Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a unique historical and philosophical study tracing the evolution of ideas about individual postmortem survivial in Judaism. Surveying a far-ranging assortment of texts on life after death in Bible, Apocrypha, Rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval philosophy, medieval legendary Midrash, and the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, this book presents an extensive portrayal of the ever-changing notions of life after death over a period of almost four millenia.
In addition, through a synthesis of Jewish sources with contemporary psychological thought, near-death experiences and consciousness research, Jewish Views of the Afterlife offers a contemporary statement on ways of understanding the afterlife of journey of the soul from a spiritual point of view.
Forward by Reb Zalman |
