Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys (1995 Collins/Fishbane), edited volume

Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys (1995) is a volume edited by John J. Collins, and Michael A. Fishbane.

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Published in Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Wisdom's place / Jonathan Z. Smith
Ascent to the stars in a Mesopotamian ritual : social metaphor and religious experience / Tzvi Abusch
A throne in the heavens : apotheosis in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins
The seven heavens in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Adela Y. Collins
Paul and the beginning of Jewish mysticism / Alan F. Segal
The practice of ascent in the ancient Mediterranean world / Martha Himmelfarb
Mystical descents / Guy C. Stroumsa
The crown of immortality : toward a redescription of Christian martyrdom / Arthur J. Droge
Abathur, a new etymology / Nathaniel Deutsch
The imagination of death in Jewish spirituality / Michael Fishbane
Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth century Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson
Between authority and indeterminacy : some reflections on Kabbalistic hermeneutics / Moshe Idel
Hekhalot and MiÊ»raÌ„j : observations on the heavenly journey in Judaism and Islam / David J. Halperin
The role of the "anima mundi" as mediator between the divine and created realms in the twelfth century / Bernard McGinn
Death and the distribution of sacral power in early Japanese mythistory / Gary L. Ebersole
To hell and back : death, near-death and other worldly journeys in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany
Sir Henry Vane : mystical piety in the Puritan revolution / W. Clark Gilpin
Death, and near-death today / Carol Zaleski