A History of Heaven <subTitle>The Singing Silence</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Russell, Jeffrey Burton</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:4</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Princeton University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1997</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>220tr.</extent> <extent>hardcover, illustration</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Russell's account of the concept of heaven from the second century B.C.E. to the middle of the fourteenth century is rich in historical detail, which will acquaint general readers with the development of a theological concept that has been of central importance in all three ""Western"" religious traditions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Russell's focus, as he notes in the preface, is Christian theology</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Jeffrey Burton Russell</note> <subject> <topic>Heaven</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Heaven Christianity</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Theology, Doctrinal -- History</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">236.24</classification> <classification authority="ddc">R961-J46</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780691011615</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14899/69.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14899/69.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071422.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>