Martha Himmelfarb

Tours of Hell

An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Reprint 2016 edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 1983
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780812278828
• ISBN-10: 0812278828
• Artikelnr.: 47720804

Autorenporträt

Martha Himmelfarb is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses and Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism, the latter also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Priest and Scribe: Ancestry and Professional Skill in the Book
of the Watchers, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and Aramaic Levi
Chapter 2. Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests
Chapter 3. Priesthood and Purity Laws: The Temple Scroll and the Damascus
Document
Chapter 4. Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the
Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation
Chapter 5. Priesthood and Allegory: Philo and Alexandrian Judaism
Chapter 6. "The Children of Abraham Your Friend": The End of Priesthood,
the Rise of Christianity, and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Rezensionen

"A careful, well-informed, and well-documented examination of an important but relatively little studied body of religious literature. . . . Exemplary."--George W. E. Nickelsburg, University of Iowa "An excellent study of a very difficult set of significant texts."--Burton L. Mack, Claremont Graduate School