Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.

Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary material / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner -- THE FOUR APPROACHES TO THE DESCRIPTION OF ANCIENT JUDAISM(S): NOMINALIST, HARMONISTIC, THEOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL / Jacob Neusner -- DEATH AND AFTERLIFE: THE BIBLICAL SILENCE / Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky Overton -- DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE PSALMS / John Goldingay -- MEMORY AS IMMORTALITY: COUNTERING THE DREADED “DEATH AFTER DEATH” IN ANCIENT ISRAELITE SOCIETY / Brian B. Schmidt -- DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE WISDOM LITERATURE / Roland E. Murphy -- THE AFTERLIFE IN APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE / John J. Collins -- JUDGMENT, LIFE-AFTER-DEATH, AND RESURRECTION IN THE APOCRYPHA AND THE NONAPOCALYPTIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- ESCHATOLOGY IN PHILO AND JOSEPHUS / Lester L. Grabbe -- DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND LIFE AFTER DEATH IN THE QUMRAN SCROLLS / Philip R. Davies -- RESURRECTION IN THE GOSPELS / Bruce Chilton -- DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE EARLY RABBINIC SOURCES: THE MISHNAH, TOSEFTA, AND EARLY MIDRASH COMPILATIONS / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN THE LATER RABBINIC SOURCES: THE TWO TALMUDS AND ASSOCIATED MIDRASH-COMPILATIONS / Jacob Neusner -- DEATH AND AFTERLIFE: THE INSCRIPTIONAL EVIDENCE / Leonard V. Rutgers -- THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND THE SOURCES OF THE PALESTINIAN TARGUMS TO THE PENTATEUCH / Paul V.M. Flesher -- GENERAL INDEX / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL AND ANCIENT REFERENCES / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner -- HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.

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Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in the literary evidence for late antique Judaism. The volume covers the vie w of Scripture as a whole as against other Israelite writings; distinct parts of Scripture such as Psalms and the Wisdom literature; apocalyptic and the non-apocalyptic pseudepigraphic literature, Philo; Josephus; the Dead Sea Scrolls; earliest Christianity (the Gospels in particular); the Rabbinic sources; the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch; and, out of material culture, the inscriptional evidence. The result is both to highlight the range of available perspectives on this important issue and to illuminate a central problem in the study of Judaism in late antiquity, phrased neatly as “One Judaism or many?” Here we place on display indicative components of Judaism in their full diversity, leaving it for readers to determine whether the notion of a single, coherent religion falls under the weight of a mass of documentary contradictions or whether an inner harmony shines forth from a repertoire of largely shared and only superficially-diverse data.