The Mystery of God : Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament


Christopher. Rowland
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Leiden : : BRILL, , 2009.
Omfang
1 online resource (716 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Editors' Preface; Foreword; On Transliterations and Abbreviations; PART I THINGS INTO WHICH ANGELS LONG TO LOOK: APPROACHING MYSTICISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE JEWISH APOCALYPSES by Christopher Rowland; Chapter One Mysticism and New Testament; Chapter Two Apocalypticism: the Disclosure of Heavenly K nowledge; Chapter Three Enoch in Jewish and Early Christian Tradition; Chapter Four Revelation and the Apocalyptic Visions of God; Chapter Five The Mystical Element in the Gospels and Acts; Chapter Six Paul and the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. - Chapter Seven Christ Hidden and Revealed: Hebrews, Ephesians and Related TextsChapter Eight The Ascension of Isaiah and the Road to Gnosticism; Chapter Nine Things into which Angels Long to Look: Apocalypticism, Mysticism and Eschatology in the New Testament; PART II DIVINE NAMES, CELESTIAL SANCTUARIES, AND VISIONARY ASCENTS: APPROACHING THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MERKAVA TRADITIONS by Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones; Chapter Ten Merkava Mysticism in Rabbinic and Hekhalot Literature; Chapter Eleven A Version of Hekhalot Zutarti. - Chapter Sixteen Shiur Koma Traditions in Jewish and Hellenistic SourcesChapter Seventeen The Epistle to the Ephesians; Cumulative Bibliography; Source Index; Index of Subjects and Names. - Chapter Twelve The Temple Within: The Embodied Divine Image and its Worship in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish and Christian SourcesChapter Thirteen The Ascent into Paradise: Paul's Apostolic Calling and its Background; Chapter Fourteen Methods and Assumptions in Interpreting M ystical and Rabbinic Texts: The Case of the Four Who Entered Pardes; PART III THE BODY OF THE GLORY: APPROACHING THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM THE P ERSPECTIVE OF SHIUR KOMA TRADITIONS by Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones; Chapter Fifteen The Shiur Koma and the Angelic 'Youth'. - This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate the New Testament. The first part explores the importance of apocalypticism across the whole of the New Testament, and the second part the relevance of Jewish mystical to the New Testament.
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