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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Levenson, Jon Douglas. Resurrection and the restoration of Israel. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006003113 (OCoLC)63297715 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jon Douglas Levenson |
ISBN: | 9780300135152 0300135157 |
OCLC Number: | 191736109 |
Awards: | Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Scholarship) 2006 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) |
Contents: | The modern Jewish preference for immortality -- Resurrection in the Torah? -- Up from Sheol -- Are Abraham, Moses, and Job in Sheol? -- Intimations of immortality -- Individual mortality and familial resurrection -- The man of God performs a resurrection -- "Death, be broken!" -- The widow re-wed, her children restored -- Israel's exodus from the grave -- The fact of death and the promise of life -- "He keeps faith with those who sleep in the dust" -- God's ultimate victory -- Epilogue: the two horns of the ram. |
Responsibility: | Jon D. Levenson. |
Abstract:
Explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. The author traces the belief in resurrection backward from its undoubted attestations in rabbinic literature and in the "Book of Daniel", showing where the belief stands in continuity with earlier Israelite culture and where it departs from that culture.
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