Mark Finney

Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife (eBook, PDF)

Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifes trajectories of thought in antiquity on immortality and the afterlife in which both Judaism and Christianity changed from positing afterlife scenarios of the soul alone, to ones which insisted on-in the case of Christianity, to the point of being theological orthodoxy-the necessity of a post-mortem physical body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317236375
• Artikelnr.: 44782743

Autorenporträt

Mark Finney is Lecturer in Religion in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. My recent publications include, Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World (T&T Clark, 2012). My research interests include: concepts of afterlife in Jewish and Christian traditions and conflict and violence in the Abrahamic faiths.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Afterlife in Antiquity: Post-mortem Existence in its
Greco-Roman Context 2. Biblical Beginnings: Death and Afterlife in the
Hebrew Bible 3. The Priority of the Soul: Constructions of Afterlife in
Second Temple Judaism 4. Life after Death in Additional Jewish Literature:
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Rabbinic Thought 5. New Testament
Beginnings: Afterlife in the Thought of the Apostle Paul 6. The Priority of
the Body: Post-mortem Existence in the Later New Testament 7. The Rise of
Gehenna: Afterlife in Early Christianity 8. What the...? Developments of
Hell in its Jewish and Christian Contexts 9. Conclusion