ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the close relation between eschatological counter-discourse in the Qur’an and in the Talmud. While the Qur’an insists on condemning the opponents and punishing them, the text of the Sanhedrin principally uses the legitimation of the principle of resurrection, indicating the biblical passages that justify it according to the sages of the Talmud. Sanhedrin is a Talmudic tractate, a peculiarity of which is to use, like the Qur’an, eschatological counter-discourses. The chapter deals with two complementary approaches. The first approach will be an internal analysis of the Qur’an and the Talmud that considers the general structures and themes of eschatological counter-discourses. The second approach will be a comparative and systematic analysis. The Talmud holds to belief that the event of the resurrection is accomplished according to how it is stated in the Torah. For the Qur’an, however, the response on the issue of resurrection insists on the punishment that those who mock resurrection would receive.
