Journey to Heaven: Exploring Jewish Views of the Afterlife
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9655240479 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat . Bronner is to be congratulated for giving us the challenge and the comfort of the fruits of her scholarship. Is it bodily resurrection or immortality of the soul, reincarnation or transmigration? Leila Bronner has written a fascinating analysis of the afterlife in Judaism, tracing its mysteries from earliest biblical textsto post-Holocaust views. --Professor Bezalel Porten, The Hebrew University of JerusalemIn her compelling and widely encompassing Journey to Heaven, Bronner succeeds in elucidating an area in which many angels feared to tread. Since death touches each of us throughout our lives and eventually brings every one
Beginning with the Bible’s references to Sheol and its allusions to resurrection, this survey explores immortality and bodily resurrection in Second Temple literature; the Mishnah’s discussions of olam ha-ba, or the world to come, and how to merit entry into it; and the Talmud’s depictions of paradise and hell, and the soul’s journey through these metaphysical landscapes. This absorbing study demonstrates that the afterlife is indeed a vital part of Judaism as it reveals how generations of Jews, from biblical times to the present, have grappled with the core ideas and beliefs about the hereafter.. A number of the basic tenets of Jewish belief regarding the afterlife, resurrection, immortality, judgment, messianism, and the world to come are laid out in this fascinating and accessible volume. The book also explores the views of medieval scholars such as Maimonides and Nahmanides, Jewish mystical teachings about reincarnation, and modern views of faith and belief, as well as the evolving view of the Messiah over the course of Jewish history
"Joruney through Jewish though on the Afterlife" according to R Safman. This fascinating book traces the journey that Jewish thought has taken since biblical times in its understanding of what happens after we die. The writing is both elegant and clear, with the author's formidable erudition presented in a manner that's remarkably easy to understand for the layperson, whether he or she is Jewish, Christian, agnostic or simply curious.Journey to Heaven starts by examining the earliest references to resurrection in the Hebrew Bible. From there, it moves on,. A view that the afterlife is a biblical teaching Many scholars take the position that no book of the Hebrew Bible, with the possible exception of the late second century BCE Daniel 12:2-3, speaks about life after death, and are convinced that the various ideas about the after-life were taken from pagan notions. Daniel states that "those who sleep in the dust will awake." This may refer to the people as a whole who will be able to defeat their Syrian Greek oppressors and be a free nation again. Be this as it may, the second century B. xploring Jewwish views of heaven Very informative concerning the subject!
She is the author of several books, including From Eve to Esther: Rabbinic Reconstructions of Biblical Women and Stories of Biblical Mothers: Maternal Power in the Hebrew Bible. Leila Leah Bronner is a noted community activist, professor and writer. She is a former professor of Bible and Jewish history at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, as well as former visiting scholar a