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The Early History of Heaven.
by WRIGHT, J.E.,
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Oxford University Press, Oxford/NewYork, 2000. XVIII,318p. Bound wrps. This volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm - where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbours Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. (Publisher's information).
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- The Early History of Heaven.
- Author
- WRIGHT, J.E.,
- Book Condition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 019513009X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195130096
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- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2000-01
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