Apocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism /

Apocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism /

This is a new and revised edition of the book first published 1980. It contains new introductory and concluding chapters as well as a Bibliography and updated Index. Furthermore, substantial corrections, updates, and changes have been made in the original text. The changes concern matters of languag...

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Main Author: Gruenwald, Ithamar.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, [2014]

Edition: Second, revised ed.

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 90.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

Subjects:

Mysticism > Judaism.
Apocalyptic literature.
Throne of God.

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Call Number: BM723 .G78 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Quest for the Mystical Reality: Reflections on the Ontological Provenance of the Hekhalot Hymns and Visions
  • 2 Two Essential Qualities of Jewish Apocalyptic
  • 3 The Mystical Elements in Apocalyptic
  • 4 The Attitude Towards the Merkavah Speculations in the Literature of the Tannaim and Amoraim
  • 5 The Hekhalot Literature
  • Introduction
  • Reʾuyot Yeḥezkel
  • Hekhalot Zutarti
  • Hekhalot Rabbati
  • Maʿaseh Merkavah
  • Hekhalot Fragments
  • Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch)
  • Merkavah Rabbah
  • Masekhet Hekhalot
  • Shiʿur Qomah
  • Physiognomy, Chiromancy and Metoposcopy
  • Sefer Ha-Razim
  • Concluding Chapter When Magical Techniques and Mystical Practices Become Neighbors: Methodological Considerations
  • Appendices by Saul Lieberman
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.