Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature.

Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature. By VITA DAPHNA ARBEL. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2003. Pp. xii + 250. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Beholders of Divine Secrets is a brave and adventurous book. Most previous studies of Hekhalot literature have attempted to situate this enigmatic collection of Jewish liturgical, ritual, and ascent texts from Late Antiquity in its immediate historical, cultural, or literary contexts. The Hebrew Bible and New Testament; early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic works (both canonical and non-canonical); the vast corpus of rabbinic exegetical, legal, and narrative writings; early...

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