Outline of the Neo-Hebraic Apocalyptic Literature

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Página 21 - ... share." Again Moses looked, and he beheld a spring of living water welling up from under the tree of life and dividing into four streams, which passed under the throne of glory, and thence encompassed Paradise from end to end. He also saw four rivers flowing under each of the thrones of the pious, one of honey, the second of milk, the third of wine, and the fourth of pure balsam.
Página 7 - The darker the present grew . . . the more eagerly did their minds turn to the comfort offered by apocalyptic promises, which predicted the end of their suffering and the dawn of their delivery.
Página 26 - ... Messianic calculations centering in this period, see pp. 65 and 75. 7. The Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba. The Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba in the Almanzi library,36 which is in fragmentary form, is a treatise on the mystical significance of the Hebrew letters and contains a clear Messianic calculation. "Eight hundred years after the destruction of the second Temple the Kedarenes will decrease in number ... at the end of 295 years, according to the calendar of the Gentiles (dating from the Hegira — 622...
Página 25 - Talmud (Shabbat 1043) all sorts of similar interpretations are given in regard to the names, forms, and combinations of the various letters, and are made to bear upon eschatological questions in the same way as in this group of writings.
Página 20 - ... the clouds, the winds, and the rain ; in the third, the angels placed over vegetation; in the fourth, those over the earth, sun, moon, stars, planets, and spheres; in the fifth, "angels half of fire and half of snow...
Página 3 - Israel alone ; for the heathen world, on the contrary, damnation.* In like manner, the gross sensuousness in the detailed description of the joys of the Messianic and supramundane world is quite common in the older apocalyptic...
Página 20 - God's command, the angel Gabriel conducts him to hell. There he sees the manifold torments and punishments of the different classes of sinners : those who were envious of their...
Página 17 - And Yhwh will become king over all the earth; on that day Yhwh will be one and his name one.
Página 20 - Hagiga, f. 12*. •j132 (579) 27. And after that Moses saw an angel in the heaven called Araboth, ie the seventh heaven, and this angel was teaching the souls which were created by God at the time of the Creation and have been placed in paradise. The name of the angel was X. He teaches them in seventy languages in the college on high, and they answer : " Thus is the law of Moses given by tradition from Mount Sinai [as it is said Dina was set and the books were opened (Daniel vii. 10), and Dina is...

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