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Hekhalot literature
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The Hekhalot literature (sometimestransliteratedHeichalot) fromthe Hebrew word for "Palaces", relatingto visions of
ascents into heavenly palaces. The genre overlaps with Merkabah or "Chariot" literature, concerning Ezekiel's chariot, so the
two are sometimesreferredto together as "Books of the Palaces and the Chariot" ( !"#$% !"&'()) )*'#+)" ). The Hekhalot
literatureis a genre of Jewish esoteric and revelatorytexts produced some time between late antiquity some believe from
Talmudic times or earlier to the early Middle Ages.
Many motifs of later Kabbalah are based on the Hekhalot texts, and the Hekhalot literatureitself is based upon earlier sources,
including traditionsabout heavenly ascents of Enoch found among the Dead Sea scrolls and the Hebrew Bible pseudepigrapha.
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Contents
1 Texts
2 Dating and
genre
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Texts
Some of the Heichalot texts are:
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Hekhalot Zutartey ("The Lesser Palaces"), which details an ascent of Rabbi Akiva;
Hekhalot Rabbati ("The Greater Palaces"), or Pirkei Hekhalot, which details an ascent of Rabbi Ishmael;
Maaseh Merkabah ("Account of the Chariot"), a collectionof hymns recited by the "descenders" and heard during their
ascent;
Merkhavah Rabbat ("The great Chariot"):
Sepher Hekhalot ("Book of Palaces," also known as 3 Enoch)
Other similartexts are:
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Re'uyyot Yehezqel ("The Visions of Ezekiel")
Masekhet Hekhalot ("The Tractate of the Palaces")
Shi'ur Qomah ("Divine Dimensions")
Sepher Ha-Razim ("Book of the Mysteries")
Harba de Moshe ("The Sword of Moses")
Alphabet of Akiba ben Joseph
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Dating and genre
The Hekhalot literatureis post-rabbinical, and not a literatureof the rabbis, but since it seeks to stand in continuitywith the
Rabbinic literatureoften pseudepigraphical.
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See also
Merkabah mysticism
Smaller Midrashim
Seven Heavens
Kabbalah: Primary texts
References
1. ^ Scholem, Gershom, Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and the Talmudic Tradition, 1965.
2. ^ Schfer, Peter (1992). The hidden and manifest God: some major themes in early Jewish mysticism(http://books.google.com/books?
id=hz06KXyyqEcC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false). p. 7. ISBN 9780791410448.
3. ^ Don Karr. "Notes on the Study of Merkabah Mysticism and Hekhalot Literature in English" (http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/
karr/mmhie.pdf). Retrieved 21 December 2010.
4. ^ Judaism in late antiquity: Volume 1 - Page 36 Jacob Neusner, Alan Jeffery Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton - 2001 "The Hekhalot
literature is "not a literature of the rabbis, yet it seeks to stand in continuity with the Rabbinic literature" (p. 293); this literature is
deeply pseudepigraphical and as such post-rabbinical."
External links
The Zoharic Seven Heavens (http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/zdm/zdm027.htm#fr_4)
The Heichalot & the Merkavah (http://www.tabick.abel.co.uk/heichalot.html), (The Palaces & The Chariot)
Notes on the Study of Merkabah Mysticismand Hekhalot Literaturein English (http://www.digital-brilliance.com/
contributed/Karr/Biblios/mmhie.pdf)
English translationof the Hekhalot Rabbati (http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/HekRab/index.php)
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