Paradise now : essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism
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Paradise now : essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism
（Symposium series / Society of Biblical Literature, no. 11）
Brill, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-418) and indexes
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A substantial introduction to the study of early Jewish and Christian mysticism, this volume examines major aspects of the mystical tradition within early Judaism and Christianity. This tradition was centered on the belief that a person directly, immediately, and before death can experience the divine, either as a rapture experience or one solicited by a particular praxis. The essays define and analyze the nature and practices of mysticism as it emerges within early Judaism and Christianity, recognizing this emergence within a variety of communal environments. Larger questions about the relationship between hermeneutics and experience, as well as the relationship between mysticism and apocalypticism are also discussed, and a substantial bibliography of the field is provided. The book is the result of ten years of work of the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism unit of the Society of Biblical Literature.
The contributors are Cameron C. Afzal, Daphna Arbel, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ra`anan S. Boustan, James R. Davila, April D. DeConick, Celia Deutsch, Rachel Elior, Frances Flannery-Dailey, Charles A. Gieschen, Rebecca Lesses, Andrea Lieber, Christopher R. A. Morray-Jones, Andrei A. Orlov, Christopher Rowland, Seth L. Sanders, Alan F. Segal, and Kevin Sullivan.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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