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

Contributor(s): De Conick, April D
Material type: TextTextSeries: Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature): Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Society of Biblical Literature, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xxiii, 455 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781589832572 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1589832574 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mysticism -- Judaism -- History | Mysticism -- HistoryDDC classification: 296.8/1 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
What is early Jewish and Christian mysticism? / April D. Deconick -- 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 emergence 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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

What is early Jewish and Christian mysticism? / April D. Deconick -- 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 emergence 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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