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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
Jewish Mysticism in Late Antiquity: Introduction
“Beginning” in History: From Determinism to Chaos
Mysticism and Jewish Mysticism
The Talmudic Establishment and the Hechalot Fringe
Yordey ha-Merkavah
1 Jewish Gnosticism?
2 Three Types of Ancient Jewish Mysticism: Introduction
Typology
The Descenders to the Chariot
The Mysticism of Letters, Numbers, and Names
The Revelation of the Prince of the Torah
Bibliography
Endnote
3 The Revelation of the Secret of the World: The Beginning of Jewish Mysticism in Late Antiquity
Endnote
4 The Memory of the Future and the Utopia of the Past
Endnote
5 The Language of Creation and Its Grammar
6 Three Phases of the History of the Sefer Yezira
Endnote
7 The Concept of History in Hechalot and Merkavah Literature
Background
The Problem of Historicity
The Inner Historical Logic
The Researcher’s Goal
A Metahistorical Viewpoint
Endnote
8 The Concept of Knowledge in the Shiur Komah
Endnote
9 Chochmat Ha-Egoz: Its Origin and Development
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Endnote
10 The Seventy Names of Metatron
Endnote
11 Rashi and the Merkavah
12 The Ancient Hechalot Mystical Texts in the Middle Ages: Tradition, Source, Inspiration
13 The Dangers of the Mystical Ascension in Ancient Jewish Mystical Texts
Endnote
14 Yaldabaoth and the Language of the Gnostics
Index
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