Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible

Reed Carlson

• Paperback | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 9
• Spirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unf... Lees meer

The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity

• Paperback | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 5
• Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Rom... Lees meer

Joseph and Aseneth After Antiquity

Jonathon Stuart Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 12
• Joseph and Aseneth expands a few verses from the book of Genesis into a novella-length work. It is increasingly used as a source for Judaism and Chris... Lees meer

Metamorphoses

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 1
• How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical ... Lees meer

With Letters of Light

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 2
• This collection of essays is a tribute to Rachel Elior's decades of teaching, scholarship and mentoring. If a Festschrift reflects the individuality o... Lees meer

Manipulating Theophany

Vladimir Ivanovici

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 6
• Using light as fil rouge reuniting theology and ritual with the architecture, decoration, and iconography of cultic spaces, the present study argues t... Lees meer

The Spirit Says

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 8
• The Spirit Says offers a stunning collection of articles by an influential assemblage of scholars, all of whom lend considerable insight to the relati... Lees meer

Reading with an I to the Heavens

Angela Kim Harkins

• Paperback | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 3
• This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (= Thanksgiving Hymns) in light of ancient visionary traditions, new developm... Lees meer

The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 5
• Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Rom... Lees meer

Reading with an I to the Heavens

Angela Kim Harkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 3
• This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (= Thanksgiving Hymns) in light of ancient visionary traditions, new developm... Lees meer

Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas

• Paperback | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 10
• The Shepherd of Hermas is one of the oldest and most well-attested Christian works. Its popularity arguably exceeded that of the canonical Gospels. Ma... Lees meer

Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible

Reed Carlson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 9
• Spirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unf... Lees meer

Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 7
• The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject. This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradit... Lees meer

Second Temple Pseudepigraphy

Vicente Dobroruka

• Hardcover | Engels | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle | nr. 4
• At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed. This book ... Lees meer