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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Conick, April D.

Series:

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 11.

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Judaism--History.

Mysticism.

Mysticism--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-58983-326-0

OCLC:

191952588