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Ascent to heaven in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Martha Himmelfarb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible.
- Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
- Apocalyptic literature.
- Heaven--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Heaven.
- Heaven--Judaism--History of doctrines.
- Local Subjects:
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a comparative study of the ancient Jewish and Christian views of the ascent into heaven. It places the ascent narratives in their cultural and historical context, and explores their relationship to the canonical apocalypses and to other Graeco-Roman literature of ascent and divinization.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From Ezekiel to the Book of the Watchers; 2. Heavenly Ascent and Priestly Investiture; 3. Transformation and the Righteous Dead; 4. The Secrets of Nature, Primeval History, and the Order of the Cosmos; 5. The Apocalypses as Writing; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773825-7
- 1-280-52676-9
- 0-19-535965-8
- 1-4294-0120-6
- OCLC:
- 191952811
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