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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784750803321

Autore

Himmelfarb Martha <1952->

Titolo

Ascent to heaven in Jewish and Christian apocalypses [[electronic resource] /] / Martha Himmelfarb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-773825-7

1-280-52676-9

0-19-535965-8

1-4294-0120-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Disciplina

229/.913

Soggetti

Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism

Voyages to the otherworld in literature

Heaven

Angels in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.