Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions / edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed.

The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found, not only in Judaism and Christianity, but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientifi...

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