The Study of Heikhalot Literature: Between Mystical Experience and Textual Artifact
Currents in Biblical Research October 1, 2007 Ra'Anan S. Boustan
This essay outlines the fundamental methodological and empirical advances that the study of Heikhalot literature has experienced during the past 25 years with the aim of encouraging specialists and enabling non-specialists to approach this complex material with greater precision and sophistication. The field of early Jewish mysticism has been profoundly shaped by the increasing integration in...