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Ausgabe:

Oktober/2014

Spalte:

1131–1132

Kategorie:

Judaistik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Nicklas, Tobias, Verheyden, Joseph, Eynikel, Erik M. M., and Florentino García Martínez [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World. Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2010. XI, 402 S. m. Abb. = Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 143. Lw. EUR 141,00. ISBN 978-90-04-18626-2.

Rezensent:

Gerbern S. Oegema

This collection of essays asks the ancient Jewish and Christian texts and images about another world: Is there a future after death and what does this future look like? What kind of life can we expect, and in what kind of world? Is there another, hopefully better world than the one we live in? The articles collected in this volume, all written by leading experts in the field, deal with the question how ancient Jewish and Christian authors describe »otherworldly places and situations«. They investigate why various forms of texts were created to address the questions above, how these texts functioned, and how they have to be understood. It is shown how ancient de- scriptions of the »otherworld« are taking over and reworking existing motifs, forms and genres, but also that they mirror ...


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