Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian MysticismApril D. De Conick |
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... Hebrew Union College Annual HUCM iBC iCC Imm JAOS Monographs of the Hebrew Union College interpretation: a Bible Commentary for Teaching and preaching international Critical Commentary Immanuel Journal of the American Oriental Society ...
... Hebrew Union College Annual HUCM iBC iCC Imm JAOS Monographs of the Hebrew Union College interpretation: a Bible Commentary for Teaching and preaching international Critical Commentary Immanuel Journal of the American Oriental Society ...
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... Hebrew thought and the doctrine of resurrection that is party to it . Exegesis alone would never have been sufficient for demonstrating to Hebrew society , which had eschewed views of the afterlife for so long , that God was actually ...
... Hebrew thought and the doctrine of resurrection that is party to it . Exegesis alone would never have been sufficient for demonstrating to Hebrew society , which had eschewed views of the afterlife for so long , that God was actually ...
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... Hebrew suggested to later interpreters that , by looking at the blue cord ( tekelet ) , one would not look at it but at the divine world . “ Rabbi Meir said : ' It does not say , And you shall look upon it , but And you shall look upon ...
... Hebrew suggested to later interpreters that , by looking at the blue cord ( tekelet ) , one would not look at it but at the divine world . “ Rabbi Meir said : ' It does not say , And you shall look upon it , but And you shall look upon ...
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... Hebrew qeren . 26. Babylonian Astronomical Commentary CT 26 43 viii 5–10 , cited after CAD , s.v. šarūru , lexical section , which contains an abundance of further examples . 27. The Mesopotamian view of the sheer physicality of light ...
... Hebrew qeren . 26. Babylonian Astronomical Commentary CT 26 43 viii 5–10 , cited after CAD , s.v. šarūru , lexical section , which contains an abundance of further examples . 27. The Mesopotamian view of the sheer physicality of light ...
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... Hebrew , ” JBL 86 ( 1967 ) : 320–24 . 35. H. L. Ginsberg , “ The Oldest Interpretation of the Suffering Servant , VT 3 ( 1953 ) : 400-404 . the phrase parallels the key terms from Isa 53:11 , SANDERS : PERFORMATIVE EXEGESIS 69.
... Hebrew , ” JBL 86 ( 1967 ) : 320–24 . 35. H. L. Ginsberg , “ The Oldest Interpretation of the Suffering Servant , VT 3 ( 1953 ) : 400-404 . the phrase parallels the key terms from Isa 53:11 , SANDERS : PERFORMATIVE EXEGESIS 69.
Contents
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The Emergence of the Mystical Traditions of the Merkabah | 83 |
The Ancient Jewish Apocalypses and the Hekhalot Literature | 105 |
Rabbi Ishmaels Priestly Genealogy in Hekhalot Literature | 127 |
The Temple Within | 145 |
Lessons on early Jewish apocalypticism and Mysticism from | 231 |
situating the afterlife | 249 |
eschatological sorrow divine weeping and Gods right | 265 |
The Therapeutae Text work ritual and Mystical experience | 287 |
Jewish and Christian Heavenly Meal Traditions | 313 |
Baptismal praxis and Mystical experience in the Book of revelation | 341 |
divine secrets and divination | 355 |
Bibliography | 381 |
Gods Face in the enochic Tradition | 179 |
wheels of Time in the apocalypse of Jesus Christ | 195 |
sexuality and Gender of angels | 211 |
Contributors | 419 |
index of Modern authors | 449 |
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Page 215 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake ; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow : and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
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Page 334 - Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
Page 328 - And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves : for I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Page 342 - I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. 13 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Page 334 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Page 334 - No man can come to Me, except the Father Which hath sent Me draw him : and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me.
Page 179 - And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Page 13 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand : also they saw God, and did eat and drink.