Research Catalog

Title

Hekhalot literature in context : between Byzantium and Babylonia / edited by Ra'anan Boustan, Martha Himmelfarb, and Peter Schäfer.

Publication

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-
• Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952-
• Schäfer, Peter, 1943-

Description

xxiv, 439 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Hekhalot literature, the earliest expression of Jewish mysticism, emerged in Palestine and Babylonia in late antiquity (ca. 500-900 C.E.). In the present volume, an international team of experts explores the literary formation, cultural meanings, religious functions, and textual transmission of this literature."--Back of dust jacket.

Series Statement

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 0721-8753 ; 153 Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 153

Alternative Title

Between Byzantium and Babylonia

Subject

• Hekhalot literature > History and criticism
• Mysticism > Judaism
• Hekhalot-literatuur
• Culturele aspecten
• Hekhalot literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Mysticism > Judaism > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Kongress – Princeton <NJ, 2010>
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-410) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Hekhalot literature at the intersections of Jewish regional cultures / Ra'anan Boustan -- The formation of Hekhalot literature : linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts -- The language of Hekhalot literature : preliminary observations / Noam Mizrahi -- Metatron in Babylonia / Peter Schäfer -- Hekhalot and Piyyut : from Byzantium to Babylonia and back / Michael D. Swartz -- The emperor's many bodies : the demise of emperor Lupinus revisited / Alexei Sivertsev -- Jewish mysticism in Byzantium : the transformation of Merkavah mysticism in 3 Enoch / Klaus Herrmann -- Between 3 Enoch and Bavli Hagigah : Heresiology and Orthopraxy in the Ascent of Elisha ben Abuyah / David M. Grossberg -- Hekhalot literature, the babylonian academies, and the tanna'im / Moulie Vidas -- The transmission and reception of Hekhalot literature : toward the middle ages -- The Hekhalot Genizah / Peter Schäfer -- Observations on the transmission of Hekhalot literature in the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak -- A prolegomenon to the study of Hekhalot traditions in European Piyyut / Ophir Münz-Manor -- Early Jewish mysticism in comparative perspective : themes and patterns -- Major trends in rabbinic cosmology / Reimund Leicht -- Women and gender in the Hekhalot literature / Rebecca Lesses -- "What is below?" : mysteries of Leviathan in the early jewish accounts and Mishnah Hagigah 2:1 / Andrei A. Orlov -- Rites of passage in magic and mysticism / Michael Meerson -- Rethinking (Jewish-)Christian evidence for Jewish mysticism / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of primary sources -- Index of proper names -- Index of modern scholars.

ISBN

• 9783161525759 (hd.bd.)
• 3161525752 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 854556822
• SCSB-12748736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library