
Tours of Hell
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Martha Himmelfarb is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses and Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism, the latter also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
- ABBREVIATIONS FOR THE TOURS OF HELL
- INTRODUCTION: The Tradition of Tours of Hell
- 1. THE TEXTS
- 2. DEMONSTRATIVE EXPLANATIONS AND THE LITERARY CONTEXT OF THE TOURS OF HELL
- 3. SINS AND PUNISHMENTS I: SINS AND MEASURE-FOR-MEASURE PUNISHMENTS
- 4. SINS AND PUNISHMENTS II: ENVIRONMENTAL PUNISHMENTS AND THE SINS AND PUNISHMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE OF PAUL FAMILY
- 5. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADITION
- CONCLUSIONS: THE TOURS OF HELL AND THE HISTORY OF TOUR APOCALYPSES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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