The Tongues of Angels

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The Concept of Angelic Languages in Classical Jewish and Christian Texts

John C. Poirier(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im August 2010

XI, 224 Seiten

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Cover
Dedication
Preface
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
A. Purpose and Organization of this Study
B. Methodological Preface
1. Should Pseudepigrapha be Presumed Jewish or Christian?
2 Rabbinic Writings as Historiography
C. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Hebrew as the Language of the Angel
A. Jubilees (and 4Q464)
B. R. Yochanan's Dictum: "The Ministering Angels do not Understand Aramaic" (b. Sot.ah 33a b. Sabb. 12b)
C. Christian Writings
1. The Vision of Paul
2. The Coptic Wizard's Hoard
D. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Hebrew-speaking Angels and Linguistic Ideology in Tannaitic Tradition
A. The Hebraic Setting of Rabbinic Piety
B. The Proscription of Extra-Synagogal Prayer
C. The Empowerment of the Hebraeophone Literati
D. Conclusion
Chapter 4. The Esoteric Heavenly Language: Fairly Certain Cases
A. New Testament (1 Cor 13.1)
B. New Testament Continued (2 Cor 12.1-7)
C. The Testament of Job
D. The Apocalypse of Zephaniah
E. The Ascension of Isaiah
F. The Apocalypse of Abraham
G. The Rabbinic Evidence (Gen. Rab. 74.7)
H. Ephrem Syrus, Hymn 11
I. The Book of the Resurrection (attributed to Bartholomew the Apostle)
J. Conclusion
Chapter 5. The Esoteric Heavenly Language Continued: Less Certain Cases
A. The Qumran Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
B. The Rabbinic Evidence Continued (b. B. Bat. 134a || b. Sukkah 28a)
C. The Nanas Inscription
D. The Liturgical Jubilus
E. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Two Additional Solutions for "the Speech of Palm Trees" (b. B. Bat. 134a || b. Sukkah 28a)
A. The Palmgeister in T.-S. K 1.56 and 1.147
B. Palm Trees as Neoplatonic Heliotropes
Appendix 2. A Partial Response to Christopher Forbes on the Nature of New Testament Glossolalia
Bibliography
A. Primary Literature
B. Secondary Literature
Index of Ancient Sources
A. Hebrew Scriptures and Septuagint
B. New Testament
C. Josephus
D. Philo
E. Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphic Sources
F. Dead Sea Scrolls
G. Rabbinic Sources
H. Magical Texts and Hekhalot
I. Patristic Sources
J. Greco-Roman Sources
K. Other
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects

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