The Open Heaven

by Christopher C. Rowland

Book Overview

The Open Heaven offers a comprehensive discussion of Jewish apocalyptic literature and themes in the Second Temple period and in early Christianity. In it there is a sustained challenge to the widespread view that apocalypticism is a form of eschatology, and, it has been widely recognised as a significant contribution to the discussion of apcocalypticism in religion since it was first published twenty years ago. By concentrating on the revelatory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592440126
• ISBN13: 9781592440122
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"