Divine Abstract Qualities and God’s Middot in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature

The starting point of the article is a much-studied rabbinic tradition concerning ten abstract qualities by which the world was created. I contend that other rabbinic passages, concerning seven abstract qualities that minister before God’s throne, and seven—or ten—abstract qualities by which the wor...

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Main Author: Kister, Menahem (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2024, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-259
Further subjects:B Pseudepigrapha
B pluriformity of traditions
B conceptions of the Deity
B Qumran
B Angels
B Rabbinic Literature
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