Paradise Now: Essays On Early Jewish And Christian Mysticism
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\ Edited By April D. DeConick
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Atlanta
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: Society Of Biblical Literature
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, 2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxiii, 455 p.
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(Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 11)
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Code E.Book: 10756
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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 Davil -- 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.