olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba : This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice / / edited by Leonard Greenspoon.
"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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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Jewish civilization.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's Introduction
- Contributors
- "The End of the World and the World to Come": What Apocalyptic Literature Says about the Time After the End-Time
- Warriors, Wives, and Wisdom: This World and the World to Come in the (So-Called) Apocrypha
- The Afterlife in the Septuagint
- Rabbi Akiva, Other Martyrs, and Socrates: On Life, Death, and Life After Life
- Heaven on Earth: The World to Come and Its (Dis)locations
- Olam Ha-ba in Rabbinic Literature: A Functional Reading
- Dining In(to) the World to Come
- 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 ben Asher's Shulhan Shel Arba
- The Dybbuk: The Origins and History of a Concept
- Tasting Heaven: Wine and the World to Come from the Talmud to Safed
- Worlds to Come Between East and West: Immortality and the Rise of Modern Jewish Thought
- Emmanuel Levinas's Messianism and the World to Come: A Gnostic-Philosophical Reading of Tractate Sanhedrin 96b-99a.