LITERATURE

A) Scope of Article:

B) Dr. Charles' Work:

C) Individual Religion in Israel.

I. Fundamental Ideas.

1. Idea of God:

2. Idea of Man:

Body, Soul and Spirit.

3. Sin and Death:

II. Conceptions of the Future Life -- Sheol.

1. Reserve on This Subject: Hopes and Promises Largely Temporal:

2. A Future State not Therefore Denied:

Belief Non-Mythological.

3. Survival of Soul, or Conscious Part:

4. The Hebrew Sheol:

III. The Religious Hope -- Life and Resurrection.

a) Nature and Grace -- Moral Distinctions:

b) Religious Hope of Immortality:

1. Sheol, Like Death, Connected with Sin:

2. Religious Root of Hope of Immortality:

3. Hope of Resurrection:

(1) Not a Late or Foreign Doctrine.

(2) The Psalms.

(3) The Book of Job.

(4) The Prophets.

(5) Daniel -- Resurrection of Wicked.

IV. The Idea of Judgment -- the Day of Yahweh.

Judgment a Present Reality:

1. Day of Yahweh:

(1) Relation to Israel.

(2) To the Nations.

2. Judgment beyond Death:

(1) Incompleteness of Moral Administration.

(2) Prosperity of Wicked.

(3) Suffering of Righteous with Wicked.

3. Retribution beyond Death:

V. Later Jewish Conceptions -- Apocryphal, Apocalyptic, Rabbinical.

1. Sources:

(1) Apocrypha.

(2) Apocalyptic Literature.

(3) Rabbinical Writings.

2. Description of Views:

(1) Less Definite Conceptions.

(2) Ideas of Sheol.

(3) The Fallen Angels.

(4) Resurrection.

(5) Judgment.

The Messiah:

(6) The Messianic Age and the Gentiles.

(7) Rabbinical Ideas.

LITERATURE.