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Isaiah Ascends to Heaven to See the Social Trinity
The title of this blog post is meant to catch your attention more than anything, and if you are reading this, then I guess it worked!! The purpose of this post is to simply announce, for those who haven’t seen them, a couple of papers that I have recently posted on my Scribd account. The [...]
Also posted in Early Judaism, Scripture, Temple Tagged Bible, Ezekiel, Merkabah, Old Testament, Rachel Elior, Temple Comments closed
The Book of Daniel
I have not put up anything in the past few weeks from the Sunday School lessons, partially because locally we’ve had Stake Conference, then I was at SBL, and then the we were snowed in last Sunday — so I’m not really sure where everyone’s at in the curriculum. I imagine that most people have [...]
Also posted in Early Judaism, School Journal, Scripture Tagged apocalyptic, Bible, Biblical studies, Daniel, Jim Davila, notes Comments closed
“With Letters of Light”: Festschrift for Rachel Elior
In the first post that I put up with notes from SBL, I mentioned that a Festschrift in honor of Rachel Elior was presented to her at a gathering of the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism group. The volume was edited by Daphna Arbel and my former Marquette professor, Andrei Orlov. You can check it [...]
Also posted in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Tagged Andrei Orlov, book, Daphna Arbel, Festschrift, Mysticism, Rachel Elior Comments closed
SBL Annual Meeting 2010: Biblical Studies Conference in the Buckle of the Bible Belt
I arrived home Wednesday night from the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference was an especially good one, in my experience, at least. I still look back with fondness on my first national SBL meeting in San Diego — the setting alone is hard to beat. However, [...]
Also posted in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Religious Scholars Tagged 2010, Andre Orlov, Atlanta, Bogdan Bucur, Christianity, Daphne Arbel, early, Guy Williams, Hebrews, Isaiah, Jack Levison, Jewish, Jim Davila, Judaism, Knight, Merkabah, Mysticism, Peter Schafer, Rachel Elior, Rebecca Lesses, SBL, Silviu Bunta Comments closed
Ezekiel’s Remarkable Visions
Due to my schedule for the past few weeks, I have been unable to continue my weekly posts on the Sunday School lessons from the Old Testament. As I was looking over the lesson to be studied this week, I was somewhat disappointed that it did not cover some of the early chapters of the [...]
Also posted in Scripture, Sunday School Lessons, Temple Tagged Chariot, Ezekiel, Merkabah, Rachel Elior, Sunday School, Temple, Throne, William Hamblin Comments closed
Major Trends in Hekhalot Literature Research
MAJOR TRENDS IN HEKHALOT LITERATURE RESEARCH are summed up in an article by Shlomo Brody in Text and Texture: “The Aleinu Prayer and the Pardes Story: Major Trends in Hekhalot Literature Research” (Via James Davila at PaleoJudaica.com)
Also posted in Early Judaism, Heavenly Ascents, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Tagged Aleinu Prayer, Early Judaism, Hekhalot, James Davila, Pardes Story, Shlomo Brody Comments closed
Did Jesus Deny the Possibility of Heavenly Ascents? (John 3:13)