Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.
Contents:
V. 1. Jewish Christian eschatology / Jennifer M. Rosner -- End time and afterlife in Judaism : two readings of the vision of the end of days / Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg -- Caught in the snare of She'ol, but dew gives life to dust / Andries Gideon Van Aarde -- The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon -- Enochic Judaism and the Messiah of the early church : adapted images of heaven, hell, and afterlife / James A. Waddell -- Heaven and hell, angels and demons : the other side in the second temple period / Donald R. Vance -- Heaven, hell, and afterlife int he Dead Sea scrolls and their influences in the New Testament / J. Harold Ellens -- The afterlife in Philo and Josephus / Jason von Ehrenkrook -- Death and future life : a Jewish meditation / Theodore A. Perry -- Jewish Christian eschatology / Jennifer M. Rosner -- Shifting views of heaven, hell, and the afterlife in the second century CE / Deborah Forger -- Near-death experiences and transcendence in Judaism / B. Les Lancaster, Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Cheryl Fracasso -- From spiritual care to religious violence : the liabilities of the afterlife / Joseph M. Kramp -- Hell on earth : corporeal existence as the ultimate punishment of the wicked in Philo of Alexandria and the wisdom of Solomon / Jason M. Zurawski -- v. 2. End time and afterlife in Christianity. Heaven, hell, and the text of the New Testament / Peter R. Rodgers -- Eternal life in John's gospel : it's playing now / Wayne G. Rollins -- The tomb cult of the early Jesus-followers in Jerusalem / Andries Gideon Van Aarde -- When heaven gives you hell : salvation of the soul in the gnostic Christian Gospel of Philip / Bas van Os -- Shifting views of heaven, hell, and the afterlife in the second century CE / Deborah Forger -- Eschatology in African Christian theology / Xolani Sakuba -- Hades, hell, and Sheol : the reception history of the King James version in American fundamentalism / Philip Samuel Browning Helsel -- The history of the King James Bible as a source and response to ecumenical anxiety / Elliot Berger -- Re-membering the body of Christ : historical origins and psychological implications of the doctrine of the communion of saints / Philip Samuel Browning Helsel -- Signposts for heaven : C.S. Lewis, sehnsucht, and the fulfillment of joy / Kevin J. Eames -- The afterlife in fundamentalism / F. Morgan Roberts -- Humanistic Christian ideations on heaven and hell / Jack Hanford -- Popular notions on afterlife in the Christian community / Virginia Ingram -- Eternity in the age of Aquarius : origins and concepts of heaven and hell in the New Age movement / Jeffrey Spence -- Eschatology in African Christian theology / Xolani Sakuba -- Ideas of apocalyptic eschatology in Islam / J. Harold Ellens -- Heaven, hell, and paradise : consciousness research and eschatological mythology / Stanislav Grof -- Do heaven and hell matter? How a Christian perspective on heaven and hell shapes our psychology / Steven A. Rogers -- v. 3. End time and afterlife in Islamic, Buddhist, and indigenous cultures. Ontological expansion of life and its implications : Islam / Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi -- Al-Ghayb wa al-'Akhirah : heaven, hell, and eternity in the Qur'an / Grant R. Shafer -- Muslim attitudes toward near-death experiences, death, and the afterlife / Akbar Husain, Sabira Khan, Stanley Krippner, Cheryl Fracasso, Harris Friedman -- The underworld in Islam compared with Jewish and Christian traditions / J. Harold Ellens -- Ideas of apocalyptic eschatology in Islam / J. Harold Ellens -- Global reflections on heaven, hell, and afterlife in the Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and western worlds John T. Green. Our reach for eternity, now and hereafter, secular and sacred / Richard K. Fenn -- Death, afterlife, and ancestors in Africa / Glenna S. Jackson, Jean Ntahoturi, Mbengu David Nyiawung -- Meaning and destiny : life and afterlife of the aborigines of Australia / Mary Wittbold -- Historic and contemporary American perspectives on aspects of our afterlife / J. Harold Ellens -- Global reflections on heaven, hell, and afterlife in the Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and western worlds (with a note on Buddhism) / John T. Green.
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