دانلود کتاب Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 53)

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Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology: The Malleable Self and the Presence of God
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The Self and the Mystical Experience
1 Prefatory Remarks
2 The Self and Self-transformation
2.1 The Study of the Self
2.2 Components of Self-transformation
2.3 The Mystical Experience
2.4 The Mystical Text
3 The Status Quaestionis
3.1 Scholarly Interest in Self-transformation
3.2 Jewish Mysticism and Self-transformation
3.3 Moving Forward
4 Outline of Study
4.1 A Note on the Structure
4.2 Chapter 2
4.3 Chapter 3
4.4 Chapter 4
4.5 Chapter 5
4.6 Chapter 6
4.7 Chapter 7
5 Concluding Remarks
2 Aseneth, the Anti-Eve: The Re-created Self in an Egyptian Jewish Tale
1 Prefatory Remarks
1.1 The Present Chapter
1.2 Overview of Joseph and Aseneth
2 Conversion and the New Creation
2.1 The Anthropos and the Pure Aseneth
2.2 The Promise of Transformation
2.3 Aseneth’s Holistic Transformation
3 A Meal of Astronomical Significance
3.1 ‘Bring Me Also a Honeycomb’
3.2 The Honeycomb as the Spirit of Life
3.3 Aseneth’s Transformation and the New Creation
3.4 Aseneth Radiant like the Angels
3.5 Whom Does Aseneth Represent?
4 Concluding Remarks
3 Philo’s Bridge to Perfection: De opificio mundi and the End of the Self
1 Prefatory Remarks
1.1 The Present Chapter
1.2 Philo Judaeus and De opificio mundi
1.3 Overview of De opificio mundi 144
2 The Created Ontological State
2.1 The Divinity of the Mind
2.2 The Self as a Blending of Mortal and Divine
3 The Liminal Ontological State
3.1 Betwixt and between
3.2 Engagement with the Body
4 The End of the Self
4.1 Telos and Assimilation to God
4.2 Assimilation in Plato, Galen and Philo
5 Concluding Remarks
4 God’s Anthropomorphous House: The Self-constructed Temple at Qumran
1 Prefatory Remarks
1.1 The Present Chapter
1.2 Overview of Serekh ha-Yahad
1.3 1QS and the Sectarian Movement
2 The Living Temple in Serekh ha-Yahad
2.1 The Community as the Temple
2.2 The Communal Experience of Unio Angelica
2.3 The Community as Dwelling Space
2.4 The Human Temple in 4QFlorilegium
3 Self-construction in the Sabbath Shirot
3.1 Overview of the Sabbath Shirot
3.2 Constructing the Living Temple
3.3 The Fusion of the Sectarian Self
4 Concluding Remarks
5 When Disciples Enter Heavenly Space: Self-transformation in Bavli Sotah 49a
1 Prefatory Remarks
1.1 The Present Chapter
1.2 The Bavli and Tractate Sotah
2 Bavli Sotah 49a and the Mystical Experience
2.1 Encountering God in His Celestial Temple
2.2 The Plight—A World in דחק
2.3 The Solution—Occupation in Torah
2.4 The Reward—Having One’s Prayer Heard
3 Self-transformation in Rabbinic Judaism
3.1 Change and Satisfaction in Bavli Sotah 49a
3.2 Eating God in Early Judaism
3.3 When Disciples Enter Heavenly Space
4 Concluding Remarks
6 Transformed by His Glory: Self-glorification in Hekhalot Zutarti
1 Prefatory Remarks
1.1 The Present Chapter
1.2 Overview of Hekhalot Zutarti
2 Ritual Technology and the Descent Within
2.1 The Purpose of Hekhalot Zutarti
2.2 Making Use of Divine Names
2.3 Technologies of the Body
3 Self-destruction and Self-glorification
3.1 Hekhalot Zutarti 348–350
3.2 Transformed by His Glory
3.3 Transformation via Death
3.4 Descenders as Superhuman Creatures
3.5 Able to See God
3.6 The Mimetic Body
4 Concluding Remarks
7 Conclusion: Towards a Mimetic Anthropology of Early Judaism
1 Prefatory Remarks
1.1 The Foregoing Study
1.2 Our Approach to the Self
2 The Results of Our Study
2.1 Summarising the Results
2.2 Chapter 2
2.3 Chapter 3
2.4 Chapter 4
2.5 Chapter 5
2.6 Chapter 6
3 Concluding Remarks
3.1 Towards a Mimetic Anthropology
3.2 Limitations and Implications
Bibliography
Primary Texts
Secondary Literature
Index of Authors
Index of Sources
Index of Subjects