Using the Internet at Bible College (2)
Another instalment of academic sites of particualr interest to the postgraduate class.
§ THEME 1: Jewish and Christian Mysticism: Definitions
§ Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
§ Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. A Collage of Working Definitions (April D. DeConick, Daphna Arbel, Cameron Afzal, James R. Davila, Celia Deutsch, Charles A. Gieschen, Alexander Golitzin, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Andrea Lieber, Dan Merkur, Philip B. Munoa III, Christopher Rowland, Alan F. Segal, Elliot Wolfson). pdf
§ What is Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism? (April D. DeConick) pdf
§ Spirituality: Eastern Christian (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Liturgy and Mysticism: The Experience of God in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Part I (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ Liturgy and Mysticism: The Experience of God in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Part II (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ THEME 2: Aphrahat
§ The Place of the Presence of God: Aphrahat of Persia’s Portrait of the Christian Holy Man (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Mystical Themes in Aphrahat (Alexander Golitzin).
§ THEME 3: The Macarian Homilies
§ Paradigms of the Transformational Vision in the Macarian Homilies (Andrei Orlov, Alexander Golitzin).
§ A Testimony to Christianity as Transfiguration: The Macarian Homilies and Orthodox Spirituality (Alexander Golitzin).
§ First Oxford Lecture on the Development of Christology (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis).
§ Narrative Christologies: The Transfiguration and Post-Resurrection Stories (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis).
§ THEME 4: Evagrius of Pontus
§ Created and Renewed after the Image of God. About the Biblical-Theological and Sacramental Foundations of Evagrian Mysticism (Gabriël Bunge).
§ THEME 5: Ephrem the Syrian
§ The Fall of Satan in the Thought of St. Ephrem and John Milton (Gary A. Anderson).
§ Syriac Additions to Anderson: the Garden of Eden in the Book of Steps and Philoxenus of Mabbug (Robert A. Kitchen).
§ THEME 6: Isaac of Nineveh
§ St. Isaac of Nineveh and Syrian Mysticism (Hilarion Alfeyev).
§ Incarnation of the Word and Deification of Man According to St. Isaac of Nineveh (Hilarion Alfeev).
§ “The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian” by Hilarion Alfeev (Alexander Golitzin).
§ THEME 7: Corpus Dionysiacum
§ Dionysius Areopagita: A Christian Mysticism? (Alexander Golitzin).
§ “Suddenly”, Christ: The Place of Negative Theology in the Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagites (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Revisiting the “Sudden”: Epistle III in the Corpus Dionysiacum (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ Dionysius Areopagites in the Works of Saint Gregory Palamas: On the Question of a “Christological Corrective” and Related Matters (Alexander Golitzin).
§ THEME 8: Jacob of Serug
§ The Image and Glory of God in Jacob of Serug’s Homily: “On that Chariot that Ezekiel the Prophet Saw” (Alexander Golitzin).
§ An Epiphany of Mystical Symbols: Jacob of Sarug’s Memra 109 on Abraham and His Types (Richard E. McCarron).
§ THEME 9: Mar Narsai
§ God Wrapped in the Body: Christology of Mar Narsai (Nikolai Seleznyov). In Russian pdf
§ THEME 10: Anthropomorphism in Rabbinic and Eastern Christian Sources
§ Metatron as God’s Shiur Qomah (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Hand of God: A Chapter in Rabbinic Anthropomorphism (Meir Bar-Ilan).
§ Tselem: Towards an Anthropopathic Theology of Image (David R. Blumenthal).
§ Physical and Metaphysical Measurements Ordained by God (Menahem Kister).
§ The Vision of God and Form of Glory (Alexander Golitzin).
§ The Visible Christ and the Invisible Trinity (Michel René Barnes).pdf
§ The Body of Christ: Saint Symeon the New Theologian on Spiritual Life and the Hierarchical Church (Alexander Golitzin).
§ “The Demons Suggest an Illusion of God’s Glory in a Form”: Controversy over the Divine Body and Vision of Glory in Some Late Fourth, Early Fifth Century Monastic Literature (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ THEME 11: Baptismal Traditions
§ Baptismal Praxis in the Book of Revelation (Charles A. Gieschen). pdf
§ The Baptismal Anointings According to the Anonymous Expositio Officiorum (Sebastian Brock).
§ THEME 12: Garments of Light
§ The Transfiguration, Cosmic Symbolism and the Transformation of Consciousness in the Gospel of Mark (David Ulansey).
§ THEME 13: Prayer
§ Angelic Liturgy -Why? (Rachel Elior).
§ The Qedushah: Who is Greater – Israel or the Angels? (Reuven Kimelman).
§ Studies in Jewish Prayer (Tzvee Zahavy).
§ Motivation for Communal Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism (Daniel Falk).
§ 1Q/4QMysteries, 4QInstruction and the Roots of the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy (Torleif Elgvin).
§ Aprotropaic Prayers From The Second Temple Period (Esther Eshel).
§ A Second Temple Non-Temple Liturgy (Joseph Tabory).
§ A Temple Prayer for Fast Days (David Levine).
§ The Use and Function of Psalms from Qumran: Revisiting the Question (Eileen Schuller).
§ The Second Temple Period, Qumran Research and Rabbinic Liturgy: Some Contextual and Linguistic Comparisons (Stefan Reif).
§ Prayer in St. Isaac of Nineveh (Hilarion Alfeyev).
§ Communal Prayer at Qumran and among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties (Richard Sarason).
§ Prayer of the Heart in Hesychasm and in the Hekhalot Writings (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Qumran Laments and the Study of Lament Literature (Adele Berlin).
§ Human and Angelic Prayer in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Esther Chazon).
§ THEME 14: Jewish Temple Traditions and Christan Liturgy
§ Enoch as the Heavenly Priest (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Temple Roots of the Liturgy (Margaret Barker).
§ Beyond the Veil of the Temple. The High Priestly Origin in the Apocalypses (Margaret Barker).
§ Parousia and Liturgy (Margaret Barker).
§ Atonement: The Rite of Healing (Margaret Barker).
§ Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Job 28.12) (Margaret Barker).
§ Priestly and Liturgical Roles of Metatron (Andrei Orlov)
§ Rachel Elior’s New Book “The Temple and Chariot, Priests and Angels, Sanctuary and Heavenly Sanctuaries in Early Jewish Mysticism” (Joseph Dan).
§ The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism in Late Antiquity (Rachel Elior).
§ The Temple and Chariot, Priests and Angels, Sanctuary and Heavenly Sanctuaries in Early Jewish Mysticism (Rachel Elior).
§ Temple and Righteousness in Qumran and Early Christianity (Eyal Regev).
§ A Second Temple Non-Temple Liturgy (Joseph Tabory).
§ Metatron as the Prince of the Presence (Andrei Orlov).
§ Towards a Theology of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture (Gary Anderson). pdf
§ The Imagery of Angelic Praise and Heavenly Topography in the Syriac Testament of Our Lord (Grant S. White). pdf
§ The Cosmology of P and Theological Anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira. Part I (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
§ The Cosmology of P and Theological Anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira. Part II (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
§ The Heavenly Veil Torn: Mark’s Cosmic “Inclusio” (David Ulansey).
§ Zur Beziehung der Liturgien in Judentum und Christentum (Franz D. Hubman).
§ Jesus and the High Priest (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
§ THEME 15: The Pseudepigrapha and the Transmission of Jewish Texts and Traditions in Eastern Christian Environment
§ Christian Transmission of Greek Jewish Scriptures: A Methodological Probe (Robert Kraft).
§ The Pseudepigrapha in Christianity (Robert Kraft).
§ Pseudepigrapha and Group Formation in Second Temple Judaism (John J. Collins).
§ The Pseudepigrapha and Christianity, Revisited: Setting the Stage and Framing Some Central Questions (Robert Kraft).
§ Christianization of Jewish Sources Revisited: Issues of Method (Robert Kraft).
§ Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Christian Apocrypha: (How) Can We Tell Them Apart (James R. Davila).
§ Scripture and Canon in Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Robert Kraft).
§ (How) Can We Tell if a Pseudepigraphon Has Been Translated from Hebrew or Aramaic? (James R. Davila).
§ Reflections on Jewish Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Survivals (John C. Reeves).
§ Methodological Reflections on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (James R. Davila).
§ Pseudepigraphy at Qumran: Categories and Functions (Moshe J. Bernstein).
§ The Temple Scroll and the Halakhic Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple Period (Lawrence H. Schiffman).
§ Pseudepigrapha in Rabbinic Literature (Mark Bregman).
§ Qumran Pseudepigrapha in Early Christianity (Benjamin G. Wright).
§ Jewish-Christian Relations (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ Ritual in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha (James R. Davila).
§ The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ “Earthly Angels and Heavenly Men”: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Nicetas Stethatos, and “Interiorized Apocalyptic” (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Making the Inside like the Outside: Toward a Monastic Sitz im Leben for the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (Alexander Golitzin).
§ “Without Measure and Without Analogy?” Shicur Qomah Tradition in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ THEME 16: Adamic Traditions in Jewish and Syrian Christian Writings
§ On the Polemical Nature of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: A Reply to C. Böttrich (Andrei Orlov) pdf
§ The Life of Adam and Eve: Introduction and Problems of the Text (Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone).
§ Recovering the Glory of Adam: Selected Themes from the Dead Sea Scrolls Present in the Macarian Homilies and Other Christian Ascetic Writings of Fourth-Century Syro-Mesopotamia (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Paradise Lost (Margaret Barker).
§ Vested with Adam’s Glory: Moses as the Luminous Counterpart of Adam in the DSS and in the Macarian Homilies (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ Adam and Eve Archive (Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone).
§ Adam, Eve, and Seth: Pneumatological Reflections on an Unusual Image (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Resurrection of Adam’s Body: The Redeeming Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ THEME 17: Noachic Traditions in Jewish and Eastern Christian Environments
§ Noah’s Younger Brother Revisited: Anti-Noachic Polemics and the Date of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ The Axis of History at Qumran (Michael E. Stone).
§ Patriarchs Who Worry About Their Wives: A Haggadic Tendency in the Genesis Apocryphon (George W.E. Nickelsburg).
§ Qumran and the Book of Noah (Cana Werman).
§ “Noah’s Younger Brother”: The Anti-Noachic Polemics in 2 Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Flooded Arboretums: The Garden Traditions in the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch and the Book of Giants (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ THEME 18: Enochic Traditions in Jewish and Eastern Christian Environments
§ Enoch as the Expert in Secrets (Andrei Orlov).
§ Enoch as the Mediator (Andrei Orlov).
§ Enoch as the Scribe (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Enoch Literature (James C. VanderKam).
§ Enoch as a Divine Mediator (James R. Davila).
§ Enoch as Precursor (David W. Suter).
§ Sefer cUzza Wa-cAza(z)el: Exploring Early Jewish Mythologies of Evil (John C. Reeves).
§ Enoch and Written Authorities in Testament of the 12 Patriarchs (Robert Kraft).
§ The Greek Fragments of Enoch from Qumran Cave 7 (Ernest A. Muro, Jr.).
§ Seven Greek Fragments of the Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 100, 103, and 105) from Qumran Cave 7 (=7QEngr) (Emile Puech).
§ The Recovery of the Enochic Library: Intertextuality in Near Eastern Religious Traditions (John C. Reeves).
§ Was the Goat for Azazel destined for the Wrath of God? (Jacqueline C.R. De Roo).
§ The Flowing Stream (John C. Reeves).
§ Ex 33 on God’s Face: A Lesson from the Enochic Tradition (Andrei Orlov).
§ Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Origin of the Name “Metatron” and the Text of 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Andrei Orlov).
§ THEME 19: Melchizedek Tradition in Jewish and Eastern Christian Environments
§ Melchizedek in the MT, LXX, and the NT (Joseph A. Fitzmyer).
§ Las tradiciones sobre Melquisedec en los manuscritos de Qumrán (Florentino García Martínez).
§ Melchizedek: Gen 14, 17-20 in the Targums, in Rabbinic and Early Christian Literature (Martin McNamara).
§ The Heir of Righteousness and the King of Righteousness (Andrei Orlov) pdf
§ Melchizedek, Michael, and War in Heaven (James R. Davila).
§ Melchizedek: A Model of Union of Kingship and Priesthood (Israel Knohl).
§ Melchizedek as a Divine Mediator (James R. Davila).
§ Melchizedek Legend of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ THEME 20: Josephus’ Texts and Traditions in Eastern Christian Environment
§ New Resources for the Study of Josephus (Joseph Sievers). pdf
§ What Josephus Says about the Essenes in His Judean War. Part I (Steve Mason).
§ What Josephus Says about the Essenes in His Judean War. Part II (Steve Mason).
§ A Synopsis of Portions of War, Antiquities, and 1-2 Maccabees: Problems and Results (Joseph Sievers). pdf
§ Rearrangement of Pentateuchal Material in Josephus’ Antiquities, Books 1-4 (Louis H. Feldman).
§ Jewish Features in the “Slavonic” War of Josephus (Étienne Nodet). pdf
§ “Two Tablets” Traditions from the Book of Giants to Palaea Historica (Andrei Orlov).
§ THEME 21: Divine Mediators Figures: Jewish and Christian Traditions
§ Metatron as the Mediator (Andrei Orlov).
§ Moses’ Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch and the Merkabah Tradition (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ Some Observations about Paul and Intermediaries (Alan F. Segal).
§ What Do We Mean by “First-Century Jewish Monotheism”? (Larry W. Hurtado).
§ Veni Creator Spiritus (Michel Rene Barnes). pdf
§ Moses as Heavenly Messenger in As. Mos and Qumran Documents (Jan Willem Van-Henten)
§ Metatron as the Youth (Andrei Orlov)
§ Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature (Daphna Arbel).
§ Metatron as the Prince of the World (Andrei Orlov).
§ The High Priest as Divine Mediator in the Hebrew Bible: Dan 7:13 as a Test Case. Part I (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
§ The High Priest as Divine Mediator in the Hebrew Bible: Dan 7:13 as a Test Case. Part II (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
§ Early Christian Binitarianism: The Father and the Holy Spirit (Michel René Barnes).pdf
§ Paul’s Christology of Divine Identity (Richard Bauckham). pdf
§ Was There a “Messiah-Joshua” Tradition at the Turn of the Era? (Robert Kraft).
§ A Messiah in Heaven? A Re-evaluation of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Traditions (Cana Werman).
§ A Methodology for Studying Divine Mediators (James R.Davila).
§ Metatron as the Deity: Lesser YHWH (Andrei Orlov)
§ The Son of Man (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis).
§ In Praise of Michael the Archangel (Robert Kraft).
§ God’s Right-Hand Man: A Comparative Study of Jesus Christ and Metatron (Jennifer E. Terry). pdf
§ How do the Mediators Figures Illuminate Origins of Worship of Jesus? (James R. Davila).
§ THEME 22: Transmission of Jewish Traditions in Christian Environment
§ Septuagint/Old Greek (Robert Kraft).
§ Lectionary (Dale A. Johnson).
§ Lectionaries.
§ East Syrian and Armenian Lectionaries (Kevin P. Edgecomb).
§ “The Old Testament of the Early Church” Revisited (Albert C. Sundberg, Jr.).
§ Early Jewish and Christian Scriptural Artifacts: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Social Significance (Robert Kraft).
§ Contrasting Uses of the Greek Bible: Hellenistic-Jewish Literature and the New Testament (Tessa Rajak).
§ The Gospel of John and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Harold Attridge).
§ The Multiform Jewish Heritage of Early Christianity (Robert Kraft).
§ Loose Canons. Reflections on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible (Philip R. Davies).
§ The Weighing of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of Early Judaisms and their Early Christian Offspring (Robert Kraft).
§ From Jewish Scribes to Christian Scriptoria?: Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity in their Greek Literary Worlds (Robert Kraft).
§ L’Ancien Testament dans l’ecclésiologie des Pères. (J. G. Mueller).
§ Rethinking the Concept of “Bible”: Some Theses and Proposals (James E. Bowley and John C. Reeves). pdf
§ THEME 23: Instruction, Initiation, and Special Knowledge: Jewish and Christian Traditions
§ Metatron as the Expert in Secrets (Andrei Orlov)
§ The Heirs of the Enochic Lore: “Men of Faith” in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer Hekhalot 48D:10 (Andrei Orlov). pdf
§ The Angel Story in the Book of Jubilees (James C. VanderKam).
§ The Sources of Knowledge in Qumran and in Rabbinic Literature: A Study of the Evolution of a Metaphor (Paul Mandel).
§ Wisdom and Instruction in Ben Sira and 1 Enoch (Benjamin G. Wright). pdf
§ The Nature and Function of Revelation in 1 Enoch, Jubilees and Some Qumranic Documents (George W.E. Nickelsburg).
§ The Judaism(s) of the Damascus Document (Philip R. Davies).
§ Metatron as Sar Torah (Andrei Orlov).
§ Astral Knowledge and the Authority of the General in Greco-Roman military Manuals: Analogies to the Role of the Maskil in the DSS (Yonder Moynihan Gillihan). pdf
§ The Status of the Torah in the Pre-Sinaitic Period: St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Gary A. Anderson).
§ Revealed Wisdom: From the Bible to Qumran (Alexander Rofe).
§ Metatron as the Scribe (Andrei Orlov)
§ Ancient School Activity in Alexandria and Rome (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ Wisdom, Apocalypticism, and the Pedagogical Ethos of 4QInstruction (Matthew Goff). pdf
§ Study, Ritual and Mystical Experience: Philo’s De Vita Contemplativa (Celia Deutsch).
§ Philo of Alexandria in Relation to Ancient “School Tradition” Speculation (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ Practicing the Presence of God in John: Ritual Use of Scripture and the Eidos Theou in John 5:37 (Jonathan A. Draper). pdf
§ Secrets of Creation in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Secret Tradition. Part I (Margaret Barker).
§ The Secret Tradition. Part II (Margaret Barker).
§ Staretz as an Angelus Interpres (Alexander Golitzin).
§ The Sar Torah Tradition in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov).
§ THEME 24: Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Mysticism
§ Ascent to Heaven: Nicetas Stethatos, the Liturgies of Heaven and of the Heart, and Elements from the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Alexander Golitzin).
§ Heavenly Ascent in Graeco-Roman Piety (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ The Exegete Goes to Heaven: How Visionaries Read Visions (Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones).
§ Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth (Dan Merkur).
§ Myth and Mysticism in Early Jewish Literature (Daphna Arbel).
§ The Figure of Rabbi Ishmael in the Hekhalot Literature and in Jewish Martyrology as Competing Models of Heavenly Ascent (Ra’anan Abusch).
§ The Mystical Understanding in the Ascension of Isaiah (Jonathan Knight).
§ Four More Entered Paradise: A Panel Discussion (David J. Halperin).
§ Heavenly Ascent and Incarnational Presence A Revisionist Reading of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis). pdf
§ Two Powers and Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism (James McGrath with Jerry Truex).
§ The Descent of Christ into Hades in Eastern and Western Theological Traditions (Hilarion Alfeyev).
§ Ascent to Heaven in Antiquity (James D. Tabor).
§ Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ THEME 25: Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Magic
§ The Demons of Magic (Morton Smith).
§ The Etymology of the Name “Metatron” (Andrei Orlov).
§ The Hekhalot Literature and Shamanism (James R. Davila).
§ Excerpts from “Ritual Practices to Gain Power” (Rebecca Lesses).
§ Amulets and Angels: Visionary Experience in the Testament of Job and the Hekhalot Literature (Rebecca Lesses). pdf
§ Ancient Jewish Bibliomancy (Pieter W. van der Horst)
§ Christianization and the Transformation of Local Deities (Frank Trombley).
§ Powers, Watchers, and Angels: The Paradox of Manichaen Magic (David A. Utz).
§ Witches in the Bible and in the Talmud (Meir Bar-Ilan).
§ Overview of the Study of Angels and Demons (David Frankfurter).
§ Ancient Magic (The Prayer of Jacob) (James R. Davila).
§ Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (Hermann Lichtenberger).
§ The Experience of Demons (and Angels) in 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Book of Tobit (George W.E. Nickelsburg).
§ The “Culture-Hero” Abraham: Ant. 1.154-68 and the Greco-Roman Discourse about Astrology/Astronomy (Annette Yoshiko Reed). pdf
§ Ancient Jewish Astrology: An Attempt to Interpret 4QCryptic (4Q186) (Francis Schmidt).
§ Magic: the Phenomenon and the Issue in the Graeco-Roman World (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ THEME 26: Jewish Traditions and Heterodox Christian Varieties
§ The New Testament Apocrypha (Richard Bauckham).
§ The Development of the Concept of “Orthodoxy” in Early Christianity (Robert Kraft).
§ In Search of “Jewish Christianity” and Its “Theology”: Problems of Definition and Methodology (Robert Kraft).
§ Shades of Light and Darkness (John C. Reeves).
§ Creation: Images Old and New (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ Special People or Special Books? On Qumran and New Testament Notions of Canon (Daniel Schwartz).
§ The Codex and Canon Consciousness (Robert Kraft).
§ The DSS and the Apostolic Fathers, with Some Observations on Other Early Christian Literature Apart from the NT (Robert Kraft).
§ “Orthodoxy” and “Heresy” in Early Christianity (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins).
§ Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (Walter Bauer).
§ THEME 27: Sapiential Traditions
§ Priestly Sages? The Milieus of Origin of 4QMysteries and 4QInstruction (Torleif Elgvin).
§ Revealed Wisdom: From the Bible to Qumran (Alexander Rofe).
§ The Categories of Rich and Poor in the Qumran Sapiential Literature (Benjamin Wright).
§ The Eschatologizing of Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls (John J. Collins).
§ THEME 28: Some Issues of the Origins and the Nature of Eastern Christian Mysticism and its Connections with the Greek and Jewish Mystical Traditions
§ Theology and Mysticism in the Tradition of the Eastern Church (Vladimir Lossky).
§ The Church of the East and Its Theology (Nikolai Seleznyov). pdf
§ Theology in the Thirteenth Century: Methodological Contrasts (John Meyendorff).
§ L’esychia ovvero la tranquillità interiore ed esteriore (Kallistos Ware).
§ Theology and Mysticism in St. Gregory Nazianzen (Hilarion Alfeyev).
§ St Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers (Georges Florovsky).
§ The Teaching of Gregory Palamas on Man (Panayiotis Christou).
§ Theophany as Light: A Background of Clement of Alexandria’s Interpretation of the “Day” Abraham Was to See (Arkadi Choufrine). pdf
§ Hierarchy Versus Anarchy? Dionysius Areopagita, Symeon the New Theologian, Nicetas Stethatos, and Their Common Roots in Ascetical Tradition (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ “A Contemplative and A Liturgist”: Father Georges Florovsky on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Part I (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ “A Contemplative and A Liturgist”: Father Georges Florovsky on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Part II (Alexander Golitzin). pdf
§ Scriptural Images of the Church: An Eastern Orthodox Reflection (Alexander Golitzin).
§ “Essence” et “Energies” de Dieu selon St. Gregoire de Nysse (Elias D. Moutsoulas).
§ Notes on the Palamite Controversy and Related Topics. Part I (John S. Romanides).
§ Notes on the Palamite Controversy and Related Topics. Part II (John S. Romanides).
§ THEME 29: Late Jewish Mysticism
§ Hiérarchie des anges et hiérarchie sociale (Charles Mopsik).
§ A propos d’une polémique récente concernant l’oeuvre de G. Scholem. Considérations méthodologiques et réflexions sur la féminité de la Chekhina dans la cabale (Charles Mopsik).
§ Feminine Divine in Early Jewish Mysticism.
§ Métaphores et pratiques sexuelles dans la cabale (Moshe Idel).
§ Pardes: The Quest for Spiritual Paradise in Judaism (Moshe Idel).
§ Défense et illustration de la cabale: Le philosophe et le cabaliste de Moïse Hayyim Luzzatto (Joëlle Hansel)
§ Each Man Ate an Angel’s Meal: Eating and Embodiment in the Zohar (Joel Hecker).
§ “God’s Need for the Commandments” in Medieval Kabbalah (Morris M. Faierstein).
§ Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, and Mysticism (David R. Blumenthal).
§ Croyance et attributs essentiels dans la theologie medievale et moderne (David R. Blumenthal).
§ Genèse 1:26-27 : l’Image de Dieu, le couple humain et le statut de la femme chez les premiers cabalistes (Charles Mopsik)
§ Observations sur l’oeuvre de Gershom Scholem (Charles Mopsik et Eric Smilevitch).
§ Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism (David R. Blumenthal).
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES:
· Bibliographies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Project
· Introductory Readings for the Study of Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period (IOUDAIOS-L)
· Bibliographies (The Dinur Center)
· Bibliographies on the Net (Saundra Lipton).
· Bibliographical Resources on Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Okeanos)
· Select Bibliography for the Study of the Ancient Near East
· Select Bibliography on the History of Ancient Israel and Judah (Victor Matthews)
· Reading List for Ancient Jewish History (The Dinur Center)
· Bibliography on the Hellenistic and Roman Periods in the Near East (Wm. Clay Poe)
· Judaica Bibliography (Mark A.Christian)
· Hebrew Bible Bibliography (Mark A.Christian)
· Genesis Bibliography (Victor Matthews)
· Septuagint Studies Bibliography (Joel Kalvesmaki)
· Orion Dead Sea Scrolls Bibliography
· Ben-Sira Bibliography (Franz Böhmisch)
· The Josephus-Bibliography (Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum)
· Bibliography on the “Slavonic Josephus” (Andrei Orlov)
· Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (James R. Davila)
· Bibliography on Jewish Pseudepigrapha (Meir Bar-Illan)
· Bibliography on Jewish and Christian Pseudepigrapha (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (Andrei Orlov)
· Bibliography on the Book of Jubilees (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Abraham (Andrei Orlov)
· Bibliography on the Ladder of Jacob (Andrei Orlov)
· Bibliography on the Life of Adam and Eve (Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone)
· Bibliography on the Primary Adam Books (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve (Andrei Orlov)
· Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Adam (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Slavonic “Vision of Isaiah” (Andrei Orlov)
· Bibliography on the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch (Andrei Orlov)
· Bibliography on Joseph and Aseneth (Thomas Knittel)
· Joseph & Aseneth Bibliography (Mark Goodacre)
· Bibliography on the Assumption of Moses (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Testament of Abraham (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Testament of Adam (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on 4 Ezra (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Letter of Aristeas (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Elijah (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Apocalypse of Zephaniah (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on Pseudo-Philo (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on the Psalms of Solomon (Thomas Knittel)
· Bibliography on Sibylline Oracles (Thomas Knittel)
· Michael E. Stone’s Works on Jewish Pseudepigrapha
· The Enochic Library: Preliminary Bibliography (John C. Reeves)
· Bibliography on Jewish Sectarianism (Meir Bar Ilan)
· Jewish Magic Bibliography (Alex Jasen and Scott Noegel)
· Bibliography of Jewish Magic in Antiquity (Meir Bar Ilan)
· Magic Bibliographies and Resources (John-Gabriel Bodard)
· Magie dans l’antiquité gréco-romaine
· Bibliography on Jewish Astrology (Lester Ness)
· Bibliography on Jewish Prayer (Tzvee Zahavy)
· Select Bibliography on the Second Temple Synagogue (Donald D. Binfer)
· Bibliography on Jewish Temple Traditions (Rebecca Luft)
· Bibliography on Targumim (Alex Jassen and Joe Angel)
· Bibliography on Targumic and Cognate Studies
· Guide to the Midrashim (Michael E. Stone and K. William Whitney, Jr.)
· Bibliography for Research in Rabbinic Judaism (Eliezer Segal)
· Basic Bibliography of the Genizah Collection
· Bibliography on Hekhalot Literature (Meir Bar-Ilan)
· Hekhalot Literature in English (Don Karr) pdf
· Bibliography on Divine Mediators (James R. Davila)
· Peter Schäfer’s Works on Hekhalot Tradition (1970-1996)
· Metatron Bibliography (Meir Bar-Ilan)
· Sefer Yetzirah Bibliography (Scott J. Thompson)
· Bibliography on Medieval Jewish Mysticism (Journal des Études de la Cabale)
· Joseph Dan’s Works on Jewish Mysticism
· Selected Bibliography on Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism (Eliezer Segal)
· Bibliography on Monsters and Fabulous Creatures in Jewish Folklore (Meir Bar Ilan)
· Bibliography of Exorcism by Jews (Meir Bar Ilan)
· Bibliography of Khazar Studies (Kevin Alan Brook).
· Rambi: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
· Hebrew University Bibliographic Search
· Search the Jewish Theological Seminary Library
· BiBIL: Bibliographie biblique informatisée de Lausanne
· BILDI: Bibelwissenschaftliche Literaturdokumentation Innsbruck
· New Testament Mysticism Project Seminar
· THEOLDI: Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature (School of Theology at University of Innsbruck)
· Louis Ginzberg’s “The Legends of the Jews” On Line (Philologos).
· Bibliography of Byzantine Sources and Editions (Paul Halsall)
· Bibliography for Late Antiquity
· Bibliography on Eastern Orthodox Mysticism and Spirituality (Alexander Golitzin)
· Cursory Bibliography on Martyrdom (Alexander Golitzin)
· Bibliography on Anthony and the Desert Fathers (William Harmless)
· Bibliography on the Eucharist in the East (William Harmless)
· Bibliography on Christian Initiation (William Harmless) pdf
· Bibliography on Christian Mysticism and Spirituality (William Harmless)
· Bibliography on Early Egyptian Monasticism
· Bibliography on Spirituality in the Early Church (William Harmless)
· Bibliography on Gregory of Nyssa
· Bibliography on Evagrius of Pontus (Joel Kalvesmaki)
· Pubblicazioni recenti su Origene e la tradizione alessandrina
· Bibliografia sull’esicasmo e la preghiera del cuore
· Bibliography on Gnosticism (Diotima)
· A Basic Reading List on Valentinianism
· Bibliographies for Theology (William Harmless)
· Database in Patristic (Université Laval. Québec)
· Bibliography on the Syrian Orthodox Tradition
· Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
· Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
· Gnomon Online – Bibliographische Datebank
· TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents for Classics-Related Journals
· Bibliotheca Classica Selecta
· Hagiography Database (The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)
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