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Paradise now : essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism

Print Book, English, c2006
Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, c2006
xxiii, 455 p. ; 23 cm
9781589832572, 1589832574
1044615991
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
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