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Jewish Views of the Afterlife
by Simcha Paull Raphael
Raphael traces in a synoptic style 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. From teh Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah and Hasidism, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death thought Jewish history.