TY - BOOK AU - Dobroruka,Vicente TI - Second Temple Pseudepigraphy: a Cross-cultural Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish Literature T2 - Ekstasis : religious experience from antiquity to the Middle Ages SN - 3110333783 AV - BS1700 U1 - 229.9 PY - 2014/// KW - Bibel KW - Altes Testament KW - gnd KW - Apokryphen KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - History and criticism KW - Rabbinical literature KW - Judaism KW - History KW - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D KW - Jews KW - 586 B.C.-70 A.D KW - Littérature apocalyptique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature rabbinique KW - Judaïsme KW - Histoire KW - 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique) KW - Juifs KW - 586 av. J.-C.-70 KW - RELIGION KW - Biblical Studies KW - Bible Study Guides KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Post-exilic period (Judaism) KW - Automatisches Schreiben KW - Frühjudentum KW - Rabbinische Literatur KW - Altered states of consciousness KW - Jewish Apocalyptic literature KW - Pseudepigraphy KW - Second Temple Judaism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Why a cross-cultural approach is needed in order to try a different understanding of Second Temple pseudepigraphy; 1 Introductory remarks; 2 Nature and purpose of cross-cultural studies in Biblical scholarship; 3 Terminology and definitions; 3.1 Altered states of consciousness; 3.2 Ecstasy; 3.3 Possession; 3.4 Automatisms; 3.5 Hypnosis; 4 Automatic writing and ecstatic practices in recent scholarship; 5 The meaning of pseudepigraphy; 6 Outline of scholarship about late Second Temple apocalyptic pseudepigraphy; 6.1 The concept of corporate identity as applied to apocalyptic pseudepigraphy6.2 Recent discussions on apocalyptic pseudepigraphy regarding identification with alleged author; Chapter 2 -- How much is automatic writing useful as a hermeneutic tool?; 1 Automatic writing as hypnotic phenomenon; 1.1 Non-mystical automatic writing; 1.2 Writings in other languages; 2 Multiple-personality phenomena and automatic writing; 3 Automatic writing as possession; 4 Past-lives therapy, hypnosis and identity with past characters; 5 Summary; Chapter 3 -- Automatic writing in modern-day Kardecism; 1 Introductory remarks to the chapter2 Brief introduction to the development of Brazilian Kardecism; 2.1 A survey of Kardecist doctrine; 2.2 Kardecism in Brazil; 3 Kardecist preparatory processes for automatic writing; 3.1 Automatic writing and mediumship training; 3.2 Preparation and meaning of automatic writing in Brazilian Kardecism; 3.3 Genre and personal identity of the spiritual author; 4 Editorial mediation of psychography; 5 Two modern-day Kardecist apocalypses, and how their alleged authors are portrayed; 6 Summary; Chapter 4 -- Automatic writing in Antiquity regarding religious texts; 1 Introductory remarks to the chapter2 Survey of chosen passages; 2.1 Full description of the narrator's identity; 2.2 Other descriptions of the narrator's identity; 2.3 Passages with smaller number of indications; 3 Authorship of apocalyptic texts and divine manifestations; 3.1 Brief discussion; 3.2 Divine interference manifest in the texts; 4 Possible evidence for automatic writing in three specific ancient cases; 4.1 Writings from a deceased prophet via human hands: the case of 2Chr 21; 4.2 Texts handed down directly from above: the Book of Elchasai; 4.3 Fraud and satire: written instructions for the Greek credulous5 Summary; Chapter 5 -- Philo, Josephus and 4Ezra: the main testimonies for inspired writing during the Second Temple Period; 1 Introductory remarks to the chapter; 2 Survey of chosen passages; 2.1 Philo of Alexandria; 2.2 Josephus; 2.3 4Ezra; 3 Issues at stake in cross-cultural comparison regarding the three authors; 3.1 Knowledge and scholarship as essential issues; 3.2 More sophisticated devices in terms of preparation versus rationalizing; 4 Summary; Chapter 6 -- Considerations on religious pseudepigraphy in Antiquity N2 - At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed. This book is not the definitive answer to that problem but it proposes different paths - or better still, a two-fold path: on one hand to understand Second Temple pseudepigraphy as a mystical experience and on the other, for lack of a suitable ancient example, to compare it to modern-day automatic writing UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=674416 ER -