Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Eschatology and the Abode of the Dead Chapter 1: Eschatology and the Afterlife Chapter 2: Representations of the Abode of the Dead Part 2: Forms of the Afterlife Experience Chapter 3: Resurrection Chapter 4: The Immortality of the Soul and Angelomorphism Part 3: Can The Various Views of the Afterlife in Luke-Acts be Reconciled? Chapter 5: Interrelations between the Representations of the Afterlife in Luke-Acts Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusions Bibliography Index
Somov shows that the variety of views and religious metaphors which deal with the afterlife in Luke-Acts can be seen to have an internal coherence in Luke's conceptual system.
Alexey Somov is Senior Lecturer of the New Testament at St Philaret Orthodox Christian Institute in Moscow, Russia, Research Fellow at the Department of Old and New Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and Translation Consultant with the Institute for Bible Translation, Russia.
In this extensive and informative book, Somov provides what is
currently the most thorough treatment of Luke’s presentation of the
afterlife ... This book is well-written, interacts with the latest
critical scholarship in the field, while avoiding simplistic
solutions. Thus, it marks perhaps one of the more important
contributions to the study of Luke-Acts so far in the current
century.
*Religious Studies Review*
Alexey Somov has produced a carefully written investigation of the
notion of the afterlife, specifically in Luke-Acts, but he also
advances our understanding of this complex issue among Jews,
Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans in the first centuries BCE and CE.
His research draws helpfully on the most important ancient sources,
beyond the usual listing of sources, and shows considerable
awareness of the most informed and up-to-date secondary literature
as well. The arguments and interpretations of ancient texts are
presented with clarity, balance and fairness. This volume is
helpful in understanding both biblical and and non-biblical notions
of life after death and it will likely become a standard resource
for all subsequent research in this important subject. I highly
recommend this volume.
*Lee Martin McDonald, Acadia University, Canada*
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