Ra'anan S. Boustan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. A scholar of early Jewish mysticism, relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the history of the Jews in the Second Temple Period, he has published studies on early Jewish mystical poetry and the role of gender and sexuality within Hellenistic Jewish thought, among other topics.
Annette Yoshiko Reed is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. She has contributed to the Journal of Biblical Literature, Vigiliae Christianae, and Jewish Studies Quarterly, and is co-editor of The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Introduction: 'In Heaven as it is on Earth' Ra'anan S. Bouston and Annette
Yoshiko Reed; Part I. Between Earth and Heaven: 1. The bridge and the
ladder: narrow passages in late antique visions Fritz Graf; 2. 'Heavenly
Steps': Manilius 4.119-121 and its background Katharina Volk; 3. Heavenly
ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16
Annette Yoshiko Reed; 4. 'Connecting Heaven and Earth': the function of the
hymns in Revelation 4-5 Gottfried Schimanowski; 5. Working overtime in
afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous Sarah Iles Johnson; Part II.
Institutionalising Heaven: 6. Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense: the
law of priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees Martha Himmelfarb; 7. Who's
on the throne?: revelation in the long year John W. Marshall; 8. The
earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late
antique Egypt Kirsti B. Copeland; 9. Contextualising heaven in
third-century North Africa Jan N. Bremmer; 10. Bringing the heavenly
academy down to earth: approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the
East-Syrian tradition Adam H. Becker; Part III. Tradition and Innovation:
11. Angels in the architecture: temple art and the poetics of praise in the
Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Ra'anan S. Bouston; 12. The collapse of
celestial and chthonic realms in late antique 'Appollonian Invocation'
(PGMI 262-347) Christopher A. Faraone; 13. In heaven as it is in hell: the
cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit Peter Schäfer; 14. The faces of the
moon: cosmology, genesis and the Mithras Liturgy Radcliffe G. Edmonds III;
15. 'O Paradoxical Fusion!': Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology
(Orations 38-40) Susanna Elm.
