Ascent to heaven in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Martha Himmelfarb.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 171 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 1429401206
- 9781429401203
- 0195359658
- 9780195359657
- 9780195082036
- 0195082036
- 1280526769
- 9781280526763
- Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism
- Voyages to the otherworld in literature
- Heaven
- Angels in literature
- Littérature apocalyptique -- Histoire et critique
- Voyages dans d'autres mondes dans la littérature
- Ciel -- Aspect religieux
- Anges dans la littérature
- heaven
- RELIGION -- Biblical Studies
- Angels in literature
- Apocalyptic literature
- Heaven
- Voyages to the otherworld in literature
- Apocalyptiek
- Hemelvaart
- Judaism Scriptures
- Christianity Scriptures
- 229/.913 20
- BS1705 .H56 1993eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-161) and index.
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.
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.
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