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This collection of essays is a tribute to Rachel Elior's decades of teaching, scholarship and mentoring. If a Festschrift reflects the individuality of the honoree, then this volume offers insights into the scope of Rachel Elior's interests and scholarly achievements in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish apocalypticism, magic, and mysticism from the Second Temple period to the later rabbinic and Hekhalot developments. The majority of articles included in the volume deal with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical texts constituting the core of experiential dimension of these religious traditions.
List of contents
1;Contents;6
2;Rachel Elior An Appreciation from her Colleagues and Students;10
3;The Consideration of Religious Experience in the Work of Rachel Elior;15
4;Peter and the Patriarch: A Confluence of Traditions?;22
5;In Heaven or on Earth: A Misplaced Temple Question about Ezekiel s Visions;37
6;Scriptural Exegesis in the Treatise of the Vessels, A Legendary Account of the Hiding of the Temple Treasures;54
7;Cultivating Visions through Exegetical Meditations;71
8; Serpentine Eve in Syriac Christian Literature of Late Antiquity;101
9;From Pre-Emptive Exegesis to Pre-Emptive Speculation ? Ma aseh Bereshit in Genesis Rabbah and Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer;124
10;Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem in Philo and Paul: A Tale of Two Cities;142
11;The Book of Watchers and the Cycle of New Year Festivals;168
12;A Different Spirituality or Other Agents?: On the Study of Magic in Rabbinic Literature;178
13; They Revealed Secrets to Their Wives : The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch;205
14;The Impurity of Oil and Spit amongthe Qumran Sectarians;232
15; The Likeness of Heaven : The Kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham;241
16;Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer?;263
17; A Chariot of Light Borne by Four Bright Eagles : Eve s Vision of the Chariot in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve;276
18; Messianic Movements in the Period of the Crusades ;294
19;Jesus Revealed: The Dynamics of Early Christian Mysticism;308
20;Aseneth: Ascetical Practice, Vision and Transformation;334
21; You Are Gods : Multiple Divine Beings in Late Antique Jewish Theology;358
22;Transcribing Experience;374
23;Bibliography;392
24;Index;458
About the author
Daphna V. Arbel, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Andrei A. Orlov, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
