Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

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Thomas R. Hatina
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Jiří Lukeš
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Thomas R. Hatina
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Jiří Lukeš
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Christian Handschuh
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Frederick S. Tappenden
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Jiri Janak
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Michael Sommer
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Zeba Crook
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Tobias Nicklas
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Anthony Le Donne
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Brad Anderson
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Stu Talane
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Sandra Huebenthal
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Kyle Parsons
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Craig C. Broyles
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Why are conceptions of afterlife so diverse in both Jewish and Christian antiquity? This collection of essays offers explanations for this diversity through the lens of social memory theory. The contributors attempt to understand how and why received traditions about the afterlife needed to be altered, invented and even forgotten if they were to have relevance in the present. Select ancient texts conveying the hopes and fears of the afterlife are viewed as products of transmission processes that appropriated the past in conformity with identity constructs of each community. The range of literature in this collection spans from the earliest receptions of Israelite traditions within early Judaism to the Patristic/Rabbinic period.
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Thomas R. Hatina, Ph.D., is Professor, Department Chair, and Director of the Religious Studies Graduate Program at Trinity Western University in Canada. He is also Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Jiří Lukeš, Ph.D., is Lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies and Judaism at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Brill | Schöningh
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English
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XIV + 391 Seiten, 4 s/w Abb., 11 s/w Tabellen
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796212