Merkabah

Proper noun

Meaning

Merkabah

(religion) A school of early Jewish mysticism, circa 100 BCE – 1000 CE, based around visions.

Examples

According to Timo Eskola, early Christian theology and discourse was influenced by the Jewish Merkabah tradition. Source: Internet

Similarly, Alan Segal and Daniel Boyarin regard Paul's accounts of his conversion experience and his ascent to the heavens as the earliest first person accounts we have of a Merkabah mystic in Jewish or Christian literature. Source: Internet

Daniel Boyarin notes that Paul's own account of this experience would therefore be the earliest first person account of the mystical vision of a Merkabah adept. Source: Internet

Merkabah mysticism alluded to the encrypted knowledge within the book of the prophet Ezekiel describing his vision of the "Divine Chariot". Source: Internet

They are based on the first sections of Genesis and Ezekiel, for which there are in Jewish speculation two well-established and therefore old terms: "Ma'aseh Bereshit" and "Ma'aseh Merkabah." Source: Internet

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