With Letters of Light

by Arbel, Daphna V.

• ISBN13: 9783110222012
• ISBN10: 3110222019
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Summary

This volume offers valuable insights into a wide range of scholarly achievements in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish apocalypticism, magic, and mysticism from the Second Temple period to the later rabbinic and Hekhalot developments. The majority of articles included in the volume deal with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical texts constituting the core of experiential dimension of these religious traditions.

Table of Contents

Rachel Elior - An Appreciation from her Colleagues and Students	p. 1
The Consideration of Religious Experience in the Work of Rachel Elior	p. 6
Exegesis
Peter and the Patriarch: A Confluence of Traditions?	p. 13
In Heaven or on Earth: A Misplaced Temple Question about Ezekiel's Visions	p. 28
Scriptural Exegesis in the Treatise of the Vessels, a Legendary Account of the Hiding of the Temple Treasures	p. 45
Cultivating Visions through Exegetical Meditations	p. 62
ôSerpentineö Eve in Syriac Christian Literature of Late Antiquity	p. 92
From ôPre-Emptive Exegesisö to ôPre-Emptive Speculationö? Ma'aseh Bereshit in Genesis Rabbah and Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer	p. 115
Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem in Philo and Paul: A Tale of Two Cities	p. 133
Ritual
The Book of Watchers and the Cycle of New Year Festivals	p. 159
A Different Spirituality or 'Other' Agents?: On the Study of Magic in Rabbinic Literature	p. 169
ôThey Revealed Secrets to Their Wivesö: The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch	p. 196
The Impurity of Oil and Spit among the Qumran Sectarians	p. 223
ôThe Likeness of Heavenö: The Kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham	p. 232
Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer?	p. 254
Transformation
ôA Chariot of Light Borne by Four Bright Eaglesö: Eve's Vision of the Chariot in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve	p. 267
ôMessianic Movements in the Period of the Crusadesö	p. 285
Jesus Revealed: The Dynamics of Early Christian Mysticism	p. 299
Aseneth: Ascetical Practice, Vision, and Transformation	p. 325
ôYou Are Godsö: Multiple Divine Beings in Late Antique Jewish Theology	p. 349
Transcribing Experience	p. 365
Bibliography	p. 383
Index	p. 449
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