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Death, ecstasy, and other worldly journeys / edited by John J. Collins, Michael Fishbane.

Contributor(s): Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- | Fishbane, Michael A
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xvi, 423 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 079142345X (alk. paper); 0791423468 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Death -- Religious aspects | Ecstasy | Near-death experiences -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 291.2/3 LOC classification: BL504 | .D37 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Wisdom's place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Ascent to the stars in a Mesopotamian ritual : social metaphor and religious experience / Tzvi Abusch -- A throne in the heavens : apotheosis in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins --The seven heavens in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Adela Y. Collins -- Paul and the beginning of Jewish mysticism / Alan F. Segal -- The practice of ascent in the ancient Mediterranean world / Martha Himmelfarb -- Mystical descents / Guy C. Stroumsa -- The crown of immortality : toward a redescription of Christian martyrdom / Arthur J. Droge -- Abathur, a new etymology / Nathaniel Deutsch -- The imagination of death in Jewish spirituality / Michael Fishbane -- Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth century Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Between authority and indeterminacy : some reflections on Kabbalistic hermeneutics / Moshe Idel -- Hekhalot and Miʻrāj : observations on the heavenly journey in Judaism and Islam / David J. Halperin -- The role of the "anima mundi" as mediator between the divine and created realms in the twelfth century / Bernard McGinn -- Death and the distribution of sacral power in early Japanese mythistory / Gary L. Ebersole -- To hell and back : death, near-death and other worldly journeys in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany -- Sir Henry Vane : mystical piety in the Puritan revolution / W. Clark Gilpin -- Death, and near-death today / Carol Zaleski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wisdom's place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Ascent to the stars in a Mesopotamian ritual : social metaphor and religious experience / Tzvi Abusch -- A throne in the heavens : apotheosis in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins --The seven heavens in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Adela Y. Collins -- Paul and the beginning of Jewish mysticism / Alan F. Segal -- The practice of ascent in the ancient Mediterranean world / Martha Himmelfarb -- Mystical descents / Guy C. Stroumsa -- The crown of immortality : toward a redescription of Christian martyrdom / Arthur J. Droge -- Abathur, a new etymology / Nathaniel Deutsch -- The imagination of death in Jewish spirituality / Michael Fishbane -- Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth century Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Between authority and indeterminacy : some reflections on Kabbalistic hermeneutics / Moshe Idel -- Hekhalot and Miʻrāj : observations on the heavenly journey in Judaism and Islam / David J. Halperin -- The role of the "anima mundi" as mediator between the divine and created realms in the twelfth century / Bernard McGinn -- Death and the distribution of sacral power in early Japanese mythistory / Gary L. Ebersole -- To hell and back : death, near-death and other worldly journeys in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany -- Sir Henry Vane : mystical piety in the Puritan revolution / W. Clark Gilpin -- Death, and near-death today / Carol Zaleski.

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