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Jesus">resurrection</a>, where he was <a href="/wiki/Exaltation_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Exaltation of Jesus">exalted</a> as Lord and <a href="/wiki/Christ_(title)" title="Christ (title)">Christ</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENovakovic2014135-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHurtado2005508,_591-2">[2]</a> <a href="/wiki/Session_of_Christ" title="Session of Christ">sitting</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Right_hand_of_God" title="Right hand of God">right hand of God</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossLivingstone2005114-3">[3]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jesus_ascending_to_heaven.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Jesus_ascending_to_heaven.jpg/260px-Jesus_ascending_to_heaven.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="291" class="mw-file-element" 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"> The Gospels and other New Testament writings imply resurrection and exaltation as a single event.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009146-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZwiep2016145-5">[5]</a> The ascension is "more assumed than described," and only Luke and Acts contain direct accounts of it,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolwerda1979310-311-6">[6]</a> but with different chronologies.<a href="#cite_note-9">[note 1]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Christian_art" title="Christian art">Christian art</a>, the ascending Jesus is often shown blessing an earthly group below him, signifying the entire Church.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOuspenskyLossky1999197-10">[9]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ascension" title="Feast of the Ascension">Feast of the Ascension</a> is celebrated on the 40th day of <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a>, always a Thursday;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossLivingstone2005114-3">[3]</a> some Orthodox traditions have a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition. The <a href="/wiki/Lutheran_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran Church">Lutheran Churches</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a> continue to observe the Feast of the Ascension.<a href="#cite_note-COD2024-11">[10]</a> Certain <a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">Nonconformist</a> churches, such as the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren">Plymouth Brethren</a>, do not observe the feast.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuast201145-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStokl-Ben-Ezra2007286-13">[12]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biblical_accounts">1 Biblical accounts</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Views_on_the_Ascension">2 Views on the Ascension</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Background">2.1 Background</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Theology">2.2 Theology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Cosmology">2.3 Cosmology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Islam">2.4 Islam</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Nonreligious_views">2.5 Nonreligious views</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Liturgy:_Feast_of_the_Ascension">3 Liturgy: Feast of the Ascension</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#In_Christian_art">4 In Christian art</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Olivet_and_the_Chapel_of_the_Ascension">4.1 Olivet and the Chapel of the Ascension</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Gallery">4.2 Gallery</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#See_also">5 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#References">6 References</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Notes">6.1 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Citations">6.2 Citations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Works_cited">6.3 Works cited</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Further_reading">6.4 Further reading</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Biblical_accounts">Biblical accounts</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biblical accounts" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"> Although the ascension is an important article of faith in Christianity, only Luke and Acts contain direct accounts of it. In the shorter ending of Mark, in Matthew, and in John, it is only implied or alluded to.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolwerda1979310-311-6">[6]</a> The Gospels do not picture resurrection and ascension as clearly separated in time.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009140-8">[8]</a> Other New Testament writings also imply resurrection and exaltation as a single event.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009140-8">[8]</a> Various epistles (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Romans#8:34" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Romans">Romans 8:34</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Ephesians#1:19" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Ephesians">Ephesians 1:19–20</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Colossians#3:1" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Colossians">Colossians 3:1</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Philippians#2:9" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Philippians">Philippians 2:9–11</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/1_Timothy#3:16" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/1 Timothy">1 Timothy 3:16</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/1_Peter#3:21" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/1 Peter">1 Peter 3:21–22</a>) refer to an ascension without specifying details, seeming, like <a href="/wiki/Luke%E2%80%93Acts" title="Luke–Acts">Luke–Acts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">John</a>, to equate it with the post-resurrection "exaltation" of Jesus to the right hand of God.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald200421-14">[13]</a> The ascension is detailed in both Luke and Acts, a pair of works ascribed to the same author, <a href="/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist" title="Luke the Evangelist">Luke the Evangelist</a>:<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompson2010319-15">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolwerda1979310-7">[7]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luke_24" title="Luke 24">Luke 24:51</a>: Jesus leads the eleven remaining <a href="/wiki/Apostles_in_the_New_Testament" title="Apostles in the New Testament">disciples</a> to <a href="/wiki/Bethany_(Biblical_village)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethany (Biblical village)">Bethany</a>, a village on the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a>, and instructs them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a>: "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy."</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acts_1" title="Acts 1">Acts 1</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts%201:1%E2%80%939&version=nrsv">Acts 1:1–9</a>): Jesus tells the disciples to remain in Jerusalem and await the coming of the Holy Spirit; he is then taken up from the disciples in their sight, a cloud hides him from view, and two men in white appear to tell them that he will return "in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEM%C3%BCller2016113-114-16">[15]</a></li></ul> Luke and Acts appear to describe the same event but present quite different chronologies, the gospel placing it on the same day as the resurrection and Acts forty days afterwards;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeim200924-17">[16]</a> various proposals have been put forward to resolve the contradiction, but none have been found satisfactory.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEM%C3%BCller2016113-18">[17]</a> According to Dunn, the author of Acts separated the resurrection and ascension to put a limit on the number of resurrection appearances,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009140,_146-19">[18]</a> effectively excluding Paul's conversion experience from the bona fide resurrection appearances.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009140-8">[8]</a> Zwiep argues that Jesus was originally believed to have been <a href="/wiki/Exaltation_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Exaltation of Jesus">exalted</a> with his ascension to heaven and seated at the right hand of God with his resurrection<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZwiep2016145-5">[5]</a> until the late first century where he argues the exaltation had been separated from the resurrection, and moved to a final ascension into heaven after his appearances on earth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZwiep2016145-5">[5]</a> Other scholars note that the biblical authors tended to conflate or compress different events and narrate them as one which was a literary theme seen in other ancient biographies to improve the narrative flow. Such scholars caution against a strictly chronological reading.<a href="#cite_note-20">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> John's Gospel has three references to ascension in Jesus' own words: "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3:13&version=nkjv">John 3:13</a>); "What if you [the disciples] were to see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+6:62&version=nkjv">John 6:62</a>); and to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father..." (<a href="/wiki/John_20:17" title="John 20:17">John 20:17</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolwerda1979310-7">[7]</a> In the first and second Jesus is claiming to be the apocalyptic "one like a Son of Man" of <a href="/wiki/Daniel_7" title="Daniel 7">Daniel 7</a>;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEK%C3%B6stenberger200485-22">[21]</a> the last has mystified commentators – why should Mary be prohibited from touching the risen but not yet ascended Christ, while Thomas is later invited to do so?<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuast1991134-23">[22]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Mark_16#Longer_ending" title="Mark 16">longer ending</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Mark</a> describes an ascension, but is a later addition to the original version of that gospel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECresswell2013unpaginated-24">[23]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Views_on_the_Ascension">Views on the Ascension</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Views on the Ascension" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg/170px-Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg" decoding="async" width="170" height="391" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="788"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 391px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg/170px-Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg" data-width="170" data-height="391" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg/255px-Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg/340px-Adriaen_van_Overbeke_-_Ascension_of_Christ.jpeg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Ascension of Christ by <a href="/wiki/Adriaen_van_Overbeke" title="Adriaen van Overbeke">Adriaen van Overbeke</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1510–1520</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Background" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Ascension stories were fairly common around the time of Jesus and the evangelists,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald200422-25">[24]</a> signifying the deification of a noteworthy person (usually a Roman Emperor), and in Judaism as an indication of divine approval.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAune2003a65-26">[25]</a> Another function of heavenly ascent was as a mode of divine revelation reflected in Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian literary sources, in which particular individuals with prophetic or revelatory gifts are said to have experienced a heavenly journey during which they learned cosmic and divine secrets.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAune2003a65-26">[25]</a> Figures familiar to Jews would have included <a href="/wiki/Enoch_(ancestor_of_Noah)" class="mw-redirect" title="Enoch (ancestor of Noah)">Enoch</a> (from the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Book of Genesis</a> and a popular non-Biblical work called <a href="/wiki/1_Enoch" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Enoch">1 Enoch</a>); the 5th-century sage <a href="/wiki/Ezra" title="Ezra">Ezra</a>; <a href="/wiki/Baruch_ben_Neriah" title="Baruch ben Neriah">Baruch</a> the companion of the prophet <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah" title="Jeremiah">Jeremiah</a> (from a work called <a href="/wiki/2_Baruch" title="2 Baruch">2 Baruch</a>, in which Baruch is promised he will ascend to heaven after forty days); <a href="/wiki/Levi" title="Levi">Levi</a> the ancestor of priests; the <a href="/wiki/Teacher_of_Righteousness" title="Teacher of Righteousness">Teacher of Righteousness</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Qumran" title="Qumran">Qumran</a> community; the prophet <a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Elijah</a> (from <a href="/wiki/2_Kings" class="mw-redirect" title="2 Kings">2 Kings</a>); <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, who was deified on entering heaven; and the children of <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Job</a>, who according to the <a href="/wiki/Testament_of_Job" title="Testament of Job">Testament of Job</a> ascended heaven following their <a href="/wiki/Universal_resurrection" title="Universal resurrection">resurrection from the dead</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMunoa2000109-27">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZwiep201616-28">[27]</a> Non-Jewish readers would have been familiar with the case of the emperor <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>, whose ascent was witnessed by Senators; <a href="/wiki/Romulus" title="Romulus">Romulus</a> the founder of Rome, who, like Jesus, was taken to heaven in a cloud; the Greek hero <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> (Hercules); and others.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald200421-14">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theology">Theology</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Theology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">Christian theology</a>, the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus are the most important events, and a foundation of the Christian faith.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn198553-29">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009149-30">[29]</a> The early followers of Jesus believed that <a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">God</a> had vindicated Jesus after his death, as reflected in the stories about his resurrection, ascension, and exaltation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossLivingstone2005114-3">[3]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Christian">early followers of Jesus</a> soon believed that Jesus was raised as <a href="/wiki/Firstborn_(Judaism)" title="Firstborn (Judaism)">first of the dead</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENovakovic2014152-31">[30]</a> taken into Heaven, and <a href="/wiki/Exaltation_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Exaltation of Jesus">exalted</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENovakovic2014135-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHurtado2005508,_591-2">[2]</a> <a href="/wiki/Heavenly_session" class="mw-redirect" title="Heavenly session">taking the seat at the right hand of God</a> in Heaven, as stated in the <a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">Apostles' Creed</a>: "He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossLivingstone2005114-3">[3]</a> <a href="/wiki/Psalm_110" title="Psalm 110">Psalm 110</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Psalms%20110:1&version=nrsv">Psalms 110:1</a>) played an essential role in this interpretation of Jesus' death and the resurrection appearances: "The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." It provided an interpretative frame for Jesus' followers to make sense of his death and the resurrection appearances.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009218-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossLivingstone2005114-3">[3]</a> This understanding is summarized by the theologian <a href="/wiki/Justus_Knecht" title="Justus Knecht">Justus Knecht</a> who wrote: "Our Lord went up Body and Soul into heaven in the sight of His apostles, by His own power, to take possession of His glory, and to be our Advocate and Mediator in heaven with the Father. He ascended as Man, as Head of the redeemed, and has prepared a dwelling in heaven for all those who follow in His steps (Sixth article of <a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">the Creed</a>)."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnecht1910729-33">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cosmology">Cosmology</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cosmology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Biblical_cosmology" title="Biblical cosmology">cosmology</a> of the author of Luke–Acts reflects the beliefs of his age,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009148-34">[33]</a> which envisioned a three-part cosmos with the heavens above, an Earth centered on Jerusalem in the middle, and the <a href="/wiki/Underworld" title="Underworld">underworld</a> below.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWright200253-35">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENajman201493-36">[35]</a> Heaven was separated from the Earth by the <a href="/wiki/Firmament" title="Firmament">firmament</a>, the visible sky, a solid inverted bowl where God's palace sat on pillars in the celestial sea.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPennington200741-42-37">[36]</a> Humans looking up from Earth saw the floor of Heaven, made of clear blue <a href="/wiki/Lapis-lazuli" class="mw-redirect" title="Lapis-lazuli">lapis-lazuli</a> (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Exodus#24:9" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Exodus">Exodus 24:9–10</a>), as was God's throne (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Ezekiel#1:26" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Ezekiel">Ezekiel 1:26</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWright200254,56-38">[37]</a> According to Dunn, "the typical mind-set and worldview of the time conditioned what was actually seen and how the recording of such seeings was conceptualized,"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009148-34">[33]</a> and "departure into heaven could only be conceived in terms of 'being taken up ', a literal ascension."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009148-34">[33]</a> In modern times, a literal reading of the ascension-stories has become problematic, due to the differences between the pre-scientific cosmology of the times of Jesus, and the scientific worldview that leaves no place for a Heaven above earth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeim200923-39">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow201116-40">[39]</a> Theologian <a href="/wiki/James_Dunn_(theologian)" title="James Dunn (theologian)">James Dunn</a> describes the Ascension as at best a puzzle and at worst an embarrassment for an age that no longer conceives of a physical Heaven located above the Earth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeim200923-39">[38]</a> Similarly, in the words of McGill University's Douglas Farrow, in modern times the ascension is seen less as the climax of the mystery of Christ than as "something of an embarrassment in the age of the telescope and the space probe,"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow201116-40">[39]</a> an "idea [that] conjures up an outdated cosmology."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow20049-41">[40]</a> Yet, according to Dunn, a sole focus on this disparity is beside the real importance of Jesus' ascension, namely the resurrection and subsequent exaltation of Jesus.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009149-30">[29]</a> Farrow notes that, already in the third century, the ascension-story was read by <a href="/wiki/Origen" title="Origen">Origen</a> in a mystical way, as an "ascension of the mind rather than of the body," representing one of two basic ascension theologies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow201117-42">[41]</a> The real problem is the fact that Jesus is both present and absent,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow20043,_8-43">[42]</a> an ambiguity which points to a "something more" to which the Eucharist gives entry.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow20043-44">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[note 2]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islam">Islam</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Islam" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The same doctrine takes on another <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam#Ascension" title="Jesus in Islam">meaning for Muslims</a>: most Islamic scholars hold that Jesus, the penultimate prophet of Islam, was not crucified or resurrected but his body directly ascended.<a href="#cite_note-Hughes_2013-48">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-Reynolds_2009-49">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-Lanier_2016-50">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonreligious_views">Nonreligious views</h3> <a role="button" 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(May 2024) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv/270px--The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="270" height="152" data-durationhint="209" data-mwtitle="The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' data-width="1024" data-height="576"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv.360p.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv/The_Ascension_of_Jesus_-_Orthodox.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source></video><figcaption>Orthodox <a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ascension" title="Feast of the Ascension">Feast of the Ascension</a></figcaption></figure> The Feast of the Ascension is a major <a href="/wiki/Feast_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Feast day">feast day</a> of the Christian <a href="/wiki/Liturgical_year" title="Liturgical year">liturgical year</a>, along with the <a href="/wiki/Passion_of_Jesus" title="Passion of Jesus">Passion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuast201145-12">[11]</a> Ascension Day is traditionally celebrated on the sixth Thursday after Easter Sunday, the fortieth day from <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a> day, although some <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> provinces have moved the observance to the following Sunday to facilitate the obligation to attend Mass. <a href="/wiki/Saint_Jerome" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Jerome">Saint Jerome</a> held that it was of apostolic origin, but in fact the Ascension was originally part of <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a> (the coming of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a>), and developed as a separate celebration only slowly from the late 4th century onward. In the Catholic tradition it begins with a three-day "rogation" to ask for God's mercy, and the feast itself includes a procession of torches and banners symbolising Christ's journey to the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a> and entry into Heaven, the extinguishing of the <a href="/wiki/Paschal_candle" title="Paschal candle">Paschal candle</a>, and an all-night vigil; white is the liturgical colour. The feast was retained at the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>. It continues to be observed in <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a>, and most <a href="/wiki/Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Reformed</a> churches. Most of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Christian">Eastern Christian</a> tradition (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodox">Oriental Orthodox</a> and some[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">which?</a>] <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Catholic">Eastern Catholic</a> Churches, and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a>), based on the <a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a>, has a slightly different computation, up to a month later than in the Western tradition. Other denominations, such as the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren">Plymouth Brethren</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a>, do not celebrate it as they do not adhere to the traditional Christian calendar of feasts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuast201145-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStokl-Ben-Ezra2007286-13">[12]</a> One of the Ascension hymns is <a href="/wiki/Christ_fuhr_gen_Himmel" title="Christ fuhr gen Himmel">Christ fuhr gen Himmel</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="In_Christian_art">In Christian art</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In Christian art" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus_in_Christian_art" title="Ascension of Jesus in Christian art">Ascension of Jesus in Christian art</a></div> The Ascension of Jesus has been a frequent subject in <a href="/wiki/Christian_art" title="Christian art">Christian art</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBecchioSchad%C3%A92006unpaginated-51">[49]</a> By the 6th century, the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century, ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaggley2000137-138-52">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJensen200851-53-53">[51]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Rabbula_Gospels" title="Rabbula Gospels">Rabbula Gospels</a> (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the ascension.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJensen200851-53-53">[51]</a> Many ascension scenes have two parts, an upper (Heavenly) part and a lower (earthly) part. The ascending Christ may be carrying a resurrection cross-banner or make a sign of benediction with his right hand.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEarls198726-27-54">[52]</a> The blessing gesture by Christ with his right hand is directed towards the earthly group below him and signifies that he is blessing the entire Church.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOuspenskyLossky1999197-10">[9]</a> In the left hand, he may be holding a Gospel or a scroll, signifying teaching and preaching.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOuspenskyLossky1999197-10">[9]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern Orthodox</a> portrayal of the ascension is a major metaphor for the mystical nature of the Church.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENes200587-55">[53]</a> In many Eastern icons, the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a> is placed at the center of the scene in the earthly part of the depiction, with her hands raised towards Heaven, often accompanied by various Apostles.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENes200587-55">[53]</a> The upwards-looking depiction of the earthly group matches the Eastern liturgy on the Feast of the Ascension: "Come, let us rise and turn our eyes and thoughts high ..."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOuspenskyLossky1999197-10">[9]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Olivet_and_the_Chapel_of_the_Ascension">Olivet and the Chapel of the Ascension</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Olivet and the Chapel of the Ascension" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Ascension_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg/170px-5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1127" data-file-height="1524"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 230px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg/170px-5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg" data-alt="" data-width="170" data-height="230" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg/255px-5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg/340px-5035-20080122-jerusalem-mt-olives-ascension-edicule.jpg 2x" 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data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Church_of_the_Ascension%2C_Jerusalem3001.JPG/255px-Church_of_the_Ascension%2C_Jerusalem3001.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Church_of_the_Ascension%2C_Jerusalem3001.JPG/340px-Church_of_the_Ascension%2C_Jerusalem3001.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Close-up of the Rock of the Ascension inside the Ascension edicule</div></div></div></div></div> The traditional site of the ascension is <a href="/wiki/Mount_Olivet" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Olivet">Mount Olivet</a> (the "Mount of Olives"), on which the village of Bethany sits. Before the conversion of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine the Great</a> in 312 AD, early Christians honored the ascension of Christ in a cave on the Mount, and by 384 the ascension was <a href="/wiki/Venerated" class="mw-redirect" title="Venerated">venerated</a> on the present site, uphill from the cave.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurphy-O'Connor2008142-56">[54]</a> Around the year 390 a wealthy <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">church</a> called "<a href="/wiki/Eleona_Basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleona Basilica">Eleona Basilica</a>" (elaion in Greek means "olive garden", from elaia "olive tree", and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning "mercy"). This church was destroyed by <a href="/wiki/Sassanid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Sassanid Empire">Sassanid Persians</a> in 614. It was subsequently rebuilt, destroyed, and rebuilt again by the <a href="/wiki/Crusaders" class="mw-redirect" title="Crusaders">Crusaders</a>. This final church was later destroyed by Muslims, leaving only a 12×12 meter octagonal structure (called a martyrium—"memorial"—or "<a href="/wiki/Edicule" class="mw-redirect" title="Edicule">edicule</a>") that remains to this day.<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] The site was ultimately acquired by two emissaries of <a href="/wiki/Saladin" title="Saladin">Saladin</a> in the year 1198 and has remained in the possession of the Islamic <a href="/wiki/Waqf" title="Waqf">Waqf</a> of Jerusalem ever since. The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> also maintains a <a href="/wiki/Convent" title="Convent">convent</a> of the ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gallery">Gallery</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Gallery" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Rabbula Gospels 6th century"><noscript><img alt="Rabbula Gospels 6th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg/154px-RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg" decoding="async" width="154" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="611" data-file-height="793"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 154px;height: 200px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg/154px-RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg" data-alt="Rabbula Gospels 6th century" data-width="154" data-height="200" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg/231px-RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg/308px-RabulaGospelsFol13vAscension.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Rabbula_Gospels" title="Rabbula Gospels">Rabbula Gospels</a> 6th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" 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li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> In Luke, the ascension seems to be on the same day as the resurrection. In <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Acts of the Apostles">Acts</a>, Jesus' ascension is situated on the fortieth day counting from the resurrection in the presence of eleven of his <a href="/wiki/Apostles_in_the_New_Testament" title="Apostles in the New Testament">apostles</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolwerda1979310-7">[7]</a> thereby putting a limit on the number of resurrection appearances,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009146-4">[4]</a> and effectively excluding <a href="/wiki/Conversion_of_Paul_the_Apostle#Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Conversion of Paul the Apostle">Paul's conversion experience</a> from the bona fide resurrection appearances.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunn2009140-8">[8]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a> According to Farrow, this ambiguity of absence and presence poses central christological and theological questions concerning the identity of the church and its relation to past (death and resurrection) and future (second coming) events,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow20048-9-45">[44]</a> and to the present world, in which it is situated, but from which it is also different, through "its mysterious union with one whose life, though lived for the world, involves a genuine break with it."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrow200411-46">[45]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Citations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENovakovic2014135-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENovakovic2014135_1-0">a</a> 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Walter de Gruyter. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-11-020299-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-11-020299-1"><bdi>978-3-11-020299-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Resurrected+Body+in+Luke-Acts%3A+The+Significance+of+Space&rft.btitle=Metamorphoses%3A+Resurrection%2C+Body+and+Transformative+Practices+in+Early+Christianity&rft.pub=Walter+de+Gruyter&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-3-11-020299-1&rft.aulast=Seim&rft.aufirst=Turid+Karlsen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGCRjbbjW39EC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStokl-Ben-Ezra2007" class="citation book cs1">Stokl-Ben-Ezra, Daniel (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UfivCQAAQBAJ&q=%22ascension+developed+only+slowly+from+the+late+fourth%22&pg=PA286">"Parody and Polemics on Pentecost"</a>. In Gerhards, Albert; Leonhard, Clemens (eds.). Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship. BRILL. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-474-2241-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-474-2241-9"><bdi>978-90-474-2241-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Parody+and+Polemics+on+Pentecost&rft.btitle=Jewish+and+Christian+Liturgy+and+Worship&rft.pub=BRILL&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-90-474-2241-9&rft.aulast=Stokl-Ben-Ezra&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DUfivCQAAQBAJ%26q%3D%2522ascension%2Bdeveloped%2Bonly%2Bslowly%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2Blate%2Bfourth%2522%26pg%3DPA286&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompson2010" class="citation book cs1">Thompson, Richard P. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ygcgn8h-jo4C&q=%22Chapter+19+Luke-Acts%22&pg=PA318">"Luke-Acts: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles"</a>. In Aune, David E. (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to The New Testament. Wiley–Blackwell. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4443-1894-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4443-1894-4"><bdi>978-1-4443-1894-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Luke-Acts%3A+The+Gospel+of+Luke+and+the+Acts+of+the+Apostles&rft.btitle=The+Blackwell+Companion+to+The+New+Testament&rft.pub=Wiley%E2%80%93Blackwell&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-4443-1894-4&rft.aulast=Thompson&rft.aufirst=Richard+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dygcgn8h-jo4C%26q%3D%2522Chapter%2B19%2BLuke-Acts%2522%26pg%3DPA318&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWright2002" class="citation book cs1">Wright, J. Edward (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lKvMeMorNBEC&q=%22The+ancient+Israelites+imagined+the+universe+as+a+tripartite+structure%22&pg=PA53">The Early History of Heaven</a>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-802981-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-802981-6"><bdi>978-0-19-802981-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Early+History+of+Heaven&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-19-802981-6&rft.aulast=Wright&rft.aufirst=J.+Edward&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlKvMeMorNBEC%26q%3D%2522The%2Bancient%2BIsraelites%2Bimagined%2Bthe%2Buniverse%2Bas%2Ba%2Btripartite%2Bstructure%2522%26pg%3DPA53&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZwiep2016" class="citation book cs1">Zwiep, Arie W. (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=u1N4DQAAQBAJ&q=%22recent+biblical+scholarship+on+the+Lukan+ascension+narratives%22&pg=PA7">"Ascension scholarship past present and future"</a>. In Pao, David W.; Bryan, David K. (eds.). Ascent into Heaven in Luke-Acts: New Explorations of Luke's Narrative Hinge. Fortress Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5064-1896-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5064-1896-4"><bdi>978-1-5064-1896-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ascension+scholarship+past+present+and+future&rft.btitle=Ascent+into+Heaven+in+Luke-Acts%3A+New+Explorations+of+Luke%27s+Narrative+Hinge&rft.pub=Fortress+Press&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-1-5064-1896-4&rft.aulast=Zwiep&rft.aufirst=Arie+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Du1N4DQAAQBAJ%26q%3D%2522recent%2Bbiblical%2Bscholarship%2Bon%2Bthe%2BLukan%2Bascension%2Bnarratives%2522%26pg%3DPA7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ascension_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Aune, David (2003b). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nhhdJ-fkywYC&q=%22knowledge+of+ancient+cosmologies%22%22interpreting+early+Christian+literature%22&pg=PA118">"Cosmology"</a>. The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric. Westminster John Knox Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-664-21917-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-664-21917-8"><bdi>978-0-664-21917-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Cosmology&rft.btitle=The+Westminster+Dictionary+of+New+Testament+and+Early+Christian+Literature+and+Rhetoric&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-664-21917-8&rft.aulast=Aune&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnhhdJ-fkywYC%26q%3D%2522knowledge%2Bof%2Bancient%2Bcosmologies%2522%2522interpreting%2Bearly%2BChristian%2Bliterature%2522%26pg%3DPA118&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Burkett, Delbert (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EcsQknxV-xQC&q=%2213+The+Gospel+of+Luke%22&pg=PA195">An introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity</a>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-00720-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-00720-7"><bdi>978-0-521-00720-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+introduction+to+the+New+Testament+and+the+origins+of+Christianity&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-521-00720-7&rft.aulast=Burkett&rft.aufirst=Delbert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DEcsQknxV-xQC%26q%3D%252213%2BThe%2BGospel%2Bof%2BLuke%2522%26pg%3DPA195&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Charlesworth, James H. (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YTIGy5t45WgC&q=%22The+composition+of+Luke-Acts%22%2C%22usually+dated+around+80-90%22%2C%22perhaps+between+90+and+110%22&pg=PT64">The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide</a>. Abingdon Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4267-2475-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4267-2475-6"><bdi>978-1-4267-2475-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus%3A+An+Essential+Guide&rft.pub=Abingdon+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-4267-2475-6&rft.aulast=Charlesworth&rft.aufirst=James+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYTIGy5t45WgC%26q%3D%2522The%2Bcomposition%2Bof%2BLuke-Acts%2522%252C%2522usually%2Bdated%2Baround%2B80-90%2522%252C%2522perhaps%2Bbetween%2B90%2Band%2B110%2522%26pg%3DPT64&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Collins, Adela Yarbro (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eZv1JZAHdg0C&q=cosmology+hebrew+bible&pg=PA26">Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism</a>. BRILL. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-11927-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-11927-7"><bdi>978-90-04-11927-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cosmology+and+Eschatology+in+Jewish+and+Christian+Apocalypticism&rft.pub=BRILL&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-90-04-11927-7&rft.aulast=Collins&rft.aufirst=Adela+Yarbro&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DeZv1JZAHdg0C%26q%3Dcosmology%2Bhebrew%2Bbible%26pg%3DPA26&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Davies, J. G. (1958). He Ascended into Heaven, London: Lutterworth Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Dawson, Gerrit (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=krneBAAAQBAJ&q=Jesus+Ascended%3A+The+Meaning+of+Christ%27s+Continuing+Incarnation&pg=PA106">Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation</a>. Bloomsbury. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-567-11987-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-567-11987-2"><bdi>978-0-567-11987-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+Ascended%3A+The+Meaning+of+Christ%27s+Continuing+Incarnation&rft.pub=Bloomsbury&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-567-11987-2&rft.aulast=Dawson&rft.aufirst=Gerrit&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkrneBAAAQBAJ%26q%3DJesus%2BAscended%253A%2BThe%2BMeaning%2Bof%2BChrist%2527s%2BContinuing%2BIncarnation%26pg%3DPA106&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDeharbe1912" class="citation book cs1">Deharbe, Joseph (1912). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Complete_Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Religion/Sixth_Article">"The Sixth Article: 'He ascended into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.'" </a>. A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion. Translated by Rev. John Fander. Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Sixth+Article%3A+%27He+ascended+into+Heaven%2C+sitteth+at+the+right+hand+of+God+the+Father+Almighty.%27&rft.btitle=A+Complete+Catechism+of+the+Catholic+Religion&rft.pub=Schwartz%2C+Kirwin+%26+Fauss&rft.date=1912&rft.aulast=Deharbe&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Farrow, Douglas (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2J9GBAAAQBAJ&q=%22an+absurdly+literal+interpretation+of+the+ascension%22&pg=PA16">Ascension Theology</a>. Bloomsbury. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-567-65188-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-567-65188-4"><bdi>978-0-567-65188-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ascension+Theology&rft.pub=Bloomsbury&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-567-65188-4&rft.aulast=Farrow&rft.aufirst=Douglas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D2J9GBAAAQBAJ%26q%3D%2522an%2Babsurdly%2Bliteral%2Binterpretation%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bascension%2522%26pg%3DPA16&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Hurtado, Larry W. (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k32wZRMxltUC&q=%22ascension+into+heaven%22%22Enoch%2C+Elijah+and+Moses%22&pg=PA345">Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity</a>. Eerdmans. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-3167-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-3167-5"><bdi>978-0-8028-3167-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lord+Jesus+Christ%3A+Devotion+to+Jesus+in+Earliest+Christianity&rft.pub=Eerdmans&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-8028-3167-5&rft.aulast=Hurtado&rft.aufirst=Larry+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dk32wZRMxltUC%26q%3D%2522ascension%2Binto%2Bheaven%2522%2522Enoch%252C%2BElijah%2Band%2BMoses%2522%26pg%3DPA345&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Knight, Douglas A.; Levine, Amy-Jill (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ox31oGXZzZQC&q=meaning+bene+elohim&pg=PT64">The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us</a>. HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-209859-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-209859-7"><bdi>978-0-06-209859-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Meaning+of+the+Bible%3A+What+the+Jewish+Scriptures+and+Christian+Old+Testament+Can+Teach+Us&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-06-209859-7&rft.aulast=Knight&rft.aufirst=Douglas+A.&rft.au=Levine%2C+Amy-Jill&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dox31oGXZzZQC%26q%3Dmeaning%2Bbene%2Belohim%26pg%3DPT64&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Lee, Sang Meyng (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=64p8Dmw8f-cC&q=New+Testament+cosmology&pg=PA65">The Cosmic Drama of Salvation</a>. Mohr Siebeck. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-16-150316-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-16-150316-0"><bdi>978-3-16-150316-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cosmic+Drama+of+Salvation&rft.pub=Mohr+Siebeck&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-3-16-150316-0&rft.aulast=Lee&rft.aufirst=Sang+Meyng&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D64p8Dmw8f-cC%26q%3DNew%2BTestament%2Bcosmology%26pg%3DPA65&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Lincoln, Andrew (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1LagRe8vKHQC&q=%22stated+in+its+classic+form+by+Bultmann%22%22The+New+Testament+and+Mythology%22&pg=PA4">Paradise Now and Not Yet</a>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-60939-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-60939-5"><bdi>978-0-521-60939-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Paradise+Now+and+Not+Yet&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-521-60939-5&rft.aulast=Lincoln&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D1LagRe8vKHQC%26q%3D%2522stated%2Bin%2Bits%2Bclassic%2Bform%2Bby%2BBultmann%2522%2522The%2BNew%2BTestament%2Band%2BMythology%2522%26pg%3DPA4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Packer, J. I. 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Crossway. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4335-2201-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4335-2201-7"><bdi>978-1-4335-2201-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Affirming+the+Apostles%27+Creed&rft.pub=Crossway&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-4335-2201-7&rft.aulast=Packer&rft.aufirst=J.+I.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiaNuAHjIQxIC%26q%3D%2522an%2Bemblem%2Bin%2Bspace%2Band%2Btime%2522%26pg%3DPT70&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Park, Eung Chun (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TBmEyFqjX8EC&q=%22it+is+extremely+difficult+to+know+how+early+Christianity+started%22&pg=PA21">Either Jew or Gentile: Paul's Unfolding Theology of Inclusivity</a>. Westminster John Knox Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-664-22453-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-664-22453-0"><bdi>978-0-664-22453-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Either+Jew+or+Gentile%3A+Paul%27s+Unfolding+Theology+of+Inclusivity&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-664-22453-0&rft.aulast=Park&rft.aufirst=Eung+Chun&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTBmEyFqjX8EC%26q%3D%2522it%2Bis%2Bextremely%2Bdifficult%2Bto%2Bknow%2Bhow%2Bearly%2BChristianity%2Bstarted%2522%26pg%3DPA21&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Vermes, Geza (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LRtcWtZzYGIC&q=%22the+idea+of+the++descent+and+ascent+of+the+son+of+man%22&pg=PP55">The Changing Faces of Jesus</a>. Penguin UK. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-191258-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-14-191258-5"><bdi>978-0-14-191258-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Changing+Faces+of+Jesus&rft.pub=Penguin+UK&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-14-191258-5&rft.aulast=Vermes&rft.aufirst=Geza&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DLRtcWtZzYGIC%26q%3D%2522the%2Bidea%2Bof%2Bthe%2B%2Bdescent%2Band%2Bascent%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bson%2Bof%2Bman%2522%26pg%3DPP55&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWynne1907" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Wynne, John Joseph (1907). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Ascension">"Ascension" </a>. 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BRILL. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-10897-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-10897-4"><bdi>978-90-04-10897-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Ascension+of+the+Messiah+in+Lukan+Christology&rft.pub=BRILL&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-90-04-10897-4&rft.aulast=Zwiep&rft.aufirst=Arie+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DQIW7JywiBhIC%26q%3D%2522The%2BAscension%2Bof%2Bthe%2BMessiah%2Bin%2BLukan%2BChristology%2522%26pg%3DPA182&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAscension+of+Jesus" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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title="Узнясенне Ісуса Хрыста – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Узнясенне Ісуса Хрыста" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8A%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Възнесение Господне – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Възнесение Господне" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascensi%C3%B3_de_Jes%C3%BAs" title="Ascensió de Jesús – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ascensió de Jesús" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanebevstoupen%C3%AD_P%C3%A1n%C4%9B" title="Nanebevstoupení Páně – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nanebevstoupení Páně" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%88%CE%B7_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%99%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%8D" title="Ανάληψη του Ιησού – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ανάληψη του Ιησού" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascensi%C3%B3n_de_Jes%C3%BAs" title="Ascensión de Jesús – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ascensión de Jesús" data-language-autonym="Español" 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