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Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and

Christian Apocalypses

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Ascent to Heaven

in Jewish and Christian

Apocalypses

MARTHA HIMMELFARB

New York Oxford

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1993

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Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952-

Ascent to heaven in Jewish and Christian apocalypses/

Martha Himmelfarb. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-19-508203-6

1. Apocalyptic literature. 2. Voyages to the otherworld.

3. Heaven. 4. Angels in literature.

I. Title. BS1705.H56 1993 229'.913—dc20 92-35748

1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the

USA. Used with permission.

The quotation from "Revelation and Rapture" by Martha Himmelfarb, which appeared in the is-

sue of the Journal for the Study of Pseudefigrapha entitled Mysteries and Revelations^ is reprinted by

permission of the publisher.

The quotation from The Book of Enoch by Matthew Black (1985) is reprinted by permission of the

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Ascent to Heaven in Jewish-Christian Apocalypses - Martha Himmelfarb, Oxford-NY, 1993.pdf