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Article: Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

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APRIL D. DECONICK (ed.), Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism (SBLSS 11; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006). Pp. xxiii + 455. Paper $49.95.

This volume's eighteen essays represent ten years of study of formative mystical and apocalyptic texts by the SBL Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group. In the introductory essay, "What Is Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism?" (pp. 1-24), April D. DeConick states, "Since Judaism and Christianity are companion expressions of Second Temple Judaism . . . the mystical tradition preserved in their literature is rightly characterized as manifestations of Jewish and Christian religiosity in the late Hellenistic and ...

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