Editors' Preface; Foreword; On Transliterations and Abbreviations; PART I THINGS INTO WHICH ANGELS LONG TO LOOK: APPROACHING MYSTICISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE JEWISH APOCALYPSES by Christopher Rowland; Chapter One Mysticism and New Testament; Chapter Two Apocalypticism: the Disclosure of Heavenly K nowledge; Chapter Three Enoch in Jewish and Early Christian Tradition; Chapter Four Revelation and the Apocalyptic Visions of God; Chapter Five The Mystical Element in the Gospels and Acts; Chapter Six Paul and the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ
Summary
This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate the New Testament. The first part explores the importance of apocalypticism across the whole of the New Testament, and the second part the relevance of Jewish mystical to the New Testament
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-645) and indexes
