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Paradise in antiquity : Jewish and Christian views / edited by Markus Bockmuehl and Guy G. Stroumsa.

Contributor(s): Bockmuehl, Markus N. A | Stroumsa, Guy G
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Hebrew, Latin Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xi, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521117869; 0521117860Subject(s): Paradise | Future life | Paradise (Judaism) | Paradise -- Christianity | Future life -- Judaism | Future life -- ChristianityDDC classification: 296.3/3 LOC classification: BL540 | .P37 2010Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the paradise chronotrope / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Paradises of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins -- The messiah in the garden: John 19.38-41, (royal) gardens, and messianic concepts / Joachim Schaper -- Philo's scholarly inquiries into the story of paradise / Maren R. Niehoff -- Paradise in the Biblical antiquities of Pseudo-Philo / Richard Bauckham -- Paradise, gardens, and the afterlife in the first century CE / Martin Goodman -- Paradise in the New Testament / Grant Macaskill -- Quis et unde? : heavenly obstacles in Gos. Thom. 50 and related literature / Simon Gathercole -- Contemporizing paradise in late antiquity -- Tertullian's law of paradise (Adversus Judaeos 2) : reflections on a shared motif in Jewish and Christian literature / Sabrina Inowlocki -- The language of paradise : Hebrew or Syriac? : linguistic speculations and linguistic realities in late antiquity / Yonatan Moss -- The tree of life and the turning sword : Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols, and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts / Menahem Kister -- Erotic Eden : a rabbinic nostalgia for paradise / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Paradise for pagans? : Augustine on Virgil, Cicero, and Plato / Gillian Clark -- Heaven as a political theme in Augustine's City of God / Emile Perreau-Saussine -- Locating paradise / Markus Bockmuehl -- Epilogue : a heaven on Earth / Alessandro Scafi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the paradise chronotrope / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Part I. Paradises of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins -- The messiah in the garden: John 19.38-41, (royal) gardens, and messianic concepts / Joachim Schaper -- Philo's scholarly inquiries into the story of paradise / Maren R. Niehoff -- Paradise in the Biblical antiquities of Pseudo-Philo / Richard Bauckham -- Paradise, gardens, and the afterlife in the first century CE / Martin Goodman -- Paradise in the New Testament / Grant Macaskill -- Quis et unde? : heavenly obstacles in Gos. Thom. 50 and related literature / Simon Gathercole -- Part II. Contemporizing paradise in late antiquity -- Tertullian's law of paradise (Adversus Judaeos 2) : reflections on a shared motif in Jewish and Christian literature / Sabrina Inowlocki -- The language of paradise : Hebrew or Syriac? : linguistic speculations and linguistic realities in late antiquity / Yonatan Moss -- The tree of life and the turning sword : Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols, and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts / Menahem Kister -- Erotic Eden : a rabbinic nostalgia for paradise / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Paradise for pagans? : Augustine on Virgil, Cicero, and Plato / Gillian Clark -- Heaven as a political theme in Augustine's City of God / Emile Perreau-Saussine -- Locating paradise / Markus Bockmuehl -- Epilogue : a heaven on Earth / Alessandro Scafi.

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