Tours of Hell : : An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature / / Martha Himmelfarb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Himmelfarb, Martha,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS --; ABBREVIATIONS FOR THE TOURS OF HELL --; INTRODUCTION: The Tradition of Tours of Hell --; 1. THE TEXTS --; 2. DEMONSTRATIVE EXPLANATIONS AND THE LITERARY CONTEXT OF THE TOURS OF HELL --; 3. SINS AND PUNISHMENTS I: SINS AND MEASURE-FOR-MEASURE PUNISHMENTS --; 4. SINS AND PUNISHMENTS II: ENVIRONMENTAL PUNISHMENTS AND THE SINS AND PUNISHMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE OF PAUL FAMILY --; 5. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADITION --; CONCLUSIONS: THE TOURS OF HELL AND THE HISTORY OF TOUR APOCALYPSES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512802771; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512802771
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martha Himmelfarb.

From the ancient Book of the Dead to Dante's Divine Comedy, the living have attempted to describe the world of the dead. Tours of Hell focuses on one form of that attempt: the tours of hell found in Jewish and Christian apocalypses of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages spanning a thousand years of human history.