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Transience, Transcendence, and Timelessness - Insights from Early Jewish Literature

English · Hardback

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About the author

Nicholas P. L. Allen
, North-West University, South Africa, and
Jacob J. Th. Doedens
, Pápai Református Teológiai Akadémia, Hungary.

Summary

Transience and death are central concerns for many people. Indeed, the fear of death and the attempts to counter it have underscored the worldview of human cultures and civilisations since time immemorial. However, in order to fear death, we must be human. Only humans seem to focus on their transient state because they are constantly aware of their impending deaths.As Robert Burton once suggested, perhaps the “fear of death is worse than death.”
 Religion has had a highly influential impact on the human understanding of death. In this context, inter alia, biblical texts have expounded the notion that death is not to be feared because of a divine promise of a transcendent, paradisical and timeless existence beyond the grave. Anthropologists such as Bronisław Malinowski have gone as far as to suggest that religion only originated as a direct consequence of belief systems that were designed specifically to reduce and/or overcome this universal fear of death.

 Accordingly,
Transience, Transcendence and Timelessness: Insights into Early Jewish Literature
proposes to explore the mortality of humans and their hope for future life from an ancient Jewish perspective

 

Product details

Assisted by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen (Editor), Jacob Johannes Theodoor Doedens (Editor), Johannes Theodoor Doede (Editor), Nicholas Peter Legh Allen (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.12.2025
 
EAN 9783119149174
ISBN 978-3-11-914917-4
No. of pages 410
Weight 751 g
Illustrations 18 b/w ill., 9 b/w tbl., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity

Judentum, Transzendenz, Zeitlosigkeit, Judaism, Apokryphen (Bibel), Transcendence, timelessness, Transcience

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