Secrets without Mystery
This paper explores the rhetoric of secrecy in Hekhalot literature, a corpus of Jewish mystical and magical writings from late antiquity. I argue that the essential relationship between secrecy and mystery that characterizes the tradition of “western esotericism” does not obtain for Hekhalot literat...
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Brill
2015
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Aries
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-15 |
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Ancient Judaism
Jewish mysticism
Hekhalot literature
esotericism
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