Social memory theory and conceptions of afterlife in Jewish and Christian antiquity
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 alter...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston Singapore Paderborn Vienna
Brill, Schöningh
[2023]
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Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible (volume 8)
Year: 2023 |
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible
volume 8 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Early Judaism
/ Church
/ Belief in the hereafter
/ Collective memory
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B philosophy of religion B Theology and World Christianity |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben Beruht auf mehreren Konferenzen 2017 und 2018 (Preface) |
| ISBN: | 3657796215 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/9783657796212 |