Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions / 
edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed. 
 - Cambridge, UK ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2004. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index. 
<br/><br/> 'In Heaven as it is on Earth' /  The bridge and the ladder: narrow passages in late antique visions /  'Heavenly Steps': Manilius 4.119-121 and its background /  Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16 /  'Connecting Heaven and Earth': the function of the hymns in Revelation 4-5 /  Working overtime in afterlife, or, no rest for the virtuous /  Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense: the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees /  Who's on the throne? Revelation in the long year /  The earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late antique Egypt /  Contextualizing heaven in third-century North Africa /  Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth: approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the East-Syrian tradition /  Angels in the architecture: temple art and the poetics of praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice /  The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a late antique 'Appollonian Invocation' (PGM I 262-347) /  In heaven as it is in hell: the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit /  The faces of the moon: cosmology, genesis and the Mithras Liturgy /  'O Paradoxical Fusion!': Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40) /  Ra'anan S. Bouston,  Annette Yoshiko Reed --  Fritz Graf --  Katharina Volk --  Annette Yoshiko Reed --  Gottfried Schimanowski --  Sarah Iles Johnson --  Martha Himmelfarb --  John W. Marshall --  Kirsti B. Copeland --  Jan N. Bremmer --  Adam H. Becker --  Ra'anan S. Bouston --  Christopher A. Faraone --  Peter Schäfer --  Radcliffe G. Edmonds III --  Susanna Elm.  Introduction: 
<br/><br/> The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found, not only in Judaism and Christianity, but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientific, and 'magical' traditions. Transcending social, regional and creedal boundaries, the preoccupation with heaven in Late Antiquity serves as a focus for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding this formative era in Western culture and history. Drawing upon the expertise of scholars of Classics, Ancient History, Jewish Studies, and Patristics, this volume explores the different functions of heavenly imagery in different texts and traditions in order to map the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780511211751 0511211759 9780521831024 0521831024 0511215339 9780511215339 0511217129 9780511217128 9780511497889 0511497881 1280540443 9781280540448 9786610540440 6610540446 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>30-600 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Heaven--Comparative studies.<br/>Heaven--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Heaven--Judaism--History of doctrines.<br/>Ciel--Aspect religieux--Études comparatives.<br/>Ciel--Aspect religieux--Christianisme--Histoire des doctrines.<br/>Ciel--Aspect religieux--Judaïsme--Histoire des doctrines.<br/>RELIGION--Eschatology.<br/>Heaven.<br/>Religion.<br/>Hemel.<br/>Godsdiensten.<br/>Late oudheid.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rome--Religion.<br/>Greece--Religion.<br/>Rome--Religion.<br/>Grèce--Religion.<br/>Greece.<br/>Rome (Empire)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Antique religions 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Comparative studies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL540  / .H43 2004eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>202.309015