The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses 200 BCE-200 CE

ISBN: 9789004207264 出版年：2011 页码：245 Leslie Baynes Brill

The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. Through multiple intertextual readings, it demonstrates that for the ancients heavenly writing had life or death consequences.