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Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology : the Malleable Self and the Presence of God.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2016.
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| Colección: | Brill Reference Library of Judaism Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology: The Malleable Self and the Presence of God; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: The Self and the Mystical Experience; 1 Prefatory Remarks; 2 The Self and Self-transformation; 2.1 The Study of the Self; 2.2 Components of Self-transformation; 2.3 The Mystical Experience; 2.4 The Mystical Text; 3 The Status Quaestionis; 3.1 Scholarly Interest in Self-transformation; 3.2 Jewish Mysticism and Self-transformation; 3.3 Moving Forward; 4 Outline of Study; 4.1 A Note on the Structure; 4.2 Chapter 2.
- 4.3 Chapter 34.4 Chapter 4; 4.5 Chapter 5; 4.6 Chapter 6; 4.7 Chapter 7; 5 Concluding Remarks; 2 Aseneth, the Anti-Eve: The Re-created Self in an Egyptian Jewish Tale; 1 Prefatory Remarks; 1.1 The Present Chapter; 1.2 Overview of Joseph and Aseneth; 2 Conversion and the New Creation; 2.1 The Anthropos and the Pure Aseneth; 2.2 The Promise of Transformation; 2.3 Aseneth's Holistic Transformation; 3 A Meal of Astronomical Significance; 3.1 'Bring Me Also a Honeycomb'; 3.2 The Honeycomb as the Spirit of Life; 3.3 Aseneth's Transformation and the New Creation; 3.4 Aseneth Radiant like the Angels.
- 3.5 Whom Does Aseneth Represent?4 Concluding Remarks; 3 Philo's Bridge to Perfection: De opificio mundi and the End of the Self; 1 Prefatory Remarks; 1.1 The Present Chapter; 1.2 Philo Judaeus and De opificio mundi; 1.3 Overview of De opificio mundi 144; 2 The Created Ontological State; 2.1 The Divinity of the Mind; 2.2 The Self as a Blending of Mortal and Divine; 3 The Liminal Ontological State; 3.1 Betwixt and between; 3.2 Engagement with the Body; 4 The End of the Self; 4.1 Telos and Assimilation to God; 4.2 Assimilation in Plato, Galen and Philo; 5 Concluding Remarks.
- 4 God's Anthropomorphous House: The Self-constructed Temple at Qumran1 Prefatory Remarks; 1.1 The Present Chapter; 1.2 Overview of Serekh ha-Yahad; 1.3 1QS and the Sectarian Movement; 2 The Living Temple in Serekh ha-Yahad; 2.1 The Community as the Temple; 2.2 The Communal Experience of Unio Angelica; 2.3 The Community as Dwelling Space; 2.4 The Human Temple in 4QFlorilegium; 3 Self-construction in the Sabbath Shirot; 3.1 Overview of the Sabbath Shirot; 3.2 Constructing the Living Temple; 3.3 The Fusion of the Sectarian Self; 4 Concluding Remarks.