Final Judgement and the Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought

✍ Scribed by Susan Weissman

Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 457
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer hasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead and the afterlife that took place between the rabbinic period and medieval times. She reveals that a
huge influx of Germano-Christian beliefs, customs, and fears relating to the dead and the afterlife seeped into medieval Ashkenazi society among both elite and popular groups. In matters of sin, penance, and posthumous punishment, the infiltration of Christian notions was so strong as to effect a
radical departure in Pietist thinking from rabbinic thought and to spur outright contradiction of talmudic principles regarding the realm of the hereafter. Although it is primarily a study of the culture of a medieval Jewish enclave, this book demonstrates how seminal beliefs of medieval Christendom
and monastic ideals could take root in a society with contrary religious values-even in the realm of doctrinal belief.

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