Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views.

In very good condition. - Introduction -- GUY G. STROUMSA -- Part I Paradises of Second Temple Judaism -- and Christian Origins -- The Messiah in the Garden -- JOACHIM SCHAPER -- Philo's scholarly inquiries into the story of paradise -- MAREN R. NIEHOFF -- Paradise in the Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo RICHARD BAUCKHAM -- Paradise, gardens, and the afterlife in the first century CE -- MARTIN GOODMAN -- Paradise in the New Testament -- GRANT MACASKILL -- Quis et unde? Heavenly obstacles in Gos. Thom. 50 and related literature -- SIMON GATHERCOLE -- Part II Contemporizing Paradise in Late Antiquity -- Tertullian and the law of paradise -- SABRINA INOWLOCKI -- The language of paradise: Hebrew or Syriac? Linguistic speculations and linguistic realities in late antiquity YONATAN MOSS -- The tree of life and the turning sword: Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts -- MENAHEM KISTER -- Erotic Eden: a rabbinic nostalgia for paradise -- GALIT HASAN-ROKEM -- Augustine on Virgil and Scripture -- GILLIAN CLARK -- Heaven as a political theme in Augustine's City of God -- EMILE PERREAU-SAUSSINE -- Locating paradise -- MARKUS BOCKMUEHL -- Epilogue: a heaven on earth -- ALESSANDRO SCAFI - Bibliography. ISBN 9780521117869