Martha Himmelfarb, scholar
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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 (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)