The Early History of Heaven by J Edward Wright
How and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm as they do? This volume traces the history of speculation about heaven and discovers that the Hebrew texts that fed Jewish and Christian notions were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures.
This well organized volume synthesizes a large corpus of technical scholarship, making it an eminently useful work* Choice *
J. Edward Wright is director of Judaic Studies and an associate professor of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism at the University of Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. The author of The Early History of Heaven, selected by Choice magazine as one of its Outstanding Academic Books for 2000, Wright has received several national and international research fellowships, including a Yad Hanadiv/Rothschild Foundation Fellowship at Hebrew University. He lives in Tucson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195152302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195152301 |
| Title | The Early History of Heaven |
| Author | J Edward Wright |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2002-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of A ^IChoice^R Outstanding Academic Title for 2000. |
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