Other worlds and their relation to this world: early Jewish and ancient Christian traditions
Approaching afterlife imagery : a contemporary glance at ancient concepts of otherworldly dimensions The "God of heaven" in Persian and Hellenistic times The heavenly temple, the prison in the void and the uninhabited paradise : otherwordly sites in the Book of Watchers Four worlds that ar...
| Summary: | Approaching afterlife imagery : a contemporary glance at ancient concepts of otherworldly dimensions The "God of heaven" in Persian and Hellenistic times The heavenly temple, the prison in the void and the uninhabited paradise : otherwordly sites in the Book of Watchers Four worlds that are "other" in the Enochic book of parables The "otherworld" and the Epistle of Enoch The otherworld in the Dead Sea Scrolls The character of the city and the temple of the Aramaic New Jerusalem The heavenly world and its relationship to this world according to rabbinic literature : some main outlines Between heaven and earth : liminal visions in 4Ezra Omnia mutantur, nihil interit? Virgil's Katabasis and the ideas of the hereafter in Ovid's Metamorphoses The otherworld and the new age in the letters of Paul The otherworld and this world in 2 Cor 12:1-10 in light of early Jewish Apocalyptic tradition The rich, the poor, and the promise of an eschatological reward in the Gospel of Luke Diesseits aus der Sicht des Jenseits : Die Sendschreiben der Offenbarung des Johannes (Offb 2-3) Asceticism and otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla Orphic, Roman, Jewish and Christian tours of hell : observations on the Apocalypse of Peter Hell in the Latin Vision of Ezra Himmlischer Aufstieg im Apokryphon des Jakobus (NHC I,2) Purgatory : worldly functions of an otherworldly notion "The holy contest" : competition for the best afterlife in The Apocalypse of Paul and late antique Egypt Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati -- Stefan Beyerle -- Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- John J. Collins -- Eibert Tigchelaar -- Beate Ego -- Hindy Najman -- Meinolf Vielberg -- Adela Yarbro Collins -- Albert Hogeterp -- Outi Lehtipuu -- Tobias Nicklas -- Korinna Zamfir -- Jan N. Bremmer -- Richard Bauckham -- Boudewijn Dehandschutter -- Andreas Merkt -- Kirsti Barrett Copeland |
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| Item Description: | Proceedings of a conference held Mar. 21-23, 2007 at Radboud University. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9004190732 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004186262.i-402 |