SLSL dealing with death

[Prudencio Aguilar]

Overall, Levine is a sympathetic character. He thinks
of himself as a "Wandering Jew." The story of the
"wandering Jew" is a modern Christian story and it is
anti-Semitic.  Rizzon, the intellectual in the
Company, distorts the parable of Jesus and  says that
Levine casts himself on to arid soil.  The parable has
to do with communication-listening to the word of God.
It is also about Grace. But it is not about the
afterlife. The biblical writings have no theology
about the after life or death. The Old Testament and
New Testament are radically secular in that their main
concern is with history. History in both recounts the
self-manifestation of God in the lives of men. The
books are to be read as the interpretation and
judgement of human events in the light of man's
highest aspirations-which the Hebraic tradition viewed
as the Will of God for men. Extra-historicals, life
after death, death itself, are not the subject matter
of the Testaments. The modern Christian selects a few
specific passages from these books and distorts them
for his purpose, but an interpretation of the few
passages that deal with death must be read very
carefully, the historical context must be considered.
Point is, like the Wandering Jew," the afterlife and
death stuff is not Hebraic nor is it Ancient
Christian, it is Modern Christian. 

"Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither
scriptures nor the power of God?"

Jesus, Mark 12

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