Judaism in Late Antiquity 4. Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection and The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of AntiquityAlan Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in the literary evidence for late antique Judaism. The volume covers the vie w of Scripture as a whole as against other Israelite writings; 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, out of material culture, the inscriptional evidence. The result is both to highlight the range of available perspectives on this important issue and to illuminate a central problem in the study of Judaism in late antiquity, phrased neatly as “One Judaism or many?” Here we place on display indicative components of Judaism in their full diversity, leaving it for readers to determine whether the notion of a single, coherent religion falls under the weight of a mass of documentary contradictions or whether an inner harmony shines forth from a repertoire of largely shared and only superficially-diverse data. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
I THE LEGACY OF SCRIPTURE | 33 |
2 Death and Afterlife in the Psalms | 61 |
Countering the Dreaded Death after Death in Ancient Israelite Society | 87 |
4 Death and Afterlife in the Wisdom Literature | 101 |
II JUDAIC WRITINGS IN GREEK | 117 |
6 Judgment LifeAfterDeath and Resurrection in the Apocrypha and the NonApocalyptic Pseudepigrapha | 141 |
7 Eschatology in Philo and Josephus | 163 |
IV EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY | 213 |
V RABBINIC JUDAISM | 241 |
The Two Talmuds and Associated MidrashCompilations | 267 |
The Inscriptional Evidence | 293 |
13 The Resurrection of the Dead and the Sources of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch | 311 |
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Judaism in Late Antiquity, Part 4 Jacob Neusner,Alan Jeffery Avery-Peck,Bruce Chilton No preview available - 2000 |
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