Paradise now
Subtitle: essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism
By: edited by April D. DeConick.
Contributors: De Conick, April D.
Series: Society of Biblical Literature symposium series -- no. 11
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9781589832572
Subjects: Mysticism -- Judaism -- History.; Mysticism -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-418) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Religious experience and the construction of the transcendent self / Alan F. Segal; title: Visionary experience in ancient Judaism and Christianity / Christopher Rowland with Patricia Gibbons and Vicente Dobroruka; title: Performative exegesis / Seth L. Sanders; title: The emrgence of the mystical traditions of the merkabah / Rachel Elior; title: The ancient Jewish apocalypses and the hekhalot literature / James Davila; title: Rabbi Ishmael's priestly genealogy in hekhalot literature / Ra'anan S. Boustan; title: The temple within / R. A. Morray-Jones; title: God's face in the Enochic tradition / Andrei A. Orlov; title: Wheels of time in the apocalypse of Jesus Christ / Cameron C. Afzal; title: Sexuality and gender of angels / Kevin Sullivan; title: Lessons on early Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism from dream literature / Frances Flannery-Dailey; title: Situating the afterlife / Kelley Coblentz Bautch; title: Eschatological sorrow, divine weeping, and God's right arm / Rebecca Lesses; title: The therapeutae, text work, ritual and mystical experience / Celia Deutsch; title: Jewish and Christian heavenly meal traditions / Andrea Lieber; title: Baptismal praxis and mystical experience in the book of Revelation / Charles A. Gieschen; title: Divine secrets and divination / Daphna Arbel.