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Death And Its Beyond In Early Judaism And Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Adem Irmak Mar 2011

Death And Its Beyond In Early Judaism And Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Adem Irmak

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Afterlife and the concept of soul in Judaism is one of the main subjects that are discussed in the academia. There are some misassumptions related to hereafter and the fate of the soul after departing the body in Judaism. Since the Hebrew Bible does not talk about the death and afterlife clearly, some average people and some scholars claim that there is nothing relevant to the hereafter. However, in this study I put the Hebrew Bible to conversation with ancient cult of the dead and Medieval Jewish philosophers Saadya Gaon and Yehuda Halevi to proof the existence of afterlife and …