| Hekhalot Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia Contributor(s): Boustan, Ra'anan S. (Editor), Himmelfarb, Martha (Editor), Schafer, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3161525752 ISBN-13: 9783161525759 Publisher: Mohr Siebeck OUR PRICE: $209.88 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Religion | Judaism - History - Religion | Judaism - Sacred Writings |
| Dewey: 296.1 |
| LCCN: 2013389709 |
| Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism |
| Physical Information: 420 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scholars of early Jewish mysticism have, with increasing confidence, located the initial formation of Hekhalot literature in Byzantine Palestine and Sasanian or early Islamic Babylonia (ca. 500-900 C.E.). Yet questions remain regarding the specific cultural contexts and institutional settings out of which the various strands of Hekhalot literature emerged as well as the multiple trajectories they subsequently traveled. In the present volume, an international team of experts explores, from a variety of disciplinary perspective, the literary formation, cultural meanings, religious functions, and textual transmission of Hekhalot literature. Contributors: Gideon Bohak, Ra'anan Boustan, David M. Grossberg, Klaus Herrmann, Reimund Leicht, Rebecca Lesses, Michael Meerson, Noam Mizrahi, Ophir Munz-Manor, Andrei A. Orlov, Peter Schafer, Alexei Sivertsev, Michael D. Swartz, Moulie Vidas, Annette Yoshiko Reed |