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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828412303321

Titolo

Paradise now [[electronic resource] ] : essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism / / edited by April D. DeConick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, 2006

ISBN

1-58983-326-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Collana

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; ; no. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

De ConickApril D

Disciplina

296.8/1

Soggetti

Mysticism - Judaism - History

Mysticism - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Religious experience and the construction of the transcendent self / Alan F. Segal -- Visionary experience in ancient Judaism and Christianity / Christopher Rowland with Patricia Gibbons and Vicente Dobroruka -- Performative exegesis / Seth L. Sanders -- The emrgence of the mystical traditions of the merkabah / Rachel Elior -- The ancient Jewish apocalypses and the hekhalot literature / James Davila -- Rabbi Ishmael's priestly genealogy in hekhalot literature / Ra'anan S. Boustan -- The temple within / R. A. Morray-Jones -- God's face in the Enochic tradition / Andrei A. Orlov -- Wheels of time in the apocalypse of Jesus Christ / Cameron C. Afzal -- Sexuality and gender of angels / Kevin Sullivan -- Lessons on early Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism from dream literature / Frances Flannery-Dailey -- Situating the afterlife / Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- Eschatological sorrow, divine weeping, and God's right arm / Rebecca Lesses -- The therapeutae, text work, ritual and mystical experience / Celia Deutsch -- Jewish and Christian heavenly meal traditions / Andrea Lieber -- Baptismal praxis and mystical experience in the book of Revelation / Charles A. Gieschen -- Divine secrets and divination / Daphna Arbel.