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Title: Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament By: Philip S. Johnston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Vendor: InterVarsity Press Publication Date: 2002 | Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.5 (inches) Weight: 12 ounces ISBN: 0830826874 ISBN-13: 9780830826872 Stock No: WW26871 |
"For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?" (Psalm 6:5)
Philip S. Johnston explores these and other issues. He examines Israelite views on death and afterlife as reflected in the Hebrew Bible and in material remains, and sets them in their cultural, literary and theological contexts. Johnston argues in detail that the Israelites were not as preoccupied with the underworld or the dead as some scholars have recently alleged. Instead, their faith that Yahweh was the God of the living, and that Sheol was cut off from him, led eventually to the hope of a positive afterlife. This important study sheds fresh light on Israelite beliefs in an area central to the later development of the Christian faith.
Philip S. Johnston is director of studies in theology and religious studies and senior tutor at Hughes Hall, Cambridge. He has taught at Belfast, St. Andrews and Oxford. He has published studies of Israelite afterlife beliefs, and has an interest in Israel past and present--along with a commitment to reconciliation. His other books include Les Psaumes, Interpreting the Psalms (coeditor with David Firth), Shades of Sheol and The Land of Promise (coeditor with Peter Walker).
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