TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hatina, Thomas R.
ED  - Lukeš, Jiří
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Social memory theory and conceptions of afterlife in Jewish and Christian antiquity
T3  - Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible volume 8
PB  - Brill, Schöningh
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Theology and World Christianity
KW  - Philosophy of Religion
AB  - 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
SN  - 9783657796212
UR  - https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/63234
UR  - https://brill.com/view/title/63234
UR  - https://brill.com/doi/10.30965/9783657796212
UR  - http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3143f8d46b4245f198647d23b80f131a&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
UR  - https://www.brill.com/abstract/title/63234
UR  - https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796212
DO  - 10.30965/9783657796212
LA  - English
N1  - Thomas R. Hatina, Jiří Lukeš (Eds.)
ID  - 1830790285
ER  -