Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

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April D. De Conick
Society of Biblical Lit, 2006 - 455 من الصفحات

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What Is Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism?
1
Religious Experience and the Construction of the Transcendent Self
27
Visionary Experience in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
41
Performative Exegesis
57
The Emergence of the Mystical Traditions of the Merkabah
83
The Ancient Jewish Apocalypses and the Hekhalot Literature
105
Rabbi Ishmaels Priestly Genealogy in Hekhalot Literature
127
The Temple Within
145
Lessons on early Jewish apocalypticism and Mysticism from
231
situating the afterlife
249
eschatological sorrow divine weeping and Gods right
265
The Therapeutae Text work ritual and Mystical experience
287
Jewish and Christian Heavenly Meal Traditions
313
Baptismal praxis and Mystical experience in the Book of revelation
341
divine secrets and divination
355
Bibliography
381

Gods Face in the enochic Tradition
179
wheels of Time in the apocalypse of Jesus Christ
195
sexuality and Gender of angels
211
Contributors
419
index of Modern authors
449
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الصفحة 215 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake ; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow : and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
الصفحة xiii - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies...
الصفحة 334 - Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
الصفحة 328 - And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves : for I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
الصفحة 342 - I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. 13 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
الصفحة 334 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
الصفحة 334 - No man can come to Me, except the Father Which hath sent Me draw him : and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me.
الصفحة 179 - And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
الصفحة 13 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand : also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

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