Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife

This book identifes trajectories of thought in antiquity on immortality and the afterlife in which both Judaism and Christianity changed from positing afterlife scenarios of the soul alone, to ones which insisted on-in the case of Christianity, to the point of being theological orthodoxy-the necessity of a post-mortem physical body.

Introduction 1. Afterlife in Antiquity: Post-mortem Existence in its Greco-Roman Context 2. Biblical Beginnings: Death and Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible 3. The Priority of the Soul: Constructions of Afterlife in Second Temple Judaism 4. Life after Death in Additional Jewish Literature: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Rabbinic Thought 5. New Testament Beginnings: Afterlife in the Thought of the Apostle Paul 6. The Priority of the Body: Post-mortem Existence in the Later New Testament 7. The Rise of Gehenna: Afterlife in Early Christianity 8. What the. . . ? Developments of Hell in its Jewish and Christian Contexts 9. Conclusion