“They Revealed Secrets to Their Wives”: The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Rachel Elior – An Appreciation from her Colleagues and Students 1
4. The Consideration of Religious Experience in the Work of Rachel Elior 6
5. I. Exegesis
6. Peter and the Patriarch: A Confluence of Traditions? 13
7. In Heaven or on Earth: A Misplaced Temple Question about Ezekiel’s Visions 28
8. Scriptural Exegesis in the Treatise of the Vessels, A Legendary Account of the Hiding of the Temple Treasures 45
9. Cultivating Visions through Exegetical Meditations 62
10. “Serpentine” Eve in Syriac Christian Literature of Late Antiquity 92
11. From “Pre-Emptive Exegesis” to “Pre-Emptive Speculation”? Ma‘aseh Bereshit in Genesis Rabbah and Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer 115
12. Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem in Philo and Paul: A Tale of Two Cities 133
13. II. Ritual
14. The Book of Watchers and the Cycle of New Year Festivals 159
15. A Different Spirituality or “Other” Agents?: On the Study of Magic in Rabbinic Literature 169
16. “They Revealed Secrets to Their Wives”: The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch 196
17. The Impurity of Oil and Spit amongthe Qumran Sectarians 223
18. “The Likeness of Heaven”: The Kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham 232
19. Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer? 254
20. III. Transformation
21. “A Chariot of Light Borne by Four Bright Eagles”: Eve’s Vision of the Chariot in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve 267
22. “Messianic Movements in the Period of the Crusades” 285
23. Jesus Revealed: The Dynamics of Early Christian Mysticism 299
24. Aseneth: Ascetical Practice, Vision and Transformation 325
25. “You Are Gods”: Multiple Divine Beings in Late Antique Jewish Theology 349
26. Transcribing Experience 365
27. Backmatter 383