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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, [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Religious Scholars Also tagged 2010, Andre Orlov, Atlanta, Bogdan Bucur, Christianity, Daphne Arbel, early, Guy Williams, Hebrews, Isaiah, Jack Levison, Jewish, Jim Davila, Judaism, Knight, 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 [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons, Temple Also tagged Chariot, Ezekiel, Rachel Elior, Sunday School, Temple, Throne, William Hamblin Comments closed
From Isaiah to Ezekiel to Heavenly Ascent
My Comments on Martha Himmelfarb’s Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses The next major work that I will be looking at here is Princeton professor of religion, Martha Himmelfarb’s book entitled Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). This work is significantly influential in the [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Apocalypse, Ezekiel, First Temple, Heavenly Ascents, Isaiah, Martha Himmelfarb, Second Temple, Temple Comments closed
Understanding Ezekiel’s Remarkable Merkabah Vision
In Ezekiel 1, the prophet experiences an amazing theophany that has inspired and perplexed readers for centuries. Ezekiel was privileged to see the Merkabah, the flying chariot-throne of God, and “upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it” (Ezek 1:26). In the account that [...]
Isaiah Ascends to Heaven to See the Social Trinity