Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions

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Author: Ra'anan S. Bouston

ISBN-10: 0521831024

ISBN-13: 9780521831024

Category: Comparative Religion - General & Miscellaneous

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Maps the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.

Introduction : "in Heaven as it is on Earth"11The bridge and the ladder : narrow passages in late antique visions192"Heavenly steps" : Manilius 4.119-121 and its background343Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16474"Connecting Heaven and Earth" : the function of the hymns in Revelation 4-5675Working overtime in the afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous856Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense : the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees1037Who's on the throne? : revelation in the long year1238The earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late antique Egypt1429Contextualizing Heaven in third-century North Africa15910Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth : approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the East Syrian tradition17411Angels in the architecture : temple art and the poetics of praise in the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice19512The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a late antique "Apollonian invocation" (PGM 1262-347)21313In Heaven as it is in Hell : the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit23314The faces of the moon : cosmology, genesis, and the Mithras liturgy27515"O paradoxical fusion!" : Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40)296