Description
This collection of essays is a tribute to Rachel Elior’s decades of teaching, scholarship and mentoring. If a Festschrift reflects the individuality of the honoree, then this volume offers insights into the scope of Rachel Elior’s interests and scholarly achievements in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish apocalypticism, magic, and mysticism from the Second Temple period to the later rabbinic and Hekhalot developments. The majority of articles included in the volume deal with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical texts constituting the core of experiential dimension of these religious traditions.
Chapter
Scriptural Exegesis in the Treatise of the Vessels, A Legendary Account of the Hiding of the Temple Treasures
Cultivating Visions through Exegetical Meditations
“Serpentine” Eve in Syriac Christian Literature of Late Antiquity
From “Pre-Emptive Exegesis” to “Pre-Emptive Speculation”? Ma‘aseh Bereshit in Genesis Rabbah and Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer
Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem in Philo and Paul: A Tale of Two Cities
The Book of Watchers and the Cycle of New Year Festivals
A Different Spirituality or “Other” Agents?: On the Study of Magic in Rabbinic Literature
“They Revealed Secrets to Their Wives”: The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch
The Impurity of Oil and Spit amongthe Qumran Sectarians
“The Likeness of Heaven”: The Kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer?
“A Chariot of Light Borne by Four Bright Eagles”: Eve’s Vision of the Chariot in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
“Messianic Movements in the Period of the Crusades”
Jesus Revealed: The Dynamics of Early Christian Mysticism
Aseneth: Ascetical Practice, Vision and Transformation
“You Are Gods”: Multiple Divine Beings in Late Antique Jewish Theology
Cultivating Visions through Exegetical Meditations
“Serpentine” Eve in Syriac Christian Literature of Late Antiquity
From “Pre-Emptive Exegesis” to “Pre-Emptive Speculation”? Ma‘aseh Bereshit in Genesis Rabbah and Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer
Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem in Philo and Paul: A Tale of Two Cities
The Book of Watchers and the Cycle of New Year Festivals
A Different Spirituality or “Other” Agents?: On the Study of Magic in Rabbinic Literature
“They Revealed Secrets to Their Wives”: The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch
The Impurity of Oil and Spit amongthe Qumran Sectarians
“The Likeness of Heaven”: The Kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer?
“A Chariot of Light Borne by Four Bright Eagles”: Eve’s Vision of the Chariot in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
“Messianic Movements in the Period of the Crusades”
Jesus Revealed: The Dynamics of Early Christian Mysticism
Aseneth: Ascetical Practice, Vision and Transformation
“You Are Gods”: Multiple Divine Beings in Late Antique Jewish Theology
With Letters of Light
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