Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Descenders to the Chariot: The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature

Bok av James. Davila
Drawing on anthropological models and epigraphic and archaeologicale evidence, this book aims to show that the Hekhalot literature preserves the teachings and rituals of real religious functionaries who flourished in late antiquity, functionaries quite like those called shamans by antrhopologists.