The Mystery Of God Early Jewish Mysticism And The New Testament

Author : C. C. Rowland,Christopher R. A. Morray-Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 717 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004175327

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The Mystery of God by C. C. Rowland,Christopher R. A. Morray-Jones Pdf

This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate aspects of New Testament theology. The first part begins with a consideration of the mystical character of apocalypticism and then uses the Book of Revelation and the development of views about the heavenly mediator figure of Enoch to explore the importance of apocalypticism in the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters and finally the key theological themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to New Testament interpretation.

Author : Christopher Rowland,C.R.A. Morray-Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047428763

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The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament by Christopher Rowland,C.R.A. Morray-Jones Pdf

This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate the New Testament. The first part explores the importance of apocalypticism across the whole of the New Testament, and the second part the relevance of Jewish mystical to the New Testament.

Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400864607

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Keter by Arthur Green Pdf

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical views held by various circles of Jews over the course of a millennium or more. The first portion of the work deals with late antiquity, emphasizing the close relationship between texts of what is often depicted as "normative" Judaism and their mystical/magical analogues. The mythic imagination of ancient Judaism, he suggests, is shared across this spectrum. The latter portion of the work turns to the medieval Jews who inherited this ancient tradition and its evolution into Kabbalah, where keter plays a key role as the first of the ten divine emanations or sefirot. The nature of these sefirot as symbols and the emergence of a structured and hierarchical symbolism out of the mythic imagery of the past are key themes in these later chapters. As a whole, Keter takes the reader on an exciting tour of the interior landscapes of the Jewish imagination, offering some remarkable insights into the nature of mystical and symbolic thinking in the Jewish tradition. Originally published in 1997. 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.

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok,Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 0852442599

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Jewish & Christian Mysticism by Dan Cohn-Sherbok,Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok Pdf

Author : Benjamin E. Reynolds,Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506423425

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The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought by Benjamin E. Reynolds,Loren T. Stuckenbruck Pdf

The contemporary study of Jewish apocalypticism today recognizes the wealth and diversity of ancient traditions concerned with the “unveiling” of heavenly matters‒‒understood to involve revealed wisdom, the revealed resolution of time, and revealed cosmology‒‒in marked contrast to an earlier focus on eschatology as such. The shift in focus has had a more direct impact on the study of ancient “pseudepigraphic” literature, however, than in New Testament studies, where the narrower focus on eschatological expectation remains dominant. In this Companion, an international team of scholars draws out the implications of the newest scholarship for the variety of New Testament writings. Each entry presses the boundaries of current discussion regarding the nature of apocalypticism in application to a particular New Testament author. The cumulative effect is to reveal, as never before, early Christianity, its Christology, cosmology, and eschatology, as expressions of tendencies in Second Temple Judaism.

Author : Tyson L. Putthoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004336414

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Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology by Tyson L. Putthoff Pdf

In Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology, Tyson L. Putthoff combines contemporary theory and sound exegesis to understand early Jewish beliefs about how the human self reacts ontologically in God’s presence.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691142159

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The Origins of Jewish Mysticism by Peter Schäfer Pdf

'The Origins of Jewish Mysticism' offers an in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity. The author reveals what these writings seek to tell us about the age-old human desire to get close to and communicate with God.

Author : John J. Collins,Pieter G. R. Villiers,Adela Yarbro Collins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110596922

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Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by John J. Collins,Pieter G. R. Villiers,Adela Yarbro Collins Pdf

The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject. This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek philosophical tradition (Philo) and also examines the Christian transformation of Jewish mysticism in Paul and Revelation. It provides for a nuanced treatment that differentiates different strands of thought that may be considered mystical. The Hebrew tradition is mythical in nature and concerned with various ways of being in the presence of God. The Greek tradition allows for a greater degree of unification and participation in the divine. The New Testament texts are generally closer to the Greek tradition, although Greek philosophy would have a huge effect on later Christian mysticism. The book is intended for scholars and advanced students of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

Author : Grant Macaskill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191507250

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Union with Christ in the New Testament by Grant Macaskill Pdf

This book is a study of the union between God and those he has redeemed, as it is represented in the New Testament. In conversation with historical and systematic theology, Grant Macaskill argues that the union between God and his people is consistently represented by the New Testament authors as covenantal, with the participation of believers in the life of God specifically mediated by Jesus, the covenant Messiah: hence, it involves union with Christ. Christ's mediation of divine presence is grounded in the ontology of the Incarnation, the real divinity and real humanity of his person, and by the full divine personhood of the Holy Spirit, who unites believers to him in faith. His personal narrative of death and resurrection is understood in relation to the covenant by which God's dealings with humanity are ordered. In their union with him, believers are transformed both morally and noetically, so that the union has an epistemic dimension, strongly affirmed by the theological tradition but sometimes confused by scholars with Platonism. This account is developed in close engagement with the New Testament texts, read against Jewish backgrounds, and allowed to inform one another as context. As a 'participatory' understanding of New Testament soteriology, it is advanced in distinction to other participatory approaches that are here considered to be deficient, particularly the so-called 'apocalyptic' approach that is popular in Pauline scholarship, and those attempts to read New Testament soteriology in terms of theosis, elements of which are nevertheless affirmed.

Author : Benjamin Wold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009305037

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Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament by Benjamin Wold Pdf

In this book, Benjamin Wold builds on recent developments in the study of early Jewish wisdom literature and brings it to bear on the New Testament. This scholarship has been transformed by the discovery at Qumran of more than 900 manuscripts, including Hebrew wisdom compositions, many of which were published in critical editions beginning in the mid-1990s. Wold systematically explores the salient themes in the Jewish wisdom worldview found in these scrolls. He also presents detailed commentaries on translations and articulates the key debates regarding Qumran wisdom literature, highlighting the significance of wisdom within the context of Jewish textual culture. Wold's treatment of themes within the early Jewish and Christian textual cultures demonstrates that wisdom transcended literary form and genre. He shows how and why the publication of these ancient texts has engendered profound shifts in the study of early Jewish wisdom, and their relevance to current controversies regarding the interpretation of specific New Testament texts.

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161554477

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Yahoel and Metatron by Andrei A. Orlov Pdf

"In this work, Andrei A. Orlov examines the apocalyptic profile of the angel Yahoel as the mediator of the divine Name, demonstrating its formative influence not only on rabbinic and Hekhalot beliefs concerning the supreme angel Metatron, but also on the unique aural ideology of early Jewish mystical accounts."--Back of dust jacket.

Author : Jody A. Barnard
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN : 3161518810

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The Mysticism of Hebrews by Jody A. Barnard Pdf

Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - Bangor University (North Wales), 2011.

Author : Cilliers Breytenbach,Jörg Frey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004230675

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Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion - Erwägungen zur frühchristlichen Religionsgeschichte by Cilliers Breytenbach,Jörg Frey Pdf

Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion documents the results of two recent workshops on Martin Hengel's and Maria Schwemer's first volume of first volume of Geschichte des frühen Christentums (Jesus und das Judentum [title of vol. 1], Tübingen 2007) and Larry Hurtado's Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Grand Rapids 2003). The contributors, including Hengel himself, focus on problems and possibilities of studying and presenting Christian religion in Roman Antiquity. They discuss distinctive features of these two remarkable publications and some material aspects that illustrate the relationship between the historical study of early Christian religion, religious studies in general and New Testament studies in particular. Mit den Erwägungen zur frühchristlichen Religionsgeschichte liegen die Ergebnisse zweier Fachtagungen vor, die sich mit dem ersten Band der Geschichte des frühen Christentums von Martin Hengel und Maria Schwemer (Jesus und das Judentum, Tübingen 2007) und Larry Hurtados Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Grand Rapids 2003) beschäftigt haben. Die Beiträge, u.a. von Hengel selbst, diskutieren Probleme und Möglichkeiten der Erforschung und Darstellung christlicher Religion in der römischen Antike. Sie setzen sich mit den Zugangsweisen dieser beiden Bücher auseinander und zeigen an verschiedenen Sachfragen die Bezüge, die sich bei der historischen Erforschung der frühchristlichen Religion zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft, Religionswissenschaft und Neutestamentlicher Wissenschaft ergeben.

Author : Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567700711

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A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 4 by Lester L. Grabbe Pdf

This is the fourth and fi nal volume of Lester L. Grabbe's four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jews during the period in which they were ruled by the Roman Empire. Based directly on primary sources such as archaeology, inscriptions, Jewish literary sources and Greek, Roman and Christian sources, this study includes analysis of the Jewish diaspora, mystical and Gnosticism trends, and the developments in the Temple, the law, and contemporary attitudes towards Judaism. Spanning from the reign of Herod Archelaus to the war with Rome and Roman control up to 150 CE, this volume concludes with Grabbe's holistic perspective on the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period.

Author : Brittany E. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780190080822

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The Embodied God by Brittany E. Wilson Pdf

"This book focuses on God's body in the New Testament. While there are various views in the New Testament regarding God's body, the present work argues that Luke-Acts stands out as an important example of a New Testament text that portrays God as visible and corporeal. According to Luke, God is a visible, concrete being who can take on a variety of different forms, as well as a being who is intimately intertwined with human fleshliness in the form of Jesus. In this way, the God of Israel does not adhere to the incorporeal deity of Platonic philosophy, especially as read through post-Enlightenment eyes. Luke's portrayal of God instead finds more affinity with Greco-Roman traditions that conceive of the divine in corporeal terms, and above all, with the God found in the pages of Jewish Scripture. Moreover, Luke's depiction of Jesus as an embodied being has both similarities and dissimilarities with Luke's depiction of Israel's God and points ahead to future controversies concerning Jesus's divinity and humanity in the early church. Indeed, in Luke-Acts and beyond, questions concerning God's body are intimately intertwined with Christology and shed light on how to understand Jesus's own visible embodiment in relation to God"--