Tag Archives: Rachel Elior

Isaiah Ascends to Heaven to See the Social Trinity

By David Larsen | Published: January 12, 2011
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 [...]
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“With Letters of Light”: Festschrift for Rachel Elior

By David Larsen | Published: December 4, 2010
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 [...]
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SBL Annual Meeting 2010: Biblical Studies Conference in the Buckle of the Bible Belt

By David Larsen | Published: November 26, 2010
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, [...]
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Ezekiel’s Remarkable Visions

By David Larsen | Published: November 14, 2010
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 [...]
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The Essene Debate Continues…

By David Larsen | Published: May 5, 2009
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 [...]
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Dead Sea Scrolls Not Written by Essenes?

By David Larsen | Published: March 17, 2009
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 [...]
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Religious Scholars on the Web

By David Larsen | Published: February 16, 2009
First of all, I would like to apologize for the paucity of posts recently.  I have been very busy with school, as it is the last semester of my MA program and there is a lot of extra work required for graduation. I wanted to share with you some links to some great religious scholars [...]
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