Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses

by Martha Himmelfarb

This is a study of the ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypses involving ascent into heaven, which have received little scholarly attention in comparison to apocalypses concerned primarily with the end of the world. Recent developments like the publication of the Aramaic Enoch fragments from Qumran and interest in questions of genre in the study of the apocalypses make this a particularly appropriate time to undertake this study. Martha Himmelfarb...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195082036
• ISBN13: 9780195082036
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"