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Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism April D. De Conick. tion from the visionary, is not susceptible to a definitive quest for the author's intention. Scholars have highlighted the literary activity of the author of Revelation ...
Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism April D. De Conick. tion from the visionary, is not susceptible to a definitive quest for the author's intention. Scholars have highlighted the literary activity of the author of Revelation ...
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Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism April D. De Conick. tion of the words of Exodus by the usurper of Isaiah and Ezekiel, with the person shifted from the second to the first and thus from the praise of god to the ...
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Contents
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The Emergence of the Mystical Traditions of the Merkabah | 83 |
The Ancient Jewish Apocalypses and the Hekhalot Literature | 105 |
Rabbi Ishmaels Priestly Genealogy in Hekhalot Literature | 127 |
The Temple Within | 145 |
Lessons on early Jewish apocalypticism and Mysticism from | 231 |
situating the afterlife | 249 |
eschatological sorrow divine weeping and Gods right | 265 |
The Therapeutae Text work ritual and Mystical experience | 287 |
Jewish and Christian Heavenly Meal Traditions | 313 |
Baptismal praxis and Mystical experience in the Book of revelation | 341 |
divine secrets and divination | 355 |
Bibliography | 381 |
Gods Face in the enochic Tradition | 179 |
wheels of Time in the apocalypse of Jesus Christ | 195 |
sexuality and Gender of angels | 211 |
Contributors | 419 |
index of Modern authors | 449 |
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Page 215 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake ; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow : and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
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Page 334 - Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
Page 328 - And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves : for I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Page 342 - I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. 13 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Page 334 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Page 334 - No man can come to Me, except the Father Which hath sent Me draw him : and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me.
Page 179 - And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Page 13 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand : also they saw God, and did eat and drink.