A Jewish View of the Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah Unterman)
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Chapters
- 0:00 Sheol and polytheism
- 1:37 Egyptian versus Hebraic views of the afterlife
- 4:09 Death in the Torah and Psalms
- 6:07 The Necromancer of Endor
- 9:18 Burial and “raising up”
- 13:20 Hellenistic Judaism
- 17:13 The idea of the soul and the world to come
- 21:46 Greek versus Hebrew thought in the Apocrypha
- 24:30 Medieval and Modern Jewish perspectives on the afterlife
- 29:08 Looking at the New Testament
- 33:40 The Talmud on Gehenna
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Dr. Jeremiah Unterman
Jeremiah Unterman (PhD in Near Eastern Studies, Judaica Program at UC, Berkeley) was Adjunct Professor of Bible at Yeshiva University and Director of the Association of Modern Orthodox Day Schools in North America before becoming a Resident Scholar at the Herzl Institute. Dr. Unterman is the author of a book on biblical prophecy, From Repentance to Redemption, and a book on biblical ethics, Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics, as well as numerous scholarly articles.
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