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The Three Temples - On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism (Paperback, New edition)
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The Three Temples - On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive
theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical
tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancient scrolls and
manuscripts published in the last few decades. Her wide-ranging
research, scrupulously documented, enables her to demonstrate an
uninterrupted line linking the priestly traditions of the Temple,
the mystical liturgical literature found in the Qumran caves and
associated directly and indirectly with the Merkavah tradition of
around the second and first centuries BCE, and the mystical works
of the second to fifth centuries CE known as Heikhalot literature.
The key factor linking all these texts, according to Professor
Elior's theory, is that many of those who wrote them were members
of the priestly classes. Prevented from being able to perform the
rituals of sacred service in the Temple as ordained in the biblical
tradition, they channelled their religious impetus in other
directions to create a new spiritual focus. The mystical tradition
they developed centred first on a heavenly Chariot Throne known as
the Merkavah, and later on heavenly sanctuaries known as Heikhalot.
In this way the priestly class developed an alternative focus for
spirituality, based on a supertemporal liturgical and ritual
relationship with ministering angels in the supernal sanctuaries.
This came to embrace an entire mystical world devoted to sustaining
religious liturgical tradition and ritual memory in the absence of
the Temple. This lyrical investigation of the origins and workings
of this supernal world is sure to become a standard work in the
study of early Jewish mysticism.
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