From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
The
present volume contains essays dealing with the Second Temple Jewish
traditions and documents preserved solely in their Slavonic
translations. It examines these Slavonic pseudepigraphical materials in
the context of their mediating role in the development of early Jewish
mystical traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to Merkabah
mysticism attested in rabbinic and Hekhalot materials. The book
represents the first attempt to study Slavonic pseudepigrapha
collectively as a unique group of texts that share common theophanic and
mediatorial imagery crucial for the development of early Jewish
mysticism. The study demonstrates that mediatorial traditions of the
exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating
the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.
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