{"product_id":"final-judgement-and-the-dead-susan-weissman-9781906764975","title":"Final Judgement and the Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought","description":"Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer hasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead and the afterlife that took place between the rabbinic period and medieval times. She reveals that a huge influx of Germano-Christian beliefs, customs, and fears relating to the dead and the afterlife seeped into medieval Ashkenazi society among both elite and popular groups. In matters of sin, penance, and posthumous punishment, the infiltration of Christian notions was so strong as to effect a radical departure in Pietist thinking from rabbinic thought and to spur outright contradiction of talmudic principles regarding the realm of the hereafter. Although it is primarily a study of the culture of a medieval Jewish enclave, this book demonstrates how seminal beliefs of medieval Christendom and monastic ideals could take root in a society with contrary religious values-even in the realm of doctrinal belief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Weissman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1906764972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781906764975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in Ass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Weissman is Chair of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor at Lander College for Women, Touro College and University System.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Weissman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43984471228671,"sku":"9781906764975","price":64.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c81b4f30-fd88-430c-ae6d-ef7e99041d57.jpg?v=1683272497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/final-judgement-and-the-dead-susan-weissman-9781906764975","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}