When contemporary Christians worship?be they Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or Pentecostal?they engage in a variety of ritual acts whose diversity and complexity may at first puzzle the observer. A c
Originally worshipped by the people of a small and politically insignificant eastern Mediterranean community, the Hebrew God rose to become the monotheistic deity of the entire Western tradition. In t
In heaven, we will meet our friends: this was one of the most conspicuous expectations Christians had, and continue to have, of life after death. While the theme as such is almost as old as Christiani
The biblical story of Joseph ranks in the history of world literature alongside The Odyssey and other ancient legends as a seminal canonical text and has provided rich material for later writers to im
Bernhard Lang, known for his contributions over several decades to biblical anthropology, offers in this volume a selection of essays on the life and literature of the ancient Hebrews. The subjects ra
With this volume, the Review ceases publication; Lang is retiring from the University of Paderborn, Germany, which has been funding the publication since 1985, and no other institution has come forwar
Including a substantial new Preface on changing views of life after death in the new century, this copiously illustrated book describes the ways in which believers--from biblical authors to present-da
What happens to us when we die? Are heaven and hell real? If so, what are they like? Heaven and Hell contains the answers to these questions as seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). ? This new trans
In his most popular and influential work, Swedenborg describes his journeys through the afterlife—the soul’s experience of dying and then being resurrected in heaven, how each of us finds a community
