| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 423 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Wisdom's place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Ascent to the stars in a Mesopotamian ritual : social metaphor and religious experience / Tzvi Abusch -- A throne in the heavens : apotheosis in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins --The seven heavens in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Adela Y. Collins -- Paul and the beginning of Jewish mysticism / Alan F. Segal -- The practice of ascent in the ancient Mediterranean world / Martha Himmelfarb -- Mystical descents / Guy C. Stroumsa -- The crown of immortality : toward a redescription of Christian martyrdom / Arthur J. Droge -- Abathur, a new etymology / Nathaniel Deutsch -- The imagination of death in Jewish spirituality / Michael Fishbane -- Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth century Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Between authority and indeterminacy : some reflections on Kabbalistic hermeneutics / Moshe Idel -- Hekhalot and Miʻrāj : observations on the heavenly journey in Judaism and Islam / David J. Halperin -- The role of the "anima mundi" as mediator between the divine and created realms in the twelfth century / Bernard McGinn -- Death and the distribution of sacral power in early Japanese mythistory / Gary L. Ebersole -- To hell and back : death, near-death and other worldly journeys in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany -- Sir Henry Vane : mystical piety in the Puritan revolution / W. Clark Gilpin -- Death, and near-death today / Carol Zaleski. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Death -- Religious aspects.
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Death -- Religious aspects. |
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Ecstasy.
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Ecstasy. |
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Near-death experiences -- Religious aspects.
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Near-death experiences -- Religious aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-
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Fishbane, Michael, 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Death, ecstasy, and other worldly journeys. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995 079142345X (DLC) 94013469 (OCoLC)30156563 |
| ISBN |
0585062706 (electronic book) |
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9780585062709 (electronic book) |
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079142345X |
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0791423468 |
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