Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys
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IntroductionAntiquity1Ch. 1Wisdom's Place3Ch. 2Ascent to the Stars in a Mesopotamian Ritual: Social Metaphor and Religious Experience15Late Antiquity39Ch. 3A Throne in the Heavens: Apotheosis in Pre-Christian Judaism41Ch. 4The Seven Heavens in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses57Ch. 5Paul and the Beginning of Jewish Mysticism93Ch. 6The Practice of Ascent in the Ancient Mediterranean World121Ch. 7Mystical Descents137Ch. 8The Crown of Immortality: Toward a Redescription of Christian Martyrdom153Ch. 9Abathur, A New Etymology169Medieval179Ch. 10The Imagination of Death in Jewish Spirituality181Ch. 11Weeping, Death, and Spiritual Ascent in Sixteenth Century Jewish Mysticism207Ch. 12Between Authority and Indeterminacy: Some Reflections on Kabbalistic Hermeneutics245Ch. 13Hekhalot and Miraj: Observations on the Heavenly Journey in Judaism and Islam265Ch. 14The Role of the "Anima Mundi" as Mediator Between the Divine and Created Realms in the Twelfth Century285Early Modern317Ch. 15Death and the Distribution of Sacral Power in Early Japanese Mythistory319Ch. 16To Hell and Back: Death, Near-Death and Other Worldly Journeys in Early Medieval China339Ch. 17Sir Henry Vane: Mystical Piety in the Puritan Revolution357Contemporary377Ch. 18Death, and Near-Death Today379Contributors405Biblical References Index411Nonbiblical Authors and Works Index415Modern Authors Index421
