Paradise Revisited (2 Cor 12:1-12): The Jewish Mystical Background of Paul's Apostolate

Harvard Theological Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 177-217

  Morray Jones, C R A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 84976097240     PISSN: 00178160     EISSN: 14754517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000031151     Document Type: Article

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2. idem, “From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi,” JBL 95 (1976) 529–58.
3. reprinted in idem, Jewish and Pauline Studies (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984) 257-77.
4. John W. Bowker, “‘Merkabah’ Visions and the Visions of Paul,” JSS 16 (1971) 157-73.
5. Christopher Rowland, “The Influence of the First Chapter of Ezekiel on Jewish and Early Christian Literature” (Ph.D. diss., Cambridge University, 1974) esp. 239-98.
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10. reprinted in J. Philip Hyatt, ed., The Bible in Modern Scholarship (Nashville/New York: Abingdon, 1965) 252–71.
11. Gilles Quispel, Gnostic Studies (2 vols.; Istanbul: Netherlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Institut in het Nubije Osten, 1974–75) 1. 196-212.
12. idem, “The Origins of the Gnostic Demiurge,” in P. Granfield and J. A. Jungmann, eds., Kyriakon: Festschrift Johannes Quasten (Munster: Aschendorff, 1970) 271–76.
13. idem, “Ezekiel 1:26 in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosis,” VC 34 (1980) 1-13;
14. idem, “Judaism, Judaic Christianity and Gnosis,” in A. H. B. Logan and A. J. M. Wedderburn, eds., The New Testament and Gnosis: Essays in Honour of Robert McL. Wilson (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1983) 46-68;
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19. Those who interpret the story thus include Heinrich Hirsch Gratz, Gnosticismus und Judenthum (Krotoschin: Monasch, 1846) 56 - 101.
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24. Andre Neher, “Le voyage mystique des quatre,” RHR 140 (1951) 59–82.