoric Youth meets death: a juxtaposition Questionable deaths and afterlives: suicide, ghosts, and avatars Material corpses and imagined afterlives around the world Within these sections, central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: the world of death and dying from various cultural viewpoints and timeframes, cultural and social constructions of the definition of death, disposal practices, and views of the afterlife. The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.

Author : Jaime Clark-Soles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567246523

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Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament by Jaime Clark-Soles Pdf

Clark-Soles began this project in order to answer the question, "What exactly does the New Testament say about death and afterlife?" It turns out that it says both more and less than one might hope or expect. By more, she means that every time the subject of death and what happens after death arises, it is clear that the authors' interests far exceed answering that single question. Their comments emerge from the concerns and experiences of living Christian communities, they relate to a larger theological and pastoral agenda, and their primary focus remains life on earth and the proper living of it. The texts say less than one may hope because no author sets out to answer my question directly. There is no systematic theology in the New Testament regarding death and aftelife. Certainly resurrection appears throughout, though differently emphasized and interpreted. Beyond that, the fascinating aspects of the question are in the details of the texts. Therefore, the appropriate question, as it turns out, is not: What does the New Testament say about death and afterlife, but what do various New Testament texts say about it? Others have sought to unify the New Testament witness, glossing over the individual pictures presented by the New Testament authors. Clark-Soles revels in the snapshots of the individuals and am less interested in the family photo. Clark-Soles inquires into the specific language that each author uses regarding death and afterlife. She explores anthropology, cosmology, eschatology, and, where relevant, theology and Christology. Finally, Clark-Soles suggests ways that the stated views function in each situation.

Author : C. D. Elledge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191082795

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Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE-CE 200 by C. D. Elledge Pdf

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers. In this volume, C. D. Elledge offers an interpretation of some of the earliest literature within Judaism that exhibits a confident hope in resurrection. He not only aids the study of early Jewish literature itself, but expands contemporary knowledge of some of the earliest expressions of a hope that would become increasingly meaningful in later Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Elledge focuses on resurrection in the latest writings of the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as the writings of other Hellenistic Jewish authors. He also incorporates later rabbinic writings, early Christian sources, and inscriptions, as they shed additional light upon select features of the evidence in question. This allows for a deeper look into how particular literary works utilized the discourse of resurrection, while also retaining larger comparative insights into what these materials may teach us about the gradual flourishing of resurrection within its early Jewish environment. Individual chapters balance a more categorical/comparative approach to the problems raised by resurrection (definitions, diverse conceptions, historical origins, strategies of legitimation) with a more specific focus on particular pieces of the early Jewish evidence (1 Enoch, Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus). Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE-CE 200 provides a treatment of resurrection that informs the study of early Jewish theologies, as well as their later reinterpretations within Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity.

Author : Matthew C. Easter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107063211

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Faith and the Faithfulness of Jesus in Hebrews by Matthew C. Easter Pdf

This volume explores faith in the Book of Hebrews and posits that it is manifested in four dimensions: ethical, eschatological, Christological, and ecclesiological.

Author : Outi Lehtipuu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004153011

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The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and Lazarus by Outi Lehtipuu Pdf

This book studies in detail the afterlife scene in the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16: 19-31). The description of the afterlife is related, on the one hand, to the overall Hellenistic cultural milieu and, on the other hand, to Luke's eschatological views.

Author : Outi Lehtipuu
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198724810

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Debates Over the Resurrection of the Dead by Outi Lehtipuu Pdf

This study of discourses on the resurrection of the dead examines how early Christian writers developed key texts from the New Testament on the theme, and shows how belief in resurrection became a marker of Christian identity.

Author : Heikki Räisänen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161534905

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The Bible Among Scriptures and Other Essays by Heikki Räisänen Pdf

The essays by Heikki Raisanen (1941-2015) collected in this volume deal with a broad array of topics, ranging from early Christian identities to bibliodrama and other modern-day approaches to the scriptures. The exegetical studies in the first part explore issues related to early Christian eschatology, virginal conception, and Paul's complex argumentation about the Jews and their salvation in Romans 9-11. The essays on ancient and modern interpretations of the Bible in the second part pay special attention to ethical issues, address the "dark sides" of its reception, and discuss the biblical interpretations of Marcion and Joseph Smith. The third section comprises studies on the Bible and Qur'an, while the concluding chapter provides a comprehensive description of the Bible as scripture from a comparative perspective.

Author : Yehuda Septimus
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161534212

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On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer by Yehuda Septimus Pdf

The English term "prayer" is usually understood as communication with God or the gods. Scholars of Jewish ritual until now have accepted this characterization and applied it to Jewish tefillah. Does rabbinic prayer indeed necessarily entail second-person address to God, as many scholars of rabbinic prayer to this point have presumed? In this work, Yehuda Septimus investigates a boundary phenomenon of talmudic prayer - ritual speech with addressees other than God. The book represents a fresh look at the possible range of performances undertaken by talmudic ritual prayer. Moreover, it places that range of performances into the historical context of the rapid emergence of prayer as the centerpiece of Jewish worship in the first half of the first millennium CE.

Author : Tremper Longman III,Peter Enns
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830817832

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Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings by Tremper Longman III,Peter Enns Pdf

Tremper Longman III and Peter E. Enns edit this collection of 148 articles by over 90 contributors on Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ruth and Esther.

Author : Dan Mathewson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567171900

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Death and Survival in the Book of Job by Dan Mathewson Pdf

The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again. The key is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. To help understand this focus on death in Job we turn to the psychohistorian, Robert Lifton, who investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic experiences (wars, natural disasters, etc). According to Lifton, survivors of disaster often sense that their world has "collapsed" and they engage in a struggle to go on living. Part of this struggle involves finding meaning in death and locating death's place in the continuity of life. Like many such survivors, Job's understanding of death is a flashpoint indicating his bewilderment (or "desymbolization") in the early portions of his speeches, and then, later on, his arrival at what Lifton calls "resymbolization," the reconfiguration of a world that can account for disaster and render death - and life - meaningful again.

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674015177

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Religions of the Ancient World by Sarah Iles Johnston Pdf

This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.