Life after death : a history of the afterlife in the religions of the West /
Publisher's description: A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die. In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Al...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Anchor Bible reference library.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The undiscover'd country
- pt. 1. The climate of immortality. Egypt
- Mesopotamia and Canaan
- The First Temple Period in Israel
- pt. 2. From climate to the self. Iranian views of the afterlife and ascent to the heavens
- Greek and classical views of life after death and ascent to the heavens
- Second Temple Judaism : the rise of a beatific afterlife in the Bible
- pt. 3. Visions of resurrection and the immortality of the soul. Apocalypticism and millenarianism : the social backgrounds to the martyrdoms in Daniel and Qumran
- Religiously interpreted states of consciousness : prophecy, self-consciousness, and life after death
- Sectarian life in New Testament times
- pt. 4. The path to modern views of the afterlife. Paul's vision of the afterlife
- The Gospels in contrast to Paul's writings
- The pseudepigraphic literature
- The Church Fathers and their opponents
- The early rabbis
- Islam and the afterlife : Muslim, Christian, and Jewish fundamentalism
- Afterword : Immortal longings.
