Judaism in late antiquity. / Part 4, : Death, life-after-death, resurrection and the world-to-come in the Judaisms of antiquity / / edited by Alan Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.

• Superior document: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, Band 49 = Handbook of Oriental Studies, The Near and Middle East
• TeilnehmendeR: Avery-Peck, Alan J. 1953-; Neusner, Jacob, 1932-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 2000.; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Band 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 pages).
• Notes: Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.; Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton.

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 Psal...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• THE FOUR APPROACHES TO THE DESCRIPTION OF ANCIENT JUDAISM(S): NOMINALIST, HARMONISTIC, THEOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL / Jacob Neusner
• DEATH AND AFTERLIFE: THE BIBLICAL SILENCE / Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky Overton
• DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE PSALMS / John Goldingay
• MEMORY AS IMMORTALITY: COUNTERING THE DREADED “DEATH AFTER DEATH” IN ANCIENT ISRAELITE SOCIETY / Brian B. Schmidt
• DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE WISDOM LITERATURE / Roland E. Murphy
• THE AFTERLIFE IN APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE / John J. Collins
• JUDGMENT, LIFE-AFTER-DEATH, AND RESURRECTION IN THE APOCRYPHA AND THE NONAPOCALYPTIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA / George W.E. Nickelsburg
• ESCHATOLOGY IN PHILO AND JOSEPHUS / Lester L. Grabbe
• DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND LIFE AFTER DEATH IN THE QUMRAN SCROLLS / Philip R. Davies
• RESURRECTION IN THE GOSPELS / Bruce Chilton
• DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE EARLY RABBINIC SOURCES: THE MISHNAH, TOSEFTA, AND EARLY MIDRASH COMPILATIONS / Alan J. Avery-Peck
• DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE LATER RABBINIC SOURCES: THE TWO TALMUDS AND ASSOCIATED MIDRASH-COMPILATIONS / Jacob Neusner
• DEATH AND AFTERLIFE: THE INSCRIPTIONAL EVIDENCE / Leonard V. Rutgers
• THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND THE SOURCES OF THE PALESTINIAN TARGUMS TO THE PENTATEUCH / Paul V.M. Flesher
• GENERAL INDEX / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• INDEX OF BIBLICAL AND ANCIENT REFERENCES / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.