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Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xiii, 335 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Heaven.--Comparative studies.
Heaven--History of doctrines--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Heaven--History of doctrines.--History of doctrines.
Rome--Religion.
Greece--Religion.
Antique religions

Other Authors:

Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-
Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-322) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: 'O Paradoxical Fusion!': Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40) / Susanna Elm. 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.

ISBN:

9780521831024
0521831024

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53954268

LCCN:

2003069662

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)