olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba : This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice /

olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba : This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice /

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"Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. The chronological r...

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Corporate Authors: University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization
Other Authors: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Resurrection (Jewish theology) > History of doctrines.
Eschatology, Jewish > History of doctrines.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Jewish Studies.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Eschatologie juive > Histoire des doctrines.
Immortalite > Judaïsme > Histoire des doctrines.
Resurrection > Judaïsme > Histoire des doctrines.
Immortality > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Future life > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The end of the world and the world to come" : what apocalyptic literature says about the time after the end-time / Dereck Daschke
  • Warriors, wives, and wisdom : this world and the world to come in the (so-called) apocrypha / Nicolae Roddy
  • The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon
  • Rabbi Akiva, other martyrs, and Socrates : on life, death, and life after life / Naftali Rothenberg
  • Heaven on earth : the world to come and its (dis)locations / Christine Hayes
  • Olam Ha-ba in rabbinic literature : a functional reading / Dov Weiss
  • Dining in(to) the world to come / Jordan D. Rosenblum
  • What's for dinner in Olam Ha-ba? why do we care in Olam Ha-zeh? : medieval Jewish ideas about meals in the world to come in R. Bahya hen Asher's Shulhan Shel Arba / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
  • The Dybbuk : the origins and history of a concept / Morris M. Faierstein
  • Tasting Heaven : wine and the world to come from the Talmud to Safed / Vadim Putzu
  • Worlds to come between East and West : immortality and the rise of modern Jewish thought / Elias Sacks
  • Emmanuel Levinas's messianism and the world to come : a gnostic-philosophical reading of Tractate Sanhedrin 96b-99a / Federico Dal Bo.

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