Olam ha-zeh v'olam ha-ba this world and the world to come in Jewish belief and practice

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: Klutznick-Harris Symposium (-), Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies
Otros Autores: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press [2017]
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Studies in Jewish civilization ; volume 28.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45943643*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.