Rabbi Neil Gillman

The Death of Death

Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Combines astute scholarship with keen historical, theological and liturgical insights to outline the evolution of Jewish thought about bodily resurrection and spiritual immortality. A strikingly innovative statement on resurrection and immortality

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Lights
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781683363552
• ISBN-10: 1683363558
• Artikelnr.: 45374113

Autorenporträt

Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
I The Eschatological Impulse
II The Origins of Death
III Death in the Bible
IV Judaism on the Afterlife: The Early Sources
V The Canonization Of A Doctrine
VI Maimonides: The Triumph Of The Spiritual
VII The Mystical Journey Of The Soul
VIII The Encounter With Modernity
IX The Return To Resurrection
X What Do I Believe?
Notes
For Further Study
Index