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Jewish Views of the Afterlife

By Raphael , Simcha Paull

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN
9780742566491, 9780742562202, 0742562204, 9780742562219, 0742562212, 0742566498
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1880423 bytes)
Edition
2nd ed
Pages
xlv, 533 pages ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Eschatologie;EschatologyJewish -- History of doctrines;Immortality -- JudaJewish--History of doctrines;Future life--Judaism-

Description

A personal journey -- Is there life after Auschwitz? -- Biblical roots of Jewish views of the afterlife -- Tours of heaven and hell in apocryphal literature -- The world to come in rabbinic Judaism -- Visionary tours of the afterlife in medieval Midrash -- Immortality of the soul in medieval philosophy -- The afterlife journey of the soul in Kabbalah -- Death and the afterlife in Hasidic tales -- A contemporary psychological model of the afterlife -- Afterlife and the renewal of Jewish death rituals.

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