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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Beschreibung:
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.