Originally published: Leiden: Brill, 2003. The Brill reference library of Judaism; v. 10

Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel

Literature & Fiction

Gruenwald, Ithamar

History & Criticism

Society of Biblical Literature

From the Wailing Wall to the Mourning God: Thoughts for the Ninth of Av

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Shikey Press

What Is in the Day? New Light on the Significance of Rosh Ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur

Institute for Jewish Research & Publications, The

Shaul Shaked, Geboren 1933; Studium an den Universitaten Jerusalem und London; 1965 Ph.D., London; seit 1965 Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion an der Hebrew University, Jerusalem; o. Mitglied der Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Messiah and Christos: Studies in the Jewish Origins of Christianity. Presented to David Flusser on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (Texte Und Studien Zum Antiken Judentum)

History

World

Mohr Siebeck

This collection of papers and articles brings together the results of over 10 years of research in the field of Jewish esoteric literature. The major subjects dealt with in the book are: the nature of Jewish esoteric literature; the development of Jewish Apocalypticism and Merkavah Mysticism from Scriptural Prophetism; the major qualities of Apocalypticism; the relationship between Judaism and Gnosticism; Judaism and Manichaeism; and the problem of a Jewish type of Gnosticism.

From Apocalypticism to Gnosticism: Studies in Apocalypticism, Merkavah Mysticism and Gnosticism (Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des Antiken Judentums)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums)

Brill Academic Pub

The book explores the links between mythic and rituals, arguing that the connectedness with ritual endows a story with a mythic essence. Detailed discussions of various rituals exemplify the major theoretical discourse. The book is of interest to scholars in the areas of religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and Halakhah (law and ritual).

Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel (Brill Reference Library of Judaism)

Middle East

This is a new and revised edition of the book first published 1980. It contains new introductory and concluding chapters as well as a Bibliography and updated Index. Furthermore, substantial corrections, updates, and changes have been made in the original text. The changes concern matters of language and style, they nuance the line of argumentation, and they update the discussion of major issues. The new chapters fill several scholarly gaps that have opened since the initial publication of this book in 1980. The new Introductory Chapter explores new venues and issues in the study and assessment of the Hekhalot literature and relevant passages in apocalyptic literature, and this in light of epistemological and ontological considerations. The Concluding Chapter discusses the ritual praxis of the experience of the Hekhalot mystics and its affitnity to magic, and this in terms of new approaches to ritual theory.

Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 90)

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