Approaching afterlife imagery : a contemporary glance at ancient concepts of otherworldly dimensions / Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati -- The "God of heaven" in Persian and Hellenistic times / Stefan Beyerle -- The heavenly temple, the prison in the void and the uninhabited paradise : otherworldly sites in the Book of Watchers / Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- Four worlds that are "other" in the Enochic book of parables / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- The "otherworld" and the Epistle of Enoch / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- The otherworld in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins -- The character of the city and the temple of the Aramaic New Jerusalem / Eibert Tigchelaar -- The heavenly world and its relationship to this world according to rabbinic literature : some main outlines / Beate Ego -- Between heaven and earth : liminal visions in 4Ezra / Hindy Najman -- Omnia mutantur, nihil interit? Virgil's Katabasis and the ideas of the hereafter in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Meinolf Vielberg -- The otherworld and the new age in the letters of Paul / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The otherworld and this world in 2 Cor 12:1-10 in light of early Jewish Apocalyptic tradition / Albert Hogeterp -- The rich, the poor, and the promise of an eschatological reward in the Gospel of Luke / Outi Lehtipuu -- Diesseits aus der Sicht des Jenseits : Die Sendschreiben der Offenbarung des Johannes (Offb 2-3) / Tobias Nicklas -- Asceticism and otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Korinna Zamfir -- Orphic, Roman, Jewish and Christian tours of hell : observations on the Apocalypse of Peter / Jan N. Bremmer -- Hell in the Latin Vision of Ezra / Richard Bauckham -- Himmlischer Aufstieg im Apokryphon des Jakobus (NHC I,2) / Boudewijn Dehandschutter -- Purgatory : worldly functions of an otherworldly notion / Andreas Merkt -- "The holy contest" : competition for the best afterlife in The Apocalypse of Paul and late antique Egypt / Kirsti Barrett Copeland.