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Paradise in antiquity : Jewish and Christian views /
"The social and intellectual vitality of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity was in large part a function of their ability to articulate a viably transcendent hope for the human condition. Narratives of Paradise - based on the concrete symbol of the Garden of Delights - came to play a central...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew Latín |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the paradise chronotrope / Guy G. Stroumsa
- pt. I. Paradises of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. The messiah in the garden : John 19.38-41, (royal) gardens, and messianic concepts / Joachim Schaper
- Philo's scholarly inquiries into the story of paradise / Maren R. Niehoff
- Paradise in the Biblical antiquities of Pseudo-Philo / Richard Bauckham
- Paradise, gardens, and the afterlife in the first century CE / Martin Goodman
- Paradise in the New Testament / Grant Macaskill
- Quis et unde? : heavenly obstacles in Gos. Thom. 50 and related literature / Simon Gathercole
- pt. II. Contemporizing paradise in late antiquity. Tertullian's law of paradise (Adversus Judaeos 2) : reflections on a shared motif in Jewish and Christian literature / Sabrina Inowlocki
- The language of paradise : Hebrew or Syriac? : linguistic speculations and linguistic realities in late antiquity / Yonatan Moss
- The tree of life and the turning sword : Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols, and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts / Menahem Kister
- Erotic Eden : a rabbinic nostalgia for paradise / Galit Hasan-Rokem
- Paradise for pagans? : Augustine on Virgil, Cicero, and Plato / Gillian Clark
- Heaven as a political theme in Augustine's City of God / Emile Perreau-Saussine
- Locating paradise / Markus Bockmuehl
- Epilogue : a heaven on earth / Alessandro Scafi.