Martha Himmelfarb, scholar
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Martha Himmelfarb (b.1952) is a Jewish-American scholar. Professor of Religions of Late Antiquity in the Dept. of Religion at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ).
Biography
Member of the Enoch Seminar.
Works
Books
- Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature (Philadelphia 1983)
- Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (New York 1993)
- A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism (Philadelphia 2006)