Life after Death in Early Judaism: The Evidence of Josephus.(Book review)

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Life after Death in Early Judaism: The Evidence of Josephus, by C. D. Elledge. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. 224 pp. [euro]44.00.

This book is a revision and expansion of portions of the author's dissertation, written under Prof. James Charlesworth at Princeton Theological Seminary (2001). It contains five chapters; two appendices which provide, first, a comparison between Josephus and Hippolytus on life after death, and then, the Greek passages of Josephus on the afterlife discussed in this study; an extensive bibliography; and indices of ancient sources and modern authors. ...

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