Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions

Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions /

The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found, not only in Judaism and Christianity, but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientifi...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-, Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Subjects:
Heaven > Comparative studies.
Heaven > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Heaven > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Heaven > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Rome > Religion.
Greece > Religion.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'In Heaven as it is on Earth' / Ra'anan S. Bouston, Annette Yoshiko Reed
  • The bridge and the ladder: narrow passages in late antique visions / Fritz Graf
  • 'Heavenly Steps': Manilius 4.119-121 and its background / Katharina Volk
  • Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16 / Annette Yoshiko Reed
  • 'Connecting Heaven and Earth': the function of the hymns in Revelation 4-5 / Gottfried Schimanowski
  • Working overtime in afterlife, or, no rest for the virtuous / Sarah Iles Johnson
  • Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense: the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees / Martha Himmelfarb
  • Who's on the throne? Revelation in the long year / John W. Marshall
  • The earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late antique Egypt / Kirsti B. Copeland
  • Contextualizing heaven in third-century North Africa / Jan N. Bremmer
  • Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth: approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the East-Syrian tradition / Adam H. Becker
  • Angels in the architecture: temple art and the poetics of praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice / Ra'anan S. Bouston
  • The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a late antique 'Appollonian Invocation' (PGM I 262-347) / Christopher A. Faraone
  • In heaven as it is in hell: the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit / Peter Schäfer
  • The faces of the moon: cosmology, genesis and the Mithras Liturgy / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
  • 'O Paradoxical Fusion!': Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40) / Susanna Elm.

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