Final judgement and the dead in Medieval Jewish thought.
Attitudes to death and the afterlife underwent significant transformation in high medieval Europe. Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer Hasidim, this highly original study discusses the profound Christian influence on a Jewish religious enclave that led to...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
2020.
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Series: | The Littman library of Jewish civilization
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Title Page
- Copyright
- To my husband Allan
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Sources
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I: The Dead Of Sefer Ḥasidim
- 1. The Dangerous Dead
- 2. The Sinful Dead
- 3. The Holy Dead
- 4. The Neutral Dead and the Pietist Dead
- Part II: The Afterlife In Sefer Ḥasidim
- 5. Status in the Hereafter
- 6. On Sin, Penance, and Purgation
- 7. Bonds Between the Living and the Dead I
- 8. Bonds Between the Living and the Dead II
- 9. Conclusion
- Bibliography