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Answers to Questions Regarding Heavenly Ascent in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature
This post comprises some very interesting questions posed to me by a new reader of this blog, Steve Bastasch, regarding the development of the “heavenly ascent” theme in early Christian thought and writings and their Jewish background. My answer to these questions follows. ————————————————————————— Steve: I’m new to your Heavenly Ascents blog – it looks [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Heavenly Ascents Also tagged Alan Segal, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Early Christianity, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Early Judaism, Enoch, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Ascents, Hebrew Bible, James Davila, Jesus, Jim Davila, kavod, Martha Himmelfarb, mysteries, New Testament, Rabbinic Judaism, Second Temple Judaism Comments closed
Notes on Early Jewish Belief in a Messiah
The following is from some notes that I took in Professor Jim Davila’s class on the Dead Sea Scrolls this week. I sit in on this undergraduate class of his just to get more exposure to his great knowledge and expertise on this topic. The way the class is set up, at least at this [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Religious Scholars, School Journal Also tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, High Priest, James Davila, Jesus Christ, Jim Davila, King David, Melchizedek, Messiah, Messianism Comments closed
Notes on Emanuel Tov’s Dead Sea Scrolls Lecture at St Mary’s College
The following are my notes from a lecture given by Professor Emanuel Tov as a part of the Biblical Studies Seminar at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews. Emanuel Tov is a professor of Hebrew Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was one of the editors of the Hebrew University Bible Project, [...]
Posted in Early Judaism, LDS Interest, Religious Scholars Also tagged Bible, BYU, Dead Sea Scrolls, Emanuel Tov, Kristin de Troyer, lecture, Oxford, professor, St Marys College, University of St Andrews Comments closed
Melchizedek: King, Priest, and God and the Forbidden Degrees
The title of this post is actually somewhat deceptive as it implies that the post is going to be about Melchizedek, who can be considered a king, a priest, and also a god, and about the “Forbidden Degrees” (sounds tantalizing, eh?), which the title seems to suggest have some connection to Melchizedek. Well, as far [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, LDS Interest, Priesthood, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Andrei Orlov, Deification, First Temple, Hebrew Bible, High Priest, James Davila, Marquette, Melchizedek, Melchizedek Priesthood, Priesthood, Psalms, Temple Comments closed
Christmas Reading
I must start this post by saying that although I would have liked to, I don’t have any wonderful Christmas message to share. I have been quite busy lately — but I still feel that Christmas spirit. It has been snowing here in St Andrews, and the snow has stayed (which I hear is rather [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Doctrinal Issues, Early Judaism, Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, Religious Scholars, Temple Also tagged angelomorphism, Christmas, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Dead Sea Scrolls, Deification, divine humanity, Temple Comments closed
The Essene Debate Continues…
I just got this from Dr. James Davila’s site, www.PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com. The interesting debate over whether the Qumran community was composed of Essenes or not continues: GEZA VERMES responds to Rachel Elior’s response to his article: In connection with Rachel Elior’s rejoinder to my essay, The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, may I contradict her [...]
Posted in Religious Scholars Also tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, Essenses, Geza Vermes, James Davila, Rachel Elior Comments closed
Dead Sea Scrolls Not Written by Essenes?
Hebrew University scholar Rachel Elior (author of The Three Temples), has recently made news for declaring that the Dead Sea Scrolls were not written by Essenes. In fact, according to Elior, there never were any Essenes at all. Josephus (and a number of ancient writers) made them up in order to create a mystique of [...]
Posted in Priesthood, Religious Scholars, Temple Also tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, Enochic Judaism, Essenes, James Davila, Rachel Elior, Zadokite Judaism, Zadokites Comments closed
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