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Afterlife
(2,000 words)
1. Term Ideas about life after death are to be found among nearly all peoples and in nearly every era. Yet, like its counterpart
Diesseits (“this life”), the term
Jenseits (“afterlife”, literally “the beyond”) in German has only existed since the turn of the 18th century. The noun
Jenseits is only found, sporadically, in sources from the late 18th century, e.g. in the exclamation in Schiller’s
Die Räuber (1781;
The Robbers): “Sei wie du willst, namenloses Jenseits, wenn ich nur mich selbst mit hinübernehme” (“Be what you will, nameless World Beyond, as long as…
Date:
2019-10-14
