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100	1		_aGruenwald, Ithamar.
245	1	0	_aApocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism / _cby Ithamar Gruenwald.
250			_aSecond, revised ed.
264		1	_aLeiden : _bBrill, _c[2014]
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aAncient Judaism and early Christianity
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Quest for the Mystical Reality: Reflections on the Ontological Provenance of the Hekhalot Hymns and Visions -- 2 Two Essential Qualities of Jewish Apocalyptic -- 3 The Mystical Elements in Apocalyptic -- 4 The Attitude Towards the Merkavah Speculations in the Literature of the Tannaim and Amoraim -- 5 The Hekhalot Literature -- Introduction -- Reʾuyot Yeḥezkel -- Hekhalot Zutarti -- Hekhalot Rabbati -- Maʿaseh Merkavah -- Hekhalot Fragments -- Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch) -- Merkavah Rabbah -- Masekhet Hekhalot -- Shiʿur Qomah -- Physiognomy, Chiromancy and Metoposcopy -- Sefer Ha-Razim -- Concluding Chapter When Magical Techniques and Mystical Practices Become Neighbors: Methodological Considerations -- Appendices by Saul Lieberman -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aThis is a new and revised edition of the book first published 1980. It contains new introductory and concluding chapters as well as a Bibliography and updated Index. Furthermore, substantial corrections, updates, and changes have been made in the original text. The changes concern matters of language and style, they nuance the line of argumentation, and they update the discussion of major issues. The new chapters fill several scholarly gaps that have opened since the initial publication of this book in 1980. The new Introductory Chapter explores new venues and issues in the study and assessment of the Hekhalot literature and relevant passages in apocalyptic literature, and this in light of epistemological and ontological considerations. The Concluding Chapter discusses the ritual praxis of the experience of the Hekhalot mystics and its affitnity to magic, and this in terms of new approaches to ritual theory.
650		0	_aMysticism _xJudaism.
650		0	_aApocalyptic literature.
650		0	_aThrone of God.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tApocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism: Second, Revised Edition _dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014, _z9789004136021
830		0	_aAncient Judaism and Early Christianity _v90.
830		0	_aAncient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004279209
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