The Death of Death - (Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought) by Neil Gillman

About the Book

Combines astute scholarship with keen historical, theological and liturgical insights to outline the evolution of Jewish thought about bodily resurrection and spiritual immortality. A strikingly innovative statement on resurrection and immortality

Book Synopsis

Combines astute scholarship with keen historical, theological and liturgical insights to outline the evolution of Jewish thought about bodily resurrection and spiritual immortality. A strikingly innovative statement on resurrection and immortality

Review Quotes

"Enables us to recover our tradition's understanding of the afterlife and breaks through the silence of modern Jewish thought on immortality.... A work of major significance."
-Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, president, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

"With a unique blend of erudition and clarity, Rabbi Gillman guides us through almost three millennia of evolving thought.... He has endowed his readers with a great scholar's testament.... In a highly personal way, this remarkable book serves as a convincing demonstration that wisdom is not incompatible with passion, when they are united by faith."
-Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, author, How We Die; Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale University

"A model of using textual and historical studies to provide new insights into contemporary religious issues."
-Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Chicago Divinity School; author, In the Wake of the Goddesses

"Why is it good for me as a Christian to read The Death of Death? ... To read about such matters in a Jewish key is to allow 'like and unlike' to become a stimulant to my faith."
-Rt. Rev. Krister Stendah, former dean of Harvard Divinity School; Bishop Emeritus of Stockholm