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Title Other worlds and their relation to this world : early Jewish and ancient Christian traditions / edited by Tobias Nicklas [and others].

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 143
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 143.
Note Proceedings of a conference held Mar. 21-23, 2007 at Radboud University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Approaching afterlife imagery : a contemporary glance at ancient concepts of otherworldly dimensions / Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati -- "God of heaven" in Persian and Hellenistic times / Stefan Beyerle -- Heavenly temple, the prison in the void and the uninhabited paradise : otherworldly sites in the Book of Watchers / Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- Four worlds that are "other" in the Enochic book of parables / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- "Otherworld" and the Epistle of Enoch / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Otherworld in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins -- Character of the city and the temple of the Aramaic New Jerusalem / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Heavenly world and its relationship to this world according to rabbinic literature : some main outlines / Beate Ego -- Between heaven and earth : liminal visions in 4Ezra / Hindy Najman -- Omnia mutantur, nihil interit? Virgil's Katabasis and the ideas of the hereafter in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Meinolf Vielberg -- Otherworld and the new age in the letters of Paul / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Otherworld and this world in 2 Cor 12:1-10 in light of early Jewish Apocalyptic tradition / Albert Hogeterp -- Rich, the poor, and the promise of an eschatological reward in the Gospel of Luke / Outi Lehtipuu -- Diesseits aus der Sicht des Jenseits : Die Sendschreiben der Offenbarung des Johannes (Offb 2-3) / Tobias Nicklas -- Asceticism and otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Korinna Zamfir -- Orphic, Roman, Jewish and Christian tours of hell : observations on the Apocalypse of Peter / Jan N. Bremmer -- Hell in the Latin Vision of Ezra / Richard Bauckham -- Himmlischer Aufstieg im Apokryphon des Jakobus (NHC I,2) / Boudewijn Dehandschutter -- Purgatory : worldly functions of an otherworldly notion / Andreas Merkt -- "The holy contest" : competition for the best afterlife in The Apocalypse of Paul and late antique Egypt / Kirsti Barrett Copeland.
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Subject Apokryphen.
Bibel.
Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses.
Future life -- Judaism -- History of doctrines -- Congresses.
Future life -- Judaism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Nicklas, Tobias, 1967-
Other Form: Print version: Other worlds and their relation to this world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004186262 (DLC) 2010030373 (OCoLC)651901453
ISBN 9789004190733 (electronic book)
9004190732 (electronic book)
1283039427
9781283039420
9789004186262
9004186263