Hekhalot literature in translation
Subtitle: major texts of Merkavah mysticism
By: by James Davila
Series: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy -- volume 20; Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy -- v. 20.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9789004252158; 9789004252165
Subjects: Hekhalot literature; Übersetzung; Śar ha-Torah; Judaism; Merkava; Cairo Genizah; History and criticism; Heikhalot; Maʻaśeh merkavah; Heikhalot rabbati; Kitve-yad ha-Genizah; Englisch; Heikhalot zutrati; Mysticism; Merkavah rabba; Merkaba-Mystik
Description: The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of textually fluid and often textually corrupt documents in Hebrew and Aramaic which deal with mystical themes pertaining especially to God's throne-chariot (the Merkavah). They were composed between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with roots in earlier traditions and a long and complex subsequent history of transmission. This volume presents English translations of eclectic critical texts, with a full apparatus of variants, of most of the major Hekhalot documents: 'Hekhalot Rabbati'; 'Sar Torah'; 'Hekhalot Zutarti'; 'Ma'aseh Merkavah'; 'Merkavah Rabba'; briefer macroforms: 'The Chapter of R. Nehuniah ben HaQanah', 'The Great Seal-Fearsome Crown', 'Sar Panim', 'The Ascent of Elijah ben Avuyah', and 'The Youth'; and the Hekhalot fragments from the Cairo Geniza.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Hekhalot Rabbati: the greater (book of the heavenly) palaces; title: Sar Torah: the prince of Torah; title: Hekhalot Zutarti: the lesser (book of the heavenly) palaces; title: Ma'aseh merkavah: the working of the chariot; title: Merkavah Rabba: the great (book of the) chariot; title: Some shorter macroforms; title: Geniza fragments.