Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-645) and indexes.
Contents
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.