Tag Archives: Rabbinic Judaism

Answers to Questions Regarding Heavenly Ascent in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature

By David Larsen | Published: May 11, 2010

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, Margaret Barker, Martha Himmelfarb, mysteries, New Testament, Qumran, Second Temple Judaism | 2 Comments

How Many Judaisms?

By David Larsen | Published: July 7, 2008

Often when we think of Judaism, with think of this ancient monolithic system that has never changed much. Many assume that the Judaism of today is the same as the Judaism of ancient Rabbis, which is the same Judaism as is presented in the New Testament and, likewise, the Old. Nothing could be further from [...]