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By Ra'anan S. Boustan,Martha Himmelfarb,Peter Schäfer

ISBN-10: 3161525752

ISBN-13: 9783161525759

over the last 30 years, students of early Jewish mysticism have, with expanding self belief, situated the preliminary formation of Hekhalot literature in Byzantine Palestine and Sasanian or early Islamic Babylonia (ca. 500-900 C.E.), instead of on the time of the Mishnah, Tosefta, early Midrashim, or Palestinian Talmud (ca. 100-400 C.E.). This enhance has basically been accomplished via significant earnings in our figuring out of the dynamic and hugely versatile tactics of composition, redaction, and transmission that produced the Hekhalot texts as we all know them at the present time. those earnings were coupled with larger appreciation of the complicated relationships among Hekhalot writings and the variegated Jewish literary tradition of overdue antiquity, either inside and past the limits of the rabbinic circulate. but vital questions stay in regards to the particular cultural contexts and institutional settings out of which a number of the strands of Hekhalot literature emerged in addition to the a number of trajectories of use and appropriation they hence travelled. within the current quantity, a world group of specialists explores-from a number of disciplinary views (e.g. linguistics, ritual and gender reviews, highbrow history)-the literary formation, cultural meanings, spiritual services, and textual transmission of Hekhalot literature.

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