Hekhalot literature in context
Subtitle: between Byzantium and Babylonia
By: edited by Ra'anan Boustan, Martha Himmelfarb, and Peter Schäfer
Contributors: Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-; Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952-; Schäfer, Peter, 1943-
Series: Texts and studies in ancient Judaism -- 153 = -- Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 153.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9783161525759
Subjects: Hekhalot literature; Judaism; History and criticism; Hekhalot-literatuur; Congresses; 11.21 Jewish religious literature; Mysticism; Culturele aspecten
Other titles: Between Byzantium and Babylonia
Description: "Hekhalot literature, the earliest expression of Jewish mysticism, emerged in Palestine and Babylonia in late antiquity (ca. 500-900 C.E.). In the present volume, an international team of experts explores the literary formation, cultural meanings, religious functions, and textual transmission of this literature."--Back of dust jacket.
Notes: Selected papers from the "Hekhalot literature in context" conference held at Princeton University November 14-16, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-410) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Hekhalot literature at the intersections of Jewish regional cultures  -- Ra'anan Boustan; title: The formation of Hekhalot literature : linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts --; title: The language of Hekhalot literature : preliminary observations  -- Noam Mizrahi; title: Metatron in Babylonia  -- Peter Schäfer; title: Hekhalot and Piyyut : from Byzantium to Babylonia and back  -- Michael D. Swartz; title: The emperor's many bodies : the demise of emperor Lupinus revisited  -- Alexei Sivertsev; title: Jewish mysticism in Byzantium : the transformation of Merkavah mysticism in 3 Enoch  -- Klaus Herrmann; title: Between 3 Enoch and Bavli Hagigah : Heresiology and Orthopraxy in the Ascent of Elisha ben Abuyah  -- David M. Grossberg; title: Hekhalot literature, the babylonian academies, and the tanna'im  -- Moulie Vidas; title: The transmission and reception of Hekhalot literature : toward the middle ages --; title: The Hekhalot Genizah  -- Peter Schäfer; title: Observations on the transmission of Hekhalot literature in the Cairo Genizah  -- Gideon Bohak; title: A prolegomenon to the study of Hekhalot traditions in European Piyyut  -- Ophir Münz-Manor; title: Early Jewish mysticism in comparative perspective : themes and patterns --; title: Major trends in rabbinic cosmology  -- Reimund Leicht; title: Women and gender in the Hekhalot literature  -- Rebecca Lesses; title: "What is below?" : mysteries of Leviathan in the early jewish accounts and Mishnah Hagigah 2:1  -- Andrei A. Orlov; title: Rites of passage in magic and mysticism  -- Michael Meerson; title: Rethinking (Jewish- )Christian evidence for Jewish mysticism -- Annette Yoshiko Reed-- Bibliography-- Contributors-- Index of primary sources-- Index of proper names-- Index of modern scholars.