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Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions / edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed.

Contributor(s): Boustan, Raʻanan S, 1971- | Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, England ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xiii, 335 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521831024 (alk. paper); 9780521831024 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Heaven -- Comparative studies | Heaven -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Heaven -- History of doctrines | Rome -- Religion | Greece -- ReligionLOC classification: BL540 | .H43 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : "in heaven as it is on earth" / Ra'anan S. Boustan and 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 the afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense : the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees / Martha Himmelfarb -- Who's on the throne? revelation in a 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. Boustan -- The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a Late Antique "Apollonian 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "in heaven as it is on earth" / Ra'anan S. Boustan and 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 the afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense : the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees / Martha Himmelfarb -- Who's on the throne? revelation in a 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. Boustan -- The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a Late Antique "Apollonian 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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