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Hekhalot literature

Index Hekhalot literature

The Hekhalot literature (sometimes transliterated Heichalot) from the Hebrew word for "Palaces", relating to visions of ascents into heavenly palaces. [1]

18 relations: Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva, Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Middle Ages, Enoch (ancestor of Noah), Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah, List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, Maaseh Merkabah, Merkabah mysticism, Primary texts of Kabbalah, Pseudepigrapha, Sefer HaRazim, Seven Heavens, Shi'ur Qomah, Smaller midrashim, Talmud, The Sword of Moses, 3 Enoch.

Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva

Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva (אותיות דרבי עקיבא, Otiot de-Rabbi Akiva) is a Midrash on the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages or Early Medieval Period, typically regarded as lasting from the 5th or 6th century to the 10th century CE, marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.

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Enoch (ancestor of Noah)

Enoch is a character of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible.

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Gershom Scholem

Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Israel, changed his name to Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גרשום שלום) (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian.

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Kabbalah

Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה, literally "parallel/corresponding," or "received tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism.

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List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha

Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.

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Maaseh Merkabah

The Ma'aseh Merkabah ("Work of the Chariot" מעשה מרכבה) is a Hebrew-language Jewish mystical text dating from the Gaonic period which comprises a collection of hymns recited by the "descenders" and heard during their ascent.

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Merkabah mysticism

Merkabah/Merkavah mysticism (or Chariot mysticism) is a school of early Jewish mysticism, c. 100 BCE – 1000 CE, centered on visions such as those found in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 1, or in the hekhalot ("palaces") literature, concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly palaces and the Throne of God.

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Primary texts of Kabbalah

The primary texts of Kabbalah were once part of an ongoing oral tradition.

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Pseudepigrapha

Pseudepigrapha (also anglicized as "pseudepigraph" or "pseudepigraphs") are falsely-attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.

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Sefer HaRazim

Sefer HaRazim (ספר הרזים, "Book of Secrets") is a Jewish mystical text supposedly given to Noah by the angel Raziel, and passed down throughout Biblical history to Solomon, for whom it was a great source of his wisdom, and purported magical powers.

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Seven Heavens

In religious or mythological cosmology, the seven heavens refer to the seven divisions of the Heaven, the abode of immortal beings, or the visible sky, the expanse containing the Sun, Moon and the stars.

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Shi'ur Qomah

Shi’ur Qomah (Hebrew: שיעור קומה, lit. Divine Dimensions) is a Midrashic text that is part of the Heichalot literature.

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Smaller midrashim

A number of midrashim exist which are smaller in size, and generally later in date, than those dealt with in the articles Midrash Haggadah and Midrash Halakah.

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Talmud

The Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root LMD "teach, study") is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and theology.

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The Sword of Moses

The Sword of Moses is the title of an apocryphal Jewish book of magic edited by Moses Gaster in Palestine, in 1896 from a 13th- or 14th-century manuscript from his own collection, formerly MS Gaster 78, now London, British Library MS Or.

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3 Enoch

3 Enoch is Biblical apocryphal in Hebrew.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekhalot_literature

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