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Hekhalot literature in translation : major texts of Merkavah mysticism / by Davila, James R., 1960-

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The three temples : on the emergence of Jewish mysticism by Elior, Rachel

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Beholders of divine secrets : mysticism and myth in Hekhalot and merkavah literature by Arbel, Vita Daphna

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Heavenly tablets : interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism

Table of Contents: “…Amulets and angels: visionary experience in the Testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature /…”
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Snapshots of evolving traditions : Jewish and Christian manuscript culture, textual fluidity, and new philology

Table of Contents: “…Translating the Hekhalot Literature: Insights from New Philology --…”
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Paradise now : essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism

Table of Contents: “…Sanders -- The emrgence of the mystical traditions of the merkabah / Rachel Elior -- The ancient Jewish apocalypses and the hekhalot literature / James Davila -- Rabbi Ishmael's priestly genealogy in hekhalot literature / Ra'anan S. …”
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Apocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism by Gruenwald, Ithamar

Table of Contents: “…Preface; List of Abbreviations and Transcriptions; Part 1; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Quest for the Mystical Reality: Reflections on the Ontological Provenance of the Hekhalot Hymns and Visions; Chapter 2 Two Essential Qualities of Jewish Apocalyptic; Chapter 3 The Mystical Elements in Apocalyptic; Chapter 4 The Attitude Towards the Merkavah Speculations in the Literature of the Tannaim and Amoraim; Chapter 5 The Hekhalot Literature; Part 2; Introduction; Reʼuyot Yehẹzkel; Hekhalot Zutarti; Hekhalot Rabbati; Maʻaseh Merkavah; Hekhalot Fragments; Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch).…”
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Only the third heaven? : 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 and heavenly ascent by Gooder, Paula

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION; PART I: TEXTS OF HEAVENLY ASCENT; Chapter 2 INTRODUCTION: HEAVENLY ASCENT TEXTS; Chapter 3 JEWISH APOCALYPTIC TEXTS PRE-70 AD; Chapter 4 JEWISH APOCALYPTIC TEXTS POST-70 AD; Chapter 5 THE NEW TESTAMENT; Chapter 6 POST-BIBLICAL EARLY CHRISTIAN APOCALYPSES; Chapter 7 THE NAG HAMMADI CODICES; Chapter 8 THE HEKHALOT LITERATURE; Chapter 9 CONCLUSIONS TO PART ONE; PART II: 2 CORINTHIANS 12.1-10 AND HEAVENLY ASCENT.…”
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Jewish studies between the disciplines = : Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen papers in honor of Peter Schäfer on the occasion of his 60th birthday. by Herrmann, K.

Table of Contents: “…Rabbinic Literature; 5. Hekhalot Literature; 6. manuscripts; 7. Middle Ages.…”
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Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications by Halbertal, Moshe

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.…”
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The climax of prophecy : studies on the book of Revelation by Bauckham, Richard

Table of Contents: “…; Part I HELLENISTIC AND HELLENISTIC-JEWISH MYSTICISM; Chapter 2 HELLENISTIC MYSTICISM; Chapter 3 HELLENISTIC-JEWISH MYSTICISM AS IN PHILO; Part II PALESTINIAN MYSTICISM IN THE FIRST CENTURY CE; Chapter 4 MYSTICAL FEATURES IN THE HEKHALOT LITERATURE; Chapter 5 EVIDENCE OF MERKABAH MYSTICISM IN PRE-CHRISTIAN WRITINGS; Chapter 6 EVIDENCE OF MERKABAH MYSTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN ERA; Chapter 7 THE APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE OF THE LATE FIRST CENTURY.…”
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Magic and ritual in the ancient world

Table of Contents: “…Daniel Breslauer ; Shamanic initiatory death and resurrection in the Hekhalot literature / James R. Davila ; Sacrificial themes in Jewish magic / Michael D. …”
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Practicing gnosis : ritual, magic, theurgy and liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and other ancient literature : essays in honor of Birger A. Pearson

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Marcosian rituals for prophecy and apolytrosis / Niclas Förster -- Ritual praxis in the Hekhalot literature / James Davila.…”
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