Funny listening to these xtian fuckwits talk about the Jews and "heaven."
They were exceedingly late to adopt the concept.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/....shtml?p=2
They were exceedingly late to adopt the concept.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/....shtml?p=2
Quote:However, with repeated military defeats and episodes of exile and dislocation culminating in the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Jewish thinkers began to lose hope in any immediate change, instead investing greater expectations in a messianic future and in life after death. This was coupled with the introduction into Judaism of Hellenistic notions of the division of the material, perishable body and the spiritual, eternal soul.
The catastrophe of 70 CE caused a theological crisis. How could it be that the God of Israel would simply allow His sanctuary to be destroyed and His people to be vanquished at the hands of the Roman Empire? While the rabbis often claimed that it was the Israelites' sinfulness that led God to allow it to be defeated (mi-p'nei hataeinu, "because of our sins"), it was more difficult to explain why good and decent individual Jews were made to suffer.
