The interdisciplinary seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism is designed as the internet version of an ongoing research seminar of graduate students at the department of theology of Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). The seminar is directed by Alexander Golitzin, a professor of eastern Christian theology (Marquette University) and Andrei Orlov, an assistant professor of Christian Origins (Marquette University). The seminar started in March 2002 as an attempt to investigate Jewish mystical traditions in the eastern Christian theological and liturgical texts. It was thought that the seminar would help initiate and inspire the discussion about the Jewish influences on eastern Christian mysticism among a broader audience.

The internet version of the seminar was constituted on April 17, 2002. It is a regular text seminar consisting of scholars and graduate students of ancient languages, systematic theology, philosophy, patristics, biblical exegesis, and Judaism.

Currently the seminar is not confined solely to the students of Marquette University but also includes participants from various scholarly communities.

Themes are announced and resources pertaining to them are posted on this webpage. The resources normally include previously published and unpublished scholarly articles, electronic publications, lectures, reviews, and sometimes the critical responses to these materials. All copyrighted materials on this page are for classroom use only. Reproduction other than "fair use" quotations is prohibited. The articles, reviews, lectures, and critical responses must be send to the project moderators in order to be posted on the webpage.

We are thankful to Professors April D. DeConick and James R. Davila for the opportunity to refer to the materials from their websites dedicated to Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism and the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. This page also contain the materials from the webpages of Robert A. Kraft, Meir Bar-Ilan, the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament Mysticism Project Seminar, the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, and the Journal des Études de la Cabale.

This project seeks to provide a forum for electronically mediated scholarly discussion about Jewish mystical traditions in the eastern Christian texts.

Some documents on this webpage are available for download only as *. pdf files. These files require free Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to be viewed.

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The current themes include the following subjects:

• THEME 1: Jewish and Christian Mysticism: Definitions
• Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
• Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. A Collage of Working Definitions (April D. DeConick, Daphna Arbel, Cameron Afzal, James R. Davila, Celia Deutsch, Charles A. Gieschen, Alexander Golitzin, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Andrea Lieber, Dan Merkur, Philip B. Munoa III, Christopher Rowland, Alan F. Segal, Elliot Wolfson). pdf
• What is Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism? (April D. DeConick) pdf
• Spirituality: Eastern Christian (Alexander Golitzin).
• Liturgy and Mysticism: The Experience of God in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Part I (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
• Liturgy and Mysticism: The Experience of God in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Part II (Alexander Golitzin). pdf

• THEME 2: Aphrahat
• The Place of the Presence of God: Aphrahat of Persia's Portrait of the Christian Holy Man (Alexander Golitzin).
• Mystical Themes in Aphrahat (Alexander Golitzin).

• THEME 3: The Macarian Homilies
• Paradigms of the Transformational Vision in the Macarian Homilies (Andrei Orlov, Alexander Golitzin).
• A Testimony to Christianity as Transfiguration: The Macarian Homilies and Orthodox Spirituality (Alexander Golitzin).
• First Oxford Lecture on the Development of Christology (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis).
• Narrative Christologies: The Transfiguration and Post-Resurrection Stories (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis).

• THEME 4: Evagrius of Pontus
• Created and Renewed after the Image of God. About the Biblical-Theological and Sacramental Foundations of Evagrian Mysticism (Gabriël Bunge).

• THEME 5: Ephrem the Syrian
• The Fall of Satan in the Thought of St. Ephrem and John Milton (Gary A. Anderson).
• Syriac Additions to Anderson: the Garden of Eden in the Book of Steps and Philoxenus of Mabbug (Robert A. Kitchen).

• THEME 6: Isaac of Nineveh
• St. Isaac of Nineveh and Syrian Mysticism (Hilarion Alfeyev).
• Incarnation of the Word and Deification of Man According to St. Isaac of Nineveh (Hilarion Alfeev).
• "The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian" by Hilarion Alfeev (Alexander Golitzin).

• THEME 7: Corpus Dionysiacum
• Dionysius Areopagita: A Christian Mysticism? (Alexander Golitzin).
• "Suddenly", Christ: The Place of Negative Theology in the Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagites (Alexander Golitzin).
• Revisiting the "Sudden": Epistle III in the Corpus Dionysiacum (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
• Dionysius Areopagites in the Works of Saint Gregory Palamas: On the Question of a "Christological Corrective" and Related Matters (Alexander Golitzin).

• THEME 8: Jacob of Serug
• The Image and Glory of God in Jacob of Serug's Homily: "On that Chariot that Ezekiel the Prophet Saw" (Alexander Golitzin).
• An Epiphany of Mystical Symbols: Jacob of Sarug's Memra 109 on Abraham and His Types (Richard E. McCarron).

• THEME 9: Mar Narsai
• God Wrapped in the Body: Christology of Mar Narsai (Nikolai Seleznyov). In Russian pdf

• THEME 10: Anthropomorphism in Rabbinic and Eastern Christian Sources
• Metatron as God's Shiur Qomah (Andrei Orlov).
• The Hand of God: A Chapter in Rabbinic Anthropomorphism (Meir Bar-Ilan).
• Tselem: Towards an Anthropopathic Theology of Image (David R. Blumenthal).
• Physical and Metaphysical Measurements Ordained by God (Menahem Kister).
• The Vision of God and Form of Glory (Alexander Golitzin).
• The Visible Christ and the Invisible Trinity (Michel René Barnes).pdf
• The Body of Christ: Saint Symeon the New Theologian on Spiritual Life and the Hierarchical Church (Alexander Golitzin).
• "The Demons Suggest an Illusion of God's Glory in a Form": Controversy over the Divine Body and Vision of Glory in Some Late Fourth, Early Fifth Century Monastic Literature (Alexander Golitzin). pdf

• THEME 11: Baptismal Traditions
• Baptismal Praxis in the Book of Revelation (Charles A. Gieschen). pdf
• The Baptismal Anointings According to the Anonymous Expositio Officiorum (Sebastian Brock).

• THEME 12: Garments of Light
• The Transfiguration, Cosmic Symbolism and the Transformation of Consciousness in the Gospel of Mark (David Ulansey).

• THEME 13: The Holy Spirit Traditions
• Veni Creator Spiritus (Michel Rene Barnes). pdf
• Early Christian Binitarianism: The Father and the Holy Spirit (Michel René Barnes).pdf
• Revisiting Christian Oeyen: “The Other Clement” on Father, Son,and the Angelomorphic Spirit (Bogdan Bucur) pdf
• The Son of God and the Angelomorphic Holy Spirit: A Rereading of the Shepherd’s Christology (Bogdan Bucur) pdf
• The Angelic Spirit in Early Christianity: Justin, the Martyr and Philosopher (Bogdan Bucur) pdf
• Hierarchy, Prophecy, and the Angelomorphic Spirit: A Contribution to the Study of the Book of Revelation’s Wirkungsgeschichte (Bogdan Bucur) pdf

• THEME 14: Prayer
• Angelic Liturgy -Why? (Rachel Elior).
• The Qedushah: Who is Greater - Israel or the Angels? (Reuven Kimelman).
• Studies in Jewish Prayer (Tzvee Zahavy).
• Motivation for Communal Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism (Daniel Falk).
• 1Q/4QMysteries, 4QInstruction and the Roots of the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy (Torleif Elgvin).
• Aprotropaic Prayers From The Second Temple Period (Esther Eshel).
• A Second Temple Non-Temple Liturgy (Joseph Tabory).
• A Temple Prayer for Fast Days (David Levine).
• The Use and Function of Psalms from Qumran: Revisiting the Question (Eileen Schuller).
• The Second Temple Period, Qumran Research and Rabbinic Liturgy: Some Contextual and Linguistic Comparisons (Stefan Reif).
• Prayer in St. Isaac of Nineveh (Hilarion Alfeyev).
• Communal Prayer at Qumran and among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties (Richard Sarason).
• Prayer of the Heart in Hesychasm and in the Hekhalot Writings (Alexander Golitzin).
• Qumran Laments and the Study of Lament Literature (Adele Berlin).
• Human and Angelic Prayer in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Esther Chazon).

• THEME 15: Jewish Temple Traditions and Christan Liturgy
• Enoch as the Heavenly Priest (Andrei Orlov).
• The Temple Roots of the Liturgy (Margaret Barker).
• Beyond the Veil of the Temple. The High Priestly Origin in the Apocalypses (Margaret Barker).
• Parousia and Liturgy (Margaret Barker).
• Atonement: The Rite of Healing (Margaret Barker).
• Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Job 28.12) (Margaret Barker).
• Priestly and Liturgical Roles of Metatron (Andrei Orlov)
• Rachel Elior's New Book "The Temple and Chariot, Priests and Angels, Sanctuary and Heavenly Sanctuaries in Early Jewish Mysticism" (Joseph Dan).
• The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism in Late Antiquity (Rachel Elior).
• The Temple and Chariot, Priests and Angels, Sanctuary and Heavenly Sanctuaries in Early Jewish Mysticism (Rachel Elior).
• Temple and Righteousness in Qumran and Early Christianity (Eyal Regev).
• A Second Temple Non-Temple Liturgy (Joseph Tabory).
• Metatron as the Prince of the Presence (Andrei Orlov).
• Towards a Theology of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture (Gary Anderson). pdf
• The Imagery of Angelic Praise and Heavenly Topography in the Syriac Testament of Our Lord (Grant S. White). pdf
• The Cosmology of P and Theological Anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira. Part I (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
• The Cosmology of P and Theological Anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira. Part II (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
• The Heavenly Veil Torn: Mark's Cosmic "Inclusio" (David Ulansey).
• Zur Beziehung der Liturgien in Judentum und Christentum (Franz D. Hubman).
• Jesus and the High Priest (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf

• THEME 16: The Pseudepigrapha and the Transmission of Jewish Texts and Traditions in Eastern Christian Environment
• Christian Transmission of Greek Jewish Scriptures: A Methodological Probe (Robert Kraft).
• The Pseudepigrapha in Christianity (Robert Kraft).
• Pseudepigrapha and Group Formation in Second Temple Judaism (John J. Collins).
• The Pseudepigrapha and Christianity, Revisited: Setting the Stage and Framing Some Central Questions (Robert Kraft).
• Christianization of Jewish Sources Revisited: Issues of Method (Robert Kraft).
• Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Christian Apocrypha: (How) Can We Tell Them Apart (James R. Davila).
• Scripture and Canon in Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Robert Kraft).
• (How) Can We Tell if a Pseudepigraphon Has Been Translated from Hebrew or Aramaic? (James R. Davila).
• Reflections on Jewish Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Survivals (John C. Reeves).
• Methodological Reflections on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (James R. Davila).
• Pseudepigraphy at Qumran: Categories and Functions (Moshe J. Bernstein).
• The Temple Scroll and the Halakhic Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple Period (Lawrence H. Schiffman).
• Pseudepigrapha in Rabbinic Literature (Mark Bregman).
• Qumran Pseudepigrapha in Early Christianity (Benjamin G. Wright).
• Jewish-Christian Relations (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
• Ritual in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha (James R. Davila).
• The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob (Andrei Orlov). pdf
• "Earthly Angels and Heavenly Men": The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Nicetas Stethatos, and "Interiorized Apocalyptic" (Alexander Golitzin).
• Making the Inside like the Outside: Toward a Monastic Sitz im Leben for the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (Alexander Golitzin).
• "Without Measure and Without Analogy?" Shi^cur Qomah Tradition in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov). pdf

• THEME 17: Adamic Traditions in Jewish and Syrian Christian Writings
• On the Polemical Nature of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: A Reply to C. Böttrich (Andrei Orlov) pdf
• The Life of Adam and Eve: Introduction and Problems of the Text (Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone).
• Recovering the Glory of Adam: Selected Themes from the Dead Sea Scrolls Present in the Macarian Homilies and Other Christian Ascetic Writings of Fourth-Century Syro-Mesopotamia (Alexander Golitzin).
• Paradise Lost (Margaret Barker).
• Vested with Adam's Glory: Moses as the Luminous Counterpart of Adam in the DSS and in the Macarian Homilies (Andrei Orlov). pdf
• Adam and Eve Archive (Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone).
• Adam, Eve, and Seth: Pneumatological Reflections on an Unusual Image (Alexander Golitzin).
• Resurrection of Adam’s Body: The Redeeming Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).

• THEME 18: Noachic Traditions in Jewish and Eastern Christian Environments
• Noah's Younger Brother Revisited: Anti-Noachic Polemics and the Date of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).  pdf
• The Axis of History at Qumran (Michael E. Stone).
• Patriarchs Who Worry About Their Wives: A Haggadic Tendency in the Genesis Apocryphon (George W.E. Nickelsburg).
• Qumran and the Book of Noah (Cana Werman).
• "Noah's Younger Brother": The Anti-Noachic Polemics in 2 Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
• The Flooded Arboretums: The Garden Traditions in the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch and the Book of Giants (Andrei Orlov). pdf

• THEME 19: Enochic Traditions in Jewish and Eastern Christian Environments
• Enoch as the Expert in Secrets (Andrei Orlov).
• Enoch as the Mediator (Andrei Orlov).
• Enoch as the Scribe (Andrei Orlov).
• The Enoch Literature (James C. VanderKam).
• Enoch as a Divine Mediator (James R. Davila).
• Enoch as Precursor (David W. Suter).
• Sefer ^cUzza Wa-^cAza(z)el: Exploring Early Jewish Mythologies of Evil (John C. Reeves).
• Enoch and Written Authorities in Testament of the 12 Patriarchs (Robert Kraft).
• The Greek Fragments of Enoch from Qumran Cave 7 (Ernest A. Muro, Jr.).
• Seven Greek Fragments of the Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 100, 103, and 105) from Qumran Cave 7 (=7QEngr) (Emile Puech).
• The Recovery of the Enochic Library: Intertextuality in Near Eastern Religious Traditions (John C. Reeves).
• Was the Goat for Azazel destined for the Wrath of God? (Jacqueline C.R. De Roo).
• The Flowing Stream (John C. Reeves).
• Ex 33 on God's Face: A Lesson from the Enochic Tradition (Andrei Orlov).
• Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
• The Origin of the Name "Metatron" and the Text of 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
• The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Andrei Orlov).

• THEME 20: Melchizedek Tradition in Jewish and Eastern Christian Environments
• Melchizedek in the MT, LXX, and the NT (Joseph A. Fitzmyer).
• Las tradiciones sobre Melquisedec en los manuscritos de Qumrán (Florentino García Martínez).
• Melchizedek: Gen 14, 17-20 in the Targums, in Rabbinic and Early Christian Literature (Martin McNamara).
• The Heir of Righteousness and the King of Righteousness (Andrei Orlov) pdf
• Melchizedek, Michael, and War in Heaven (James R. Davila).
• Melchizedek: A Model of Union of Kingship and Priesthood (Israel Knohl).
• Melchizedek as a Divine Mediator (James R. Davila).
• Melchizedek Legend of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).

• THEME 21: Josephus' Texts and Traditions in Eastern Christian Environment
• New Resources for the Study of Josephus (Joseph Sievers). pdf
• What Josephus Says about the Essenes in His Judean War. Part I (Steve Mason).
• What Josephus Says about the Essenes in His Judean War. Part II (Steve Mason).
• A Synopsis of Portions of War, Antiquities, and 1-2 Maccabees: Problems and Results (Joseph Sievers). pdf
• Rearrangement of Pentateuchal Material in Josephus' Antiquities, Books 1-4 (Louis H. Feldman).
• Jewish Features in the "Slavonic" War of Josephus (Étienne Nodet). pdf
• "Two Tablets" Traditions from the Book of Giants to Palaea Historica (Andrei Orlov).

• THEME 22: Divine Mediators Figures: Jewish and Christian Traditions
• Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham (Andrei Orlov) pdf
• Metatron as the Mediator (Andrei Orlov).
• Moses' Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian (Andrei Orlov). pdf
• Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch and the Merkabah Tradition (Andrei Orlov). pdf
• Some Observations about Paul and Intermediaries (Alan F. Segal).
• What Do We Mean by "First-Century Jewish Monotheism"? (Larry W. Hurtado).
• Moses as Heavenly Messenger in As. Mos and Qumran Documents (Jan Willem Van-Henten)
• Metatron as the Youth (Andrei Orlov)
• Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature (Daphna Arbel).
• Metatron as the Prince of the World (Andrei Orlov).
• The High Priest as Divine Mediator in the Hebrew Bible: Dan 7:13 as a Test Case. Part I (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
• The High Priest as Divine Mediator in the Hebrew Bible: Dan 7:13 as a Test Case. Part II (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
• Paul's Christology of Divine Identity (Richard Bauckham). pdf
• Was There a "Messiah-Joshua" Tradition at the Turn of the Era? (Robert Kraft).
• A Messiah in Heaven? A Re-evaluation of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Traditions (Cana Werman).
• A Methodology for Studying Divine Mediators (James R.Davila).
• Metatron as the Deity: Lesser YHWH (Andrei Orlov)
• The Son of Man (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis).
• In Praise of Michael the Archangel (Robert Kraft).
• God's Right-Hand Man: A Comparative Study of Jesus Christ and Metatron (Jennifer E. Terry). pdf
• How do the Mediators Figures Illuminate Origins of Worship of Jesus? (James R. Davila).

• THEME 23: Transmission of Jewish Traditions in Christian Environment
• Septuagint/Old Greek (Robert Kraft).
• Lectionary (Dale A. Johnson).
• Lectionaries.
• East Syrian and Armenian Lectionaries (Kevin P. Edgecomb).
• Prophetologion.
• "The Old Testament of the Early Church" Revisited (Albert C. Sundberg, Jr.).
• Early Jewish and Christian Scriptural Artifacts: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Social Significance (Robert Kraft).
• Contrasting Uses of the Greek Bible: Hellenistic-Jewish Literature and the New Testament (Tessa Rajak).
• The Gospel of John and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Harold Attridge).
• The Multiform Jewish Heritage of Early Christianity (Robert Kraft).
• Loose Canons. Reflections on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible (Philip R. Davies).
• The Weighing of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of Early Judaisms and their Early Christian Offspring (Robert Kraft).
• From Jewish Scribes to Christian Scriptoria?: Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity in their Greek Literary Worlds (Robert Kraft).
• L'Ancien Testament dans l'ecclésiologie des Pères. (J. G. Mueller).
• Rethinking the Concept of "Bible": Some Theses and Proposals (James E. Bowley and John C. Reeves). pdf

• THEME 24: Instruction, Initiation, and Special Knowledge: Jewish and Christian Traditions
• Metatron as the Expert in Secrets (Andrei Orlov)
• The Heirs of the Enochic Lore: "Men of Faith" in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer Hekhalot 48D:10 (Andrei Orlov). pdf
• The Angel Story in the Book of Jubilees (James C. VanderKam).
• The Sources of Knowledge in Qumran and in Rabbinic Literature: A Study of the Evolution of a Metaphor (Paul Mandel).
• Wisdom and Instruction in Ben Sira and 1 Enoch (Benjamin G. Wright). pdf
• The Nature and Function of Revelation in 1 Enoch, Jubilees and Some Qumranic Documents (George W.E. Nickelsburg).
• The Judaism(s) of the Damascus Document (Philip R. Davies).
• Metatron as Sar Torah (Andrei Orlov).
• Astral Knowledge and the Authority of the General in Greco-Roman military Manuals: Analogies to the Role of the Maskil in the DSS (Yonder Moynihan Gillihan). pdf
• The Status of the Torah in the Pre-Sinaitic Period: St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (Gary A. Anderson).
• Revealed Wisdom: From the Bible to Qumran (Alexander Rofe).
• Metatron as the Scribe (Andrei Orlov)
• Ancient School Activity in Alexandria and Rome (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
• Wisdom, Apocalypticism, and the Pedagogical Ethos of 4QInstruction (Matthew Goff). pdf
• Study, Ritual and Mystical Experience: Philo's De Vita Contemplativa (Celia Deutsch).
• Philo of Alexandria in Relation to Ancient "School Tradition" Speculation (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
• Practicing the Presence of God in John: Ritual Use of Scripture and the Eidos Theou in John 5:37 (Jonathan A. Draper). pdf
• Secrets of Creation in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
• The Secret Tradition. Part I (Margaret Barker).
• The Secret Tradition. Part II (Margaret Barker).
• Staretz as an Angelus Interpres (Alexander Golitzin).
• The Sar Torah Tradition in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).

• THEME 25: Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Mysticism
• Ascent to Heaven: Nicetas Stethatos, the Liturgies of Heaven and of the Heart, and Elements from the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Alexander Golitzin).
• Heavenly Ascent in Graeco-Roman Piety (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
• The Exegete Goes to Heaven: How Visionaries Read Visions (Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones).
• Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth (Dan Merkur).
• Myth and Mysticism in Early Jewish Literature (Daphna Arbel).
• The Figure of Rabbi Ishmael in the Hekhalot Literature and in Jewish Martyrology as Competing Models of Heavenly Ascent (Ra'anan Abusch).
• The Mystical Understanding in the Ascension of Isaiah (Jonathan Knight).
• Four More Entered Paradise: A Panel Discussion (David J. Halperin).
• Heavenly Ascent and Incarnational Presence A Revisionist Reading of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
• Two Powers and Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism (James McGrath with Jerry Truex).
• The Descent of Christ into Hades in Eastern and Western Theological Traditions (Hilarion Alfeyev).
• Ascent to Heaven in Antiquity (James D. Tabor).
• Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).

• THEME 26: Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Magic
• The Demons of Magic (Morton Smith).
• The Etymology of the Name "Metatron" (Andrei Orlov).
• The Hekhalot Literature and Shamanism (James R. Davila).
• Excerpts from "Ritual Practices to Gain Power" (Rebecca Lesses).
• Amulets and Angels: Visionary Experience in the Testament of Job and the Hekhalot Literature (Rebecca Lesses). pdf
• Ancient Jewish Bibliomancy (Pieter W. van der Horst)
• Christianization and the Transformation of Local Deities (Frank Trombley).
• Powers, Watchers, and Angels: The Paradox of Manichaen Magic (David A. Utz).
• Witches in the Bible and in the Talmud (Meir Bar-Ilan).
• Overview of the Study of Angels and Demons (David Frankfurter).
• Ancient Magic (The Prayer of Jacob) (James R. Davila).
• Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (Hermann Lichtenberger).
• The Experience of Demons (and Angels) in 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Book of Tobit (George W.E. Nickelsburg).
• The "Culture-Hero" Abraham: Ant. 1.154-68 and the Greco-Roman Discourse about Astrology/Astronomy (Annette Yoshiko Reed). pdf
• Ancient Jewish Astrology: An Attempt to Interpret 4QCryptic (4Q186) (Francis Schmidt).
• Magic: the Phenomenon and the Issue in the Graeco-Roman World (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).

• THEME 27: Jewish Traditions and Heterodox Christian Varieties
• The New Testament Apocrypha (Richard Bauckham).
• The Development of the Concept of "Orthodoxy" in Early Christianity (Robert Kraft).
• In Search of "Jewish Christianity" and Its "Theology": Problems of Definition and Methodology (Robert Kraft).
• Shades of Light and Darkness (John C. Reeves).
• Creation: Images Old and New (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
• Special People or Special Books? On Qumran and New Testament Notions of Canon (Daniel Schwartz).
• The Codex and Canon Consciousness (Robert Kraft).
• The DSS and the Apostolic Fathers, with Some Observations on Other Early Christian Literature Apart from the NT (Robert Kraft).
• "Orthodoxy" and "Heresy" in Early Christianity (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (Walter Bauer).

• THEME 28: Sapiential Traditions
• Priestly Sages? The Milieus of Origin of 4QMysteries and 4QInstruction (Torleif Elgvin).
• Revealed Wisdom: From the Bible to Qumran (Alexander Rofe).
• The Categories of Rich and Poor in the Qumran Sapiential Literature (Benjamin Wright).
• The Eschatologizing of Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls (John J. Collins).

   

• THEME 29: Some Issues of the Origins and the Nature of Eastern Christian Mysticism and its Connections with the Greek and Jewish Mystical Traditions
• Theology and Mysticism in the Tradition of the Eastern Church (Vladimir Lossky).
• The Church of the East and Its Theology (Nikolai Seleznyov). pdf
• Theology in the Thirteenth Century: Methodological Contrasts (John Meyendorff).
• L'esychia ovvero la tranquillità interiore ed esteriore (Kallistos Ware).
• Theology and Mysticism in St. Gregory Nazianzen (Hilarion Alfeyev).
• St Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers (Georges Florovsky).
• The Teaching of Gregory Palamas on Man (Panayiotis Christou).
• Theophany as Light: A Background of Clement of Alexandria's Interpretation of the "Day" Abraham Was to See (Arkadi Choufrine). pdf
• Hierarchy Versus Anarchy? Dionysius Areopagita, Symeon the New Theologian, Nicetas Stethatos, and Their Common Roots in Ascetical Tradition (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
• "A Contemplative and A Liturgist": Father Georges Florovsky on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Part I (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
• "A Contemplative and A Liturgist": Father Georges Florovsky on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Part II (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
• Scriptural Images of the Church: An Eastern Orthodox Reflection (Alexander Golitzin).
• "Essence" et "Energies" de Dieu selon St. Gregoire de Nysse (Elias D. Moutsoulas).
• Notes on the Palamite Controversy and Related Topics. Part I (John S. Romanides).
• Notes on the Palamite Controversy and Related Topics. Part II (John S. Romanides).

• THEME 30: Late Jewish Mysticism
• Hiérarchie des anges et hiérarchie sociale (Charles Mopsik).
• A propos d'une polémique récente concernant l'oeuvre de G. Scholem. Considérations méthodologiques et réflexions sur la féminité de la Chekhina dans la cabale (Charles Mopsik).
• Feminine Divine in Early Jewish Mysticism.
• Métaphores et pratiques sexuelles dans la cabale (Moshe Idel).
• Pardes: The Quest for Spiritual Paradise in Judaism (Moshe Idel).
• Défense et illustration de la cabale: Le philosophe et le cabaliste de Moïse Hayyim Luzzatto (Joëlle Hansel)
• Each Man Ate an Angel's Meal: Eating and Embodiment in the Zohar (Joel Hecker).
• "God's Need for the Commandments" in Medieval Kabbalah (Morris M. Faierstein).
• Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, and Mysticism (David R. Blumenthal).
• Croyance et attributs essentiels dans la theologie medievale et moderne (David R. Blumenthal).
• Genèse 1:26-27 : l'Image de Dieu, le couple humain et le statut de la femme chez les premiers cabalistes (Charles Mopsik)
• Observations sur l'oeuvre de Gershom Scholem (Charles Mopsik et Eric Smilevitch).
• Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism (David R. Blumenthal).

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES:

• Bibliographies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Project
• Introductory Readings for the Study of Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period (IOUDAIOS-L)
• Bibliographies (The Dinur Center)
• Bibliographies on the Net (Saundra Lipton).
• Bibliographical Resources on Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Okeanos)
• Select Bibliography for the Study of the Ancient Near East
• Select Bibliography on the History of Ancient Israel and Judah (Victor Matthews)
• Reading List for Ancient Jewish History (The Dinur Center)
• Bibliography on the Hellenistic and Roman Periods in the Near East (Wm. Clay Poe)
• Judaica Bibliography (Mark A.Christian)
• Hebrew Bible Bibliography (Mark A.Christian)
• Genesis Bibliography (Victor Matthews)
• Septuagint Studies Bibliography (Joel Kalvesmaki)
• Orion Dead Sea Scrolls Bibliography
• Ben-Sira Bibliography (Franz Böhmisch)
• The Josephus-Bibliography (Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum)
• Bibliography on the "Slavonic Josephus" (Andrei Orlov)
• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (James R. Davila)
• Bibliography on Jewish Pseudepigrapha (Meir Bar-Illan)
• Bibliography on Jewish and Christian Pseudepigrapha (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov)
• Bibliography on the Book of Jubilees (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Abraham (Andrei Orlov)
• Bibliography on the Ladder of Jacob (Andrei Orlov)
• Bibliography on the Life of Adam and Eve (Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone)
• Bibliography on the Primary Adam Books (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve (Andrei Orlov)
• Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Adam (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Slavonic "Vision of Isaiah" (Andrei Orlov)
• Bibliography on the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch (Andrei Orlov)
• Bibliography on Joseph and Aseneth (Thomas Knittel)
• Joseph & Aseneth Bibliography (Mark Goodacre)
• Bibliography on the Assumption of Moses (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Testament of Abraham (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Testament of Adam (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on 4 Ezra (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Letter of Aristeas (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Elijah (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Zephaniah (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on Pseudo-Philo (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on the Psalms of Solomon (Thomas Knittel)
• Bibliography on Sibylline Oracles (Thomas Knittel)
• Michael E. Stone's Works on Jewish Pseudepigrapha
• The Enochic Library: Preliminary Bibliography (John C. Reeves)
• Bibliography on Jewish Sectarianism (Meir Bar Ilan)
• Jewish Magic Bibliography (Alex Jasen and Scott Noegel)
• Bibliography of Jewish Magic in Antiquity (Meir Bar Ilan)
• Magic Bibliographies and Resources (John-Gabriel Bodard)
• Magie dans l'antiquité gréco-romaine
• Bibliography on Jewish Astrology (Lester Ness)
• Bibliography on Jewish Prayer (Tzvee Zahavy)
• Select Bibliography on the Second Temple Synagogue (Donald D. Binfer)
• Bibliography on Jewish Temple Traditions (Rebecca Luft)
• Bibliography on Targumim (Alex Jassen and Joe Angel)
• Aramaic Bibliography
• Bibliography on Targumic and Cognate Studies
• Midrash Bibliography
• Bibliography of the Talmud
• Guide to the Midrashim (Michael E. Stone and K. William Whitney, Jr.)
• Bibliography for Research in Rabbinic Judaism (Eliezer Segal)
• Basic Bibliography of the Genizah Collection
• Bibliography on Hekhalot Literature (Meir Bar-Ilan)
• Hekhalot Literature in English (Don Karr) pdf
• Bibliography on Divine Mediators (James R. Davila)
• Peter Schäfer's Works on Hekhalot Tradition (1970-1996)
• Metatron Bibliography (Meir Bar-Ilan)
• Lilith Bibliography
• Sefer Yetzirah Bibliography (Scott J. Thompson)
• Bibliography on Medieval Jewish Mysticism (Journal des Études de la Cabale)
• Joseph Dan's Works on Jewish Mysticism
• Selected Bibliography on Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism (Eliezer Segal)
• Bibliography on Monsters and Fabulous Creatures in Jewish Folklore (Meir Bar Ilan)
• Bibliography of Exorcism by Jews (Meir Bar Ilan)
• Bibliography of Khazar Studies (Kevin Alan Brook).
• Rambi: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
• Hebrew University Bibliographic Search
• Search the Jewish Theological Seminary Library
• BiBIL: Bibliographie biblique informatisée de Lausanne
• BILDI: Bibelwissenschaftliche Literaturdokumentation Innsbruck
• New Testament Mysticism Project Seminar
• THEOLDI: Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature (School of Theology at University of Innsbruck)
• Louis Ginzberg's "The Legends of the Jews" On Line (Philologos).
• Journal Abbreviations
• Ancient Abbreviations

 

• Bibliography of Byzantine Sources and Editions (Paul Halsall)
• Bibliography for Late Antiquity
• Bibliography on Eastern Orthodox Mysticism and Spirituality (Alexander Golitzin)
• Cursory Bibliography on Martyrdom (Alexander Golitzin)
• Bibliography on Anthony and the Desert Fathers (William Harmless)
• Bibliography on the Eucharist in the East (William Harmless)
• Bibliography on Christian Initiation (William Harmless) pdf
• Bibliography on Christian Mysticism and Spirituality (William Harmless)
• Bibliography on Early Egyptian Monasticism
• Bibliography on Spirituality in the Early Church (William Harmless)
• Bibliography on Gregory of Nyssa
• Bibliography on Evagrius of Pontus (Joel Kalvesmaki)
• Pubblicazioni recenti su Origene e la tradizione alessandrina
• Bibliografia sull'esicasmo e la preghiera del cuore
• Bibliography on Gnosticism (Diotima)
• A Basic Reading List on Valentinianism
• Bibliography on Gnosticism
• Bibliographies for Theology (William Harmless)
• Database in Patristic (Université Laval. Québec)
• Bibliography on the Syrian Orthodox Tradition
• Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
• Gnomon Online - Bibliographische Datebank
• TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents for Classics-Related Journals
• Bibliotheca Classica Selecta
• Hagiography Database (The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)
• The Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Project

   

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