Descenders to the Chariot
The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
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Word Count
85,500 words, Guess
Page Count
342 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedescenderstochar00davi
- ISBN-109004115412
- ISBN-139789004115415
- Library of Congress Control Number2001046476
- OCLC Control Number50387629
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number47756234
- Better World Books9789004115415
- Open LibraryOL9084036M
Classifications
- LCCBM526.D42 2001
- LCCBM526 .D42 2001
Description
"The Hekhalot literature is a bizarre conglomeration of Jewish esoteric and revelatory texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, produced sometime between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and surviving in medieval manuscripts." "These texts claim to describe the self-induced spiritual experiences of the 'descenders to the chariot' and to reveal the techniques that permitted these magico-religious practitioners to view for themselves Ezekiel's Merkavah as well as to gain control of angels and a supernatural mastery of Torah." "Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological evidence from the Middle East, anthropological models, and a wide range of cross-cultural evidence, this book aims to show that the Hekhalot literature preserves the teachings and rituals of real religious functionaries who flourished in late antiquity and who were quite like the functionaries anthropologists call shamans."--BOOK JACKET.
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