Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah LiteratureState University of New York Press, 01/02/2012 - 262 من الصفحات Beholders of Divine Secrets provides a fascinating exploration of the enigmatic Hekhalot and Merkavah literature, the Jewish mystical writings of late antiquity. Vita Daphna Arbel delves into the unique nature of the mystical teachings, experiences, revelations, and spiritual exegesis presented in this literature. While previous scholarship has demonstrated the connection between Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and parallel traditions in Rabbinical writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocalyptic, early Christian, and Gnostic sources, this work points out additional mythological traditions that resonate in this literature. Arbel suggests that mythological patterns of expression, as well as themes and models rooted in Near Eastern mythological traditions are employed, in a spiritualized fashion, to communicate mystical content. The possible cultural and social context of the Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and its composers is discussed. |
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الصفحة xii
... Schäfer in collaboration with M. Schlüter and H. G. von Mutius (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1981). Traditional titles of texts (“macroforms”) will be indicated as well. Genizah passages are cited from Geniza Fragmente zur Hekhalot Literatur ...
... Schäfer in collaboration with M. Schlüter and H. G. von Mutius (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1981). Traditional titles of texts (“macroforms”) will be indicated as well. Genizah passages are cited from Geniza Fragmente zur Hekhalot Literatur ...
الصفحة 10
... Schäfer sees this literature as an expression of an elite post-rabbinic group of scholars, originating in Babylonia. “People of the land,” including uneducated lower class rebels from a younger generation, were the writers of this ...
... Schäfer sees this literature as an expression of an elite post-rabbinic group of scholars, originating in Babylonia. “People of the land,” including uneducated lower class rebels from a younger generation, were the writers of this ...
الصفحة 11
... Schäfer suggested a different approach to the study of the manuscripts. Questioning the convention of separating the Hekhalot and Merkavah literature into fixed, defined, and independent textual units and books, Schäfer and his ...
... Schäfer suggested a different approach to the study of the manuscripts. Questioning the convention of separating the Hekhalot and Merkavah literature into fixed, defined, and independent textual units and books, Schäfer and his ...
الصفحة 12
... Schäfer, comprises twenty-three fragments from the Cairo Genizah. Photographs of the texts, comments, explanations and references to other related Hekhalot and Merkavah sources are also part of this edition.32 In several discussions, ...
... Schäfer, comprises twenty-three fragments from the Cairo Genizah. Photographs of the texts, comments, explanations and references to other related Hekhalot and Merkavah sources are also part of this edition.32 In several discussions, ...
الصفحة 13
... Schäfer argues that the literature does not provide any indication of how the heavenly ascent was carried out, or even if it was practiced at all. M. Himmelfarb assets that the literature includes stories to be repeated and not ...
... Schäfer argues that the literature does not provide any indication of how the heavenly ascent was carried out, or even if it was practiced at all. M. Himmelfarb assets that the literature includes stories to be repeated and not ...
المحتوى
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2 Hekhalot and Merkavah Mysticism | 21 |
3 Mythical Language of Hekhalot and Merkavah Mysticism | 51 |
4 Mystical Journeys in Mythological Language | 67 |
Mystical and Mythological Dimensions | 105 |
6 Literary Phenomenological Cultural and Social Implications | 139 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 211 |
Index of Passages Discussed | 237 |
Index of Authors | 247 |
General Index | 249 |
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