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This review is from: The Fate of the Dead: Studies on Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Supplements to Novum Testamentum) (Hardcover)
The fourteen studies collected in this book have been written as independent units, but many of them are closely interconnected in their subject matter. The first three chapters (1.Descents to the Underworld, 2.Early Jewish Visions of Hell and 3.Visiting the Places of the Dead in the Extra-Canonical Apocalypses) treat a particularly important theme in the apocalypses and related literature: a visit to the places of the dead which enables the visitor to reveal their character and contents to the living. Such revelations of the fate of the dead by means of otherworldly journeys are to be found in several cultural traditions of the ancient world, which parallel and in some cases must have influenced the accounts of such journeys in the Jewish and Christian apocalypses. Of special interest to me was Chapter 12 (The Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens), a full study of a short text which is extant in an incomplete Latin version.
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The Fate of the Dead: Studies on Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Supplements to Novum Testamentum) by Richard Bauckham (Hardcover - Oct. 1998)
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