Thursday, 16 February 2012

Descenders to the Chariot: The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature

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James R. Davila
BRILL, 2001 - 342 pages
Drawing on anthropological models and epigraphic and archaeologicale evidence, this book aims to show that the Hekhalot literature preserves the teachings and rituals of real religious functionaries who flourished in late antiquity, functionaries quite like those called shamans by antrhopologists.
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2 comments:

  1. Alas! I fear that this is a dead link. I wonder, could it possibly be re-uploaded?

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