Martha Himmelfarb, scholar

Martha Himmelfarb is a Jewish-American scholar, at Princeton University (Princeton NJ), USA.

Biography

Professor of Religions of Late Antiquity in the Dept. of Religion at Princeton University. Member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature (1983 Himmelfarb), book

• Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (1993 Himmelfarb), book

• A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism (2006 Himmelfarb), book

• The Apocalypse: A Brief History (2010 Himmelfarb), book

• Between Temple and Torah: Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond (2013 Himmelfarb), book