Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions Book

	Introduction : "in Heaven as it is on Earth"	1
1	The bridge and the ladder : narrow passages in late antique visions	19
2	"Heavenly steps" : Manilius 4.119-121 and its background	34
3	Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16	47
4	"Connecting Heaven and Earth" : the function of the hymns in Revelation 4-5	67
5	Working overtime in the afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous	85
6	Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense : the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees	103
7	Who's on the throne? : revelation in the long year	123
8	The earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late antique Egypt	142
9	Contextualizing Heaven in third-century North Africa	159
10	Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth : approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the East Syrian tradition	174
11	Angels in the architecture : temple art and the poetics of praise in the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice	195
12	The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a late antique "Apollonian invocation" (PGM 1262-347)	213
13	In Heaven as it is in Hell : the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit	233
14	The faces of the moon : cosmology, genesis, and the Mithras liturgy	275
15	"O paradoxical fusion!" : Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40)	296