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In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancient scrolls and manuscripts published in the last few decades. Her wide-ranging research, scrupulously documented, enables her to demonstrate an uninterrupted line linking the priestly traditions of the Temple, the mystical liturgical literature found in the Qumran caves and associated directly and indirectly with the Merkavah tradition of around the second and first centuries BCE, and the mystical works of the second to fifth centuries CE known as Heikhalot literature. The key factor linking all these texts, according to Professor Elior's theory, is that many of those who wrote them were members of the priestly classes. Prevented from being able to perform the rituals of sacred service in the Temple as ordained in the biblical tradition, they channelled their religious impetus in other directions to create a new spiritual focus. The mystical tradition they developed centred first on a heavenly Chariot Throne known as the Merkavah, and later on heavenly sanctuaries known as Heikhalot. In this way the priestly class developed an alternative focus for spirituality, based on a supertemporal liturgical and ritual relationship with ministering angels in the supernal sanctuaries. This came to embrace an entire mystical world devoted to sustaining religious liturgical tradition and ritual memory in the absence of the Temple. This lyrical investigation of the origins and workings of this supernal world is sure to become a standard work in the study of early Jewish mysticism.

Hekhalot literature --- Merkava --- Mysticism --- Priests, Jewish --- 296*4 --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Joodse mystiek --- Jews --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Merkabah --- Merkavah --- Throne of God --- Heikhalot literature --- Cabala --- Judaism&delete& --- History --- Priests --- Judaism --- Hekhalot literature. --- Merkava. --- Priests, Jewish. --- History. --- Mysticisme --- Hékhalot --- Merkaba --- Prêtres juifs --- Judaïsme --- Histoire

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Merkava --- Mysticism --- Judaism --- 296*4 --- Joodse mystiek --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Hebräisch. --- Hekhalot-literatuur. --- Hemelvaart. --- Himmelfahrt. --- Merkaba. --- Merkava in rabbinical literature. --- Merkava. --- Mystique --- Wortfeld. --- Judaïsme. --- Kuyt, Annelies. --- Heikhalot rabbati. --- Heikhalot zutrati. --- Heikhalot. --- Maaseh merkavah. --- Maʻaśeh merkavah. --- Merkava in rabbinical literature --- Rabbinical literature --- Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Merkabah --- Merkavah --- Throne of God --- Maʻaśeh merkavah. --- Hekhalot zuṭrati --- Hekhalot zutarti --- Hekhalot rabati --- Sefer Hekhalot rabati --- Sefer Pirḳe Hekhalot --- Pirḳe Hekhalot --- Masekhet Hekhalot --- Maʻaśeh ha-merkavah --- ʻInyan merkavah --- Pirḳe merkavah --- Sefer ha-merkavah --- Masekhet merkavah --- Mysticism - Judaism

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"The Gnostic Imagination is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism. It includes an exhaustive analysis of Gershom Scholem's views on the subject, an analytical survey of other secondary literature, and a focused examination of primary sources. The work explores a wide range of topics including myth, exegesis, ascent traditions, and cosmology. Although the main focus is on western Gnostic traditions and Merkabah mysticism, the book also includes relevant material from Mandaeism and from later stages of Jewish mysticism such as German Pietism and Kabbalah. Not only is this volume the first to survey and evaluate the history of scholarship on this complex subject, but it also creates new pathways for future studies by illuminating the crucial methodological and topical issues in the field. ".

Chretiens de Saint Jean --- Christians of St. John --- Disciples de Saint Jean --- Disciples of St. John --- Johanneschristenen --- Ma'aseh merkavah --- Mandaeans --- Mandaeers --- Mandaeisme --- Mandeeen --- Mandeeers --- Mandeens --- Mandeisme --- Mendaeans --- Merkabah --- Merkava --- Merkavah --- Nasoraeans --- Sabians --- St. John's Christians --- Judaism --- Gnosticism --- Mandaeans. --- Mysticism --- Merkava. --- Mandéens --- Mysticisme --- Merkaba --- Relations --- Gnosticism. --- Judaism. --- Judaïsme --- 273.1 --- -Judaism --- -Mandaeans --- -Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Throne of God --- Christian heresies --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- -Gnosticism --- History --- Religion --- -Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- -Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Dark night of the soul --- Mandéens --- Judaïsme --- Relations&delete& --- Christians of Saint John --- Disciples of Saint John --- Sabaeans (Mandaeans) --- Saint John's Christians --- Subbiyuns --- Religious adherents --- Cults

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In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjuring the angel known as Sar-Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill in learning, and then taught them the formulas for giving others these gifts. This literature, according to Michael Swartz, gives us rare glimpses of how ancient and medieval Jews who stood outside the mainstream of rabbinic leadership viewed Torah and ritual. Through close readings of the texts, he uncovers unfamiliar dimensions of the classical Judaic idea of Torah and the rabbinic civilization that forged them.Swartz sets the stage for his analysis with a discussion of the place of memory and orality in ancient and medieval Judaism and how early educational and physiological theories were marshaled for the cultivation of memory. He then examines the unusual magical rituals for conjuring angels and ascending to heaven as well as the authors' attitudes to authority and tradition, showing them to have subverted essential rabbinic values even as they remained beholden to them. The result is a ground-breaking analysis of the social and conceptual background of rabbinic Judaism and ancient Mediterranean religions. Offering complete translations of the principal Sar-Torah texts, Scholastic Magic will become essential reading for those interested in religions in the ancient and medieval world, ritual studies, and popular religion.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Jewish magic --- Joodse magie --- Ma'aseh merkavah --- Magic [Jewish ] --- Magie [Joodse ] --- Magie juive --- Merkabah --- Merkava --- Merkavah --- Intercessory prayer --- -Magic, Jewish --- -Rabbis --- -Jewish rabbis --- Jewish scholars --- Magic, Jewish --- Magic, Semitic --- Intercession (Prayer) --- Functionaries --- -Joodse mystiek --- Jewish rabbis --- Mysticism --- Rabbis --- 296*4 --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Joodse mystiek --- Clergy --- Judaism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Judaism&delete& --- History --- Heikhalot rabbati. --- Maʻaśeh merkavah. --- Masekhet Hekhalot --- Maʻaśeh ha-merkavah --- ʻInyan merkavah --- Pirḳe merkavah --- Sefer ha-merkavah --- Masekhet merkavah --- Hekhalot rabati --- Sefer Hekhalot rabati --- Sefer Pirḳe Hekhalot --- Pirḳe Hekhalot --- Prayers and devotions --- Rabbis - Prayer-books and devotions. --- Intercessory prayer - Judaism. --- Sar Torah texts --- Jewish magic. --- Judaism. --- History. --- Maaseh merkavah.

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This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shiʿur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.

Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Mysticism --- Merkava. --- Translations into Church Slavic --- History and criticism. --- Judaism. --- Apocalypse of Abraham --- Slavonic book of Enoch --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- -Mysticism --- -229*210 --- 229*224 --- 229*224 Apocalypse van Abraham --- Apocalypse van Abraham --- 229*210 II Henoch (Slavische Henoch) --- II Henoch (Slavische Henoch) --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Old Testament apocryphal books --- Pseudepigraphal books (Old Testament) --- Translations into Slavic --- -History and criticism. --- 2 Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Second Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Book of Enoch, --- Book of the secrets of Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Secrets of Enoch, Book of the --- Slavonic Enoch, Book of the --- Bible. --- 2nd Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Slavisches Henochbuch (Apocryphal book) --- Slawisches Henochbuch (Apocryphal book) --- Slavonic apocalypse of Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Livre des secrets d'Hénoch (Apocryphal book) --- Knigy otkrovlenii︠a︡ Avrami︠e︡ --- Abraham, Apocalypse of --- Merkava --- 229*210 --- Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Merkabah --- Merkavah --- Throne of God --- Translations into Church Slavic&delete& --- History and criticism --- Judaism --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - Translations into Church Slavic - History and criticism. --- Mysticism - Judaism.