02620nam 2200637Ia 450 991078475080332120230421044719.00-19-773825-71-280-52676-90-19-535965-81-4294-0120-6(CKB)1000000000402242(EBL)271018(OCoLC)191952811(SSID)ssj0000106307(PQKBManifestationID)11132843(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106307(PQKBWorkID)10109477(PQKB)10436593(Au-PeEL)EBL271018(CaPaEBR)ebr10142177(CaONFJC)MIL52676(OCoLC)936849289(MiAaPQ)EBC271018(EXLCZ)99100000000040224219921007d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAscent to heaven in Jewish and Christian apocalypses[electronic resource] /Martha HimmelfarbNew York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (184 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508203-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161) and index.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; ZThis 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.Apocalyptic literatureHistory and criticismVoyages to the otherworld in literatureHeavenAngels in literatureApocalyptic literatureHistory and criticism.Voyages to the otherworld in literature.Heaven.Angels in literature.229/.913Himmelfarb Martha1952-772854MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784750803321Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses1729485UNINA