The mystery of God : : early Jewish mysticism and the New Testament / / by Christopher Rowland and Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones.

• Author: Rowland, Christopher, 1947-
• TeilnehmendeR: Morray-Jones, Christopher R. A.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (716 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Mysticism And New Testament /; Apocalypticism: The Disclosure Of Heavenly Knowledge /; Enoch In Jewish And Early Christian Tradition /; Revelation And The Apocalyptic Visions Of God /; The Mystical Element In The Gospels And Acts /; Paul And The Apocalypse Of Jesus Christ /; Christ Hidden And Revealed: Hebrews, Ephesians And Related Texts /; The Ascension Of Isaiah And The Road To Gnosticism /; Things Into Which Angels Long To Look: Apocalypticism, Mysticism And Eschatology In The New Testament /; Merkava Mysticism In Rabbinic And Hekhalot Literature /; A Version Of Hekhalot Zutarti /; The Temple Within: The Embodied Divine Image And Its Worship In The Dead Sea Scrolls And Other Early Jewish And Christian Sources /; The Ascent Into Paradise: Paul'S Apostolic Calling And Its Background /; Methods And Assumptions In Interpreting Mystical And Rabbinic Texts: The Case Of The Four Who Entered Pardes /; The Shiur Koma And The Angelic "Youth" /; Shiur Koma Traditions In Jewish And Hellenistic Sources /; The Epistle To The Ephesians /; Cumulative Bibliography /; Source Index /; INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND NAMES /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-645) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1282602594; 9786612602597; 9047428765
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Christopher Rowland and Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones.

This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate aspects of New Testament theology. The first part begins with a consideration of the mystical character of apocalypticism and then uses the Book of Revelation and the development of views about the heavenly mediator figure of Enoch to explore the importance of apocalypticism in the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters and finally the key theological themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to New Testament interpretation.