Warburg Institute Colloquia, vol. 27, The Cosmography of Paradise: The Other World from Ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe, ed. Alessandro Scafi (2016)
Reviews
Semitica et Classica (International Journal of Oriental and Mediterranean Studies), vol. X, 2017, review by Éric Morvillez, pp. 241–244
Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei, vol. IX, 2016, Sguardi su Dante da Oriente, review by Ephraim Nissan, pp. 360–367
Sun News Miami, 13 September 2016, review by Clifford Cunningham
Table of Contents
Introduction (pp. 1–7)
Alessandro Scafi
The Birth of Paradise: To Early Christianity, via Greece, Persia and Israel (pp. 9–30)
Jan N. Bremmer
Sumerian Paradise Lost (pp. 31–37)
Markham J. Geller
Around, Inside and Beyond the Walls: Names, Ideas and Images of Paradise in Pre-Islamic Iran (pp. 39–66)
Antonio C. D. Panaino
Enoch, Eden, and the Beginnings of Jewish Cosmography (pp. 67–94)
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Gnostic Paradises (pp. 95–107)
Einar Thomassen
Diabolizing the Garden of Eden: Re-Interpretations of Jewish Pseudepigraphy in Medieval Christian Dualism (pp. 109–125)
Yuri Stoyanov
Seeking Paradise in the Egyptian Desert (pp. 127–135)
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
Gazing at the Holy Mountain: Images of Paradise in Syriac Christian Tradition (pp. 137–162)
Sergey Minov
Food and the Senses, and One Very Special Taste of Paradise (pp. 163–181)
Danuta Shanzer
‘The Heavens Declare the Glory of God’: Mapping Cosmos and Activating Heaven through Holy Icons (pp. 183–200)
Veronica Della Dora
Paradise in Western Medieval Tradition (pp. 201–210)
Rudolf Simek
Paradise in the Islamic Religious Imagination (pp. 211–226)
Christian Lange
In Medieval Islamic Cosmography, where is Paradise? (pp. 227–243)
Emilie Savage-Smith
Valhalla and Heaven: Scandinavian Images of Paradise in a Period of Religious Change (pp. 245–266)
Anders Hultgård
Colour plates (pp. 269–284)
Index of Names (pp. 285–295)