Category Archives: MUST READ

[First posted in 2012; time for a repost.    This recommended read is:  A HISTORY OF THE JEWS by Paul Johnson.   One reviewer, Merle Rubin of Christian Science Monitor says it best:  “An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book, an insightful and impassioned blend of history and myth, story and interpretation”  (highlights added).   I most […]

The Afterlife – A Sober Look – 4

[Continuing the final chapter of Neil Gillman’s book The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought; this is an ebook downloadable on the kindle app from amazon.com, it is worth adding to your personal library; reformatted for posting; highlights ours–Admin1.]     ———————-     THE ARGUMENT FROM ANTHROPOLOGY – I: MY BODY     The death of […]

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The Afterlife – A Sober Look – 3

[Continuing the final chapter of Neil Gillman’s book The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought; this is an ebook downloadable on the kindle app from amazon.com; reformatted for posting.–Admin1]   ——————-     The Theological Argument:  God is more powerful than Death     Ask the typical Jew to describe the nature of God and he or […]

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The Afterlife – A Sober Look – 2

[Continuing the final chapter of Neil Gillman’s book The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought; this is an ebook downloadable on the kindle app from amazon.com; reformatted for posting; highlights ours.—Admin1]. —————————-   Religion and the Afterlife     The impulse to create that broader structure, to knit together the discrete moments of a human life into […]

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