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As resurrection increased in its reception among a range of groups within the second century BCE, it did so against a cultural backdrop in which other attitudes toward death already occupied a traditional role within Jewish society. The present chapter examines the rationale for denial of an afterlife. Jews who resisted hope in an afterlife viewed life and death within the creation differently; they valued the continuity of the Jewish people on earth; and they held differing claims about divine justice. Negations of the afterlife were not the minority view of a narrow aristocratic cadre of Sadducees, but had strong and widespread precedents in earlier tradition. Reconstructing the rationale of denial helps to set the resurrection hope into deeper contextual relief: those who affirmed resurrection advanced a more insurgent and controversial theodicy that posed inherent contradictions with earlier tradition.
Title: Denial
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As resurrection increased in its reception among a range of groups within the second century BCE, it did so against a cultural backdrop in which other attitudes toward death already occupied a traditional role within Jewish society.
The present chapter examines the rationale for denial of an afterlife.
Jews who resisted hope in an afterlife viewed life and death within the creation differently; they valued the continuity of the Jewish people on earth; and they held differing claims about divine justice.
Negations of the afterlife were not the minority view of a narrow aristocratic cadre of Sadducees, but had strong and widespread precedents in earlier tradition.
Reconstructing the rationale of denial helps to set the resurrection hope into deeper contextual relief: those who affirmed resurrection advanced a more insurgent and controversial theodicy that posed inherent contradictions with earlier tradition.
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