Death, ecstasy, and other worldly journeys /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1995. |
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| Description: | xvi, 423 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1713289 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Antiquity
- Chapter 1. Wisdom's Place
- Chapter 2. Ascent to the Stars in a Mesopotamian Ritual:Social Metaphor and Religious Experience
- Late Antiquity
- Chapter 3. A Throne in the Heavens: Apotheosis in Pre-Christian Judaism
- Chapter 4. The Seven Heavens in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses
- Chapter 5. Paul and the Beginning of Jewish Mysticism
- Chapter 6. The Practice of Ascent in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Chapter 7. Mystical Descents
- The Crown of Immortality: Toward a Redescription of Christian Martyrdom
- Chapter 9. Abathur, A New Etymology
- Medieval
- Chapter 10. The Imagination of Death in Spirituality Jewish
- Chapter 11. Weeping, Death, and Spiritual Ascent in Sixteenth Century Jewish Mysticism
- Chapter 12. Between Authority and Indeterminacy: Some Reflections on Kabbalistic Hermeneutics
- Chapter 13. Hekhalot and Mi'raj:Observations on the Heavenly Journey in Judaism and Islam
- Chapter 14. The Role of the "Anima Mundi" as Mediator Between the Divine and Created Realms in the Twelfth Century
- Early Modern
- Chapter 15. Death and the Distribution of Sacral Power in Early Japanese Mythistory
- Chapter 16. To Hell and Back: Death, Near-Death and Other Worldly Journeys in Early Medieval China
- Chapter 17. Sir Henry Vane: Mystical Piety in the Puritan Revolution
- Contemporary
- Chapter 18. Death, and Near-Death Today
- Contributors
- Biblical References Index
- Nonbiblical Authors and Works Index
- Modern Authors Index