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Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism. Where is God?: divine absence in the Hebrew Bible. Paradise interpreted: representations of biblical paradise in Judaism and Christianity. The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19. ^ Wright 2002, hlm. 52: "The religious ideology promoted in a majority of the texts that now form the Hebrew Bible represent the beliefs of only a small portion of the ancient Israelite community: the late Judean individuals who collected, edited, and transmitted the biblical materials were, for the most part, members of a religious tradition centered in Jerusalem that worshipped the god Yahweh exclusively.".Indeed, the questions under investigation in this book concerning the end of an individual's life, the nature of death, the possibility of divine judgment, and the resultant reward or punishment are simply too crucial to have attracted a single solution unanimously accepted over the near millennium of biblical composition." ^ Bernstein 1996, hlm. 134: "The canon of the Hebrew Bible was formed of diverse writings composed by many men or women over a long period of time, under many different circumstances, and in the light of shifting patterns of religious belief and practice.
