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Merkavah mysticism occupies a complex position between biblical visions of divine sovereignty, apocalyptic journeys into heaven, rabbinic restrictions on speculative teaching, and the elaborate heavenly palaces described in late antique Jewish literature. This article examines the historical and theological development of Merkavah traditions…
This article examines two traditions that are often combined in modern discussions of Jewish mysticism: the rabbinic image of worlds created and destroyed before the present world, and the thirteenth-century Kabbalistic mythology of Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen in the Treatise on the Left…
This article examines Metatron and the problem of divine agency through enthronement, mediation, and monotheism in 3 Enoch and early Jewish mysticism.