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ISBN: 9789004496996 9789004115415 Year: 2001 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL
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The Hekhalot literature is a bizarre conglomeration of Jewish esoteric and revelatory texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, produced sometime between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and surviving in medieval manuscripts. These texts claims to describe the self-induced spiritual experiences of the "descenders to the chariot" and to reveal the techniques that permitted these magico-religious practitioners to view for themselves Ezekiel's Merkavah as well as to gain control of angels and a supernatural mastery of Torah. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological evidence from the Middle East, anthropological models, and a wide range of cross-cultural evidence, this book aims to show that the Hekhalot literature preserves the teachings and rituals of real religious functionaries who flourished in late antiquity and who were quite like the functionaries anthopologists call shamans.
Cabala --- Hekhalot literature --- Merkava --- Shamanism --- History --- History and criticism
ISBN: 9004115412 9004496998 Year: 2001 Volume: 70 Publisher: Leiden Boston Köln Brill
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Ma'aseh merkavah --- Merkabah --- Merkava --- Merkavah --- 296*41 --- Cabala --- -Hekhalot literature --- -Merkava --- Shamanism --- Religions --- Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Mysticism --- Throne of God --- Heikhalot literature --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- History --- History and criticism --- Judaism --- 296*41 Kabbala --- Hekhalot literature --- Comparative studies
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