Final judgement and the dead in medieval Jewish thought /

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Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer Hasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead and the afterlife that took place between the rabbinic period and medieval times. She reveals that a huge inf...

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The Dead of Sefer Hasidim --
The Dangerous Dead --
The Sinful Dead --
The Holy Dead --
The Neutral Dead and the Pietist Dead --
The Afterlife in Sefer Hasidim --
Status in the Hereafter --
On Sin, Penance, and Purgation --
Bonds Between the Living and the Dead --
Bonds Between the Living and the Dead II --
Conclusion.
1. Verfasser:
Weissman, Susan
Körperschaft:
Liverpool University Press (associated with work.)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2021.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer Hasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead and the afterlife that took place between the rabbinic period and medieval times. She reveals that a huge influx of Germano-Christian beliefs, customscand fears relating to the dead and the afterlife seeped into medieval Ashkenazi society amongst both elite and popular groups. In matters of sin, penance, and posthumous punishment, the infiltration of Christian notions was so strong as to effect a radical departure in Pietist thinking from rabbinic thought and to spur outright contradiction to talmudic principles regarding the realm of the hereafter.
Umfang:
1 online resource (456 pages).
Anmerkungen:
Published in association with Liverpool University Press.
Previously issued in print: 2020.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-80085-108-1
1-78962-429-0
Schlagworte:
Judah ben Samuel, > approximately 1150-1217. > Sefer ḥasidim.
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