Journey to Heaven pdf free download. My interest in the next world awakened during my career as a scholar in Bible and Jewish studies. Often, when preparing for lectures, I would note that many scriptural commentators insisted that the Bible contained no references to the afterlife until the book of Daniel. This gave me pause on the spiritual level. I couldn’t understand how Israel could be described as “the people of God” and at the same time believe that everything came to a halt with one’s death. It also caused my intellectual antennae to quiver and piqued me to take a closer look at the subject as a textual matter.
Journey to Heaven pdf free download
Couldn’t there be other biblical passages that alluded, however obliquely, to the question of what happens after death? When I began to explore this matter, I discovered a number of allusions to a life hereafter in the Hebrew Bible. That led me to pursue the question of the afterlife throughout Jewish textual history: in the writings of the Second Temple period; in the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud; in medieval and mystical works; and in the commentaries and writings of the modern era. I found that Judaism has a great deal to say about what happens after we die. Eventually it became important to me to set down those ideas in a systematic way, and it is from that impulse that this book arises.
Journey to Heaven pdf free download
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