Yemeni-Jewish Expert on the Old testament Mike M. Joseph Takes Aim at Jewish Concept of the Afterlife

Mike M. Joseph, a prolific writer, lecturer, and expert on the Old Testament, published “Sorry! There is No Afterlife! None Goes to Heaven or Hell!” (AuthorHouse, 2008).
 
This 300-plus page book might not look like a ponderous read but is really the opposite. In this book, the author disproves the afterlife beliefs of the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
 
Guess what primary source he used in probing – and disproving – their concepts about the afterlife, heaven, and hell? Their respective “Holy Books,” namely the Bible and the Qur’an.
 
Armed with his devotion to the Bible and his prowess in modern and biblical Hebrew, Joseph investigates how the belief in the afterlife made its ways into the Jewish religion.
 
“Most Jews, including rabbis, believe it or not, do not know how and when the doctrine of the immortal soul has been ‘planted’ in the heart and mind of the Jewish community,” said the author in his book. “They do not know when the doctrines of Heaven and Hell or the ‘afterlife’ were first taught in a Jewish synagogue or school of learning.”
 
Joseph assert: “No Torah-obedient Jew had ever believed, in the pre-Second Temple era, in the doctrines of Heaven and Hell; in the teaching and belief about the ‘afterlife’ immediately after death…All these fables were first introduced into the psyche of the Jewish community around the middle of the first century – and mostly after the destruction of the Second Temple by Rome.”
 
The author traces the incorporation of afterlife beliefs into the Jewish religion to Philo Judeus, a philosopher who lived in Alexandria, a major site of a flourishing Jewish community, around 20 B.C.E.-50 C.E.). Philo embraced Plato’s concept of the immortality of the soul and introduced his ‘understanding’ of the ‘immortality of the soul’ to liberal Jewish believers in Alexandria.
 
“Jerusalem and the rest of the Jewish community did not accept this teaching for many years to come,” said the author. “Yet, gradually, the whole Jewish community ‘fell for it,’ and to this day most believe those teachings to be Biblically oriented.”
 
Believers who are not afraid to challenge their long-held beliefs about the afterlife should read “Sorry! There is No Afterlife! None Goes to Heaven or Hell!”
 
Copies are available at AuthorHouse, Amazon, and the author’s website theoldandnewtestamentsbymmj.com/order/
 
Mike M. Joseph is also the author of the following books: “Middle East: Blueprint for the Final Solution: The Coming Fall and Rise of Western Democracy,” “Seven Laws of Successful Correction and Rehabilitation: A Case Against Prison,” “Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: The Hoax Of The Millennium!,” and “Conspiracy Against Divine Sexuality: It All Started in Eden.” Readers could view them at theoldandnewtestamentsbymmj.com/book/ 
 
Sorry! There is No Afterlife! None Goes to Heaven or Hell!
Written by Mike M. Joseph
Published by AuthorHouse
Published date: October 28, 2008
Paperback price: $22.30
 
About the Author
 
Mike M. Joseph was born in 1944 to an Orthodox Jewish family in British colony in Aden, Yemen.  His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 after the pogrom against the Jews by the Arabs.  Later the author lived in Paris, France and then moved to New York.  After 5 years a change of heart led the author to follow a group who believed in both Old and New Testament and relocated to California.  After graduating from college with a B.A. in Theology he joined the ministry and wrote many articles and 5 books.

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