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{en} Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament (2006) is a book by Jaime Clark-Soles.

Abstract

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Published in New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2006.

Contents

Introduction -- I. Backgrounds : -- 1. Death and afterlife in ancient Judaisms -- Postmortem existence in the OT : Sheol -- The formation of heaven and hell -- Functions of divine judgment in OT texts -- Greco-Roman material -- 2. Paul : the ethics of death and afterlife : -- Six main points -- Paul's background and chronology -- Introduction to Pauline anthropology -- The promises and puzzles of 1 Cor. 15, Paul's "classic" statement -- On 2 Cor 5:1-10, and Phil 1:18b-26 -- 3. Death and afterlife in the Fourth Gospel : -- Part 1. A conversation with John A.T. Robinson : The composition of human beings -- The fate of human beings -- Part 2. "That to philosophize is to learn to die" : --The problem of death -- The problem of death in the Fourth Gospel -- The Fourth Gospel and Epicureanism -- 4. Death and afterlife in Matthew : -- Matthew's community -- Matthew's cosmology -- Matthean anthropology -- Comparing anthropological languages -- Language of death and destruction -- Eschatological scenario -- 5. Death and afterlife in the Petrine texts : -- Introduction to 1 Peter -- Death and afterlife in 1 Peter -- Death and afterlife in 2 Peter -- 6. Conclusions and directions for further research.

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