Introduction: 'In Heaven as it is on Earth' Ra'anan S. Bouston and Annette Yoshiko Reed; Part I. Between Earth and Heaven: 1. The bridge and the ladder: narrow passages in late antique visions Fritz Graf; 2. 'Heavenly Steps': Manilius 4.119-121 and its background Katharina Volk; 3. Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16 Annette Yoshiko Reed; 4. 'Connecting Heaven and Earth': the function of the hymns in Revelation 4-5 Gottfried Schimanowski; 5. Working overtime in afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous Sarah Iles Johnson; Part II. Institutionalising Heaven: 6. Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense: the law of priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees Martha Himmelfarb; 7. Who's on the throne?: revelation in the long year John W. Marshall; 8. The earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late antique Egypt Kirsti B. Copeland; 9. Contextualising heaven in third-century North Africa Jan N. Bremmer; 10. Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth: approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the East-Syrian tradition Adam H. Becker; Part III. Tradition and Innovation: 11. Angels in the architecture: temple art and the poetics of praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Ra'anan S. Bouston; 12. The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in late antique 'Appollonian Invocation' (PGMI 262-347) Christopher A. Faraone; 13. In heaven as it is in hell: the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit Peter Schäfer; 14. The faces of the moon: cosmology, genesis and the Mithras Liturgy Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; 15. 'O Paradoxical Fusion!': Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40) Susanna Elm.