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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]
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages)
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.
Contents Approaching afterlife imagery : a contemporary glance at ancient concepts of otherworldly dimensions / Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati -- The "God of heaven" in Persian and Hellenistic times / Stefan Beyerle -- The 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 -- The "otherworld" and the Epistle of Enoch / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- The otherworld in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins -- The character of the city and the temple of the Aramaic New Jerusalem / Eibert Tigchelaar -- The 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 -- The otherworld and the new age in the letters of Paul / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The otherworld and this world in 2 Cor 12:1-10 in light of early Jewish Apocalyptic tradition / Albert Hogeterp -- The 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
Summary Is there another, perhaps better world than the one where we live? Is there a future for us after death and how does it look like? The articles in this volume describe how ancient Jewish and Christian authors dealt with the above questions and what their answers had to do with their own life experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Apokryphen gnd
Bibel gnd
Subject Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses
Future life -- Judaism -- History of doctrines -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology.
Frühjudentum
Frühchristentum
Antike
Jenseitsglaube
Apokalyptik
Eschatologie
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Nicklas, Tobias, 1967-
ISBN 9789004190733
9004190732
1283039427
9781283039420
9786613039422
661303942X