Abstract
The book Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish and Christian Antiquity, edited by Thomas R. Hatina and Jiří Lukeš, is a collective monograph focused on the analysis of ancient texts from the Old Testament, New Testament, apocryphal and pseudepigraphical texts, both Christian and Jewish, as well as ancient Egypt, through the lens of social memory theory.
The theme is defined by the issue of an afterlife. The book includes a comprehensive hermeneutical introduction, which also addresses the problems of the texts under study and the period in question.
The international team of authors has been carefully selected and are specialists who have been working on the issue for a long time and have presented their papers at the conferences of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver (2018) and Charles University in Prague (2019). Contributions to the collective monograph were written by C.
C. Broyles, J.
Janák and M. Sommer, D.
Cielontko, A. Le Donne, K.
R. L.
Parsons, F. S.
Tappenden, S. Huebenthal, J.
Lukeš, T. Nicklas, Ch.
Handschuh, Z. Crook, S.
Talené and T. R.
Hatina. Apart from the "Introduction" (T.R. Hatina and J.
Lukeš), the publication is divided into three parts I. Afterlife in Ancient Judaism, II.
Afterlife in Early Christianity and III. Hermeneutics and Memory.
The publication forms the eighth volume of the prestigious Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible series published by Brill/Schöningh. More can be found in the link: https://www.schoeningh.de/edcollbook/title/63234?rskey=BbQ4dG&result=1.