Mistisisme Merkabah
Mistisisme Merkabah/Merkavah(ataumistisisme kereta perang) adalah sebuah aliranmistisisme Yahudiawal, dari sekitar 100 SM sampai 1000 M, yang terpusat pada penglihatan-penglihatan seperti cerita yang ditemukan dalamKitab Yehezkielpasal 1, atau dalam sastrahekhalot( "istana-istana" ), mengenai kisah kenaikan ke istana-istana surgawi danTahta Allah.Korpus utama dari sastra Merkabah dikomposisikan pada 200-700 M, meskipun rujukan-rujukan terhadap tradisi kereta perang pada masa berikutnya juga ditemukan dalam sastraChassidei Ashkenazpada Abad Pertengahan.[1]Teks utama dalam tradisi tersebut adalahMaaseh Merkabah(Karya-karya Kereta Perang).[2]
Referensi
[sunting|sunting sumber]- ^From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic... – Page 224, Andrei A. Orlov (2007). "However, as Gruenwald notes, the main corpus of the Merkabah literature was composed in Israel in the period 200–700CE. Some references to this tradition can be found also in the literature of German Hasidim (twelfth to thirteenth"
- ^Neusner on Judaism: Literature – Page 74, Jacob Neusner (2005). "When Eleazar finished the Works of the Chariot, Yohanan stood and kissed him on his head and said, Blessed is the Lord, God of Abraham. Jacob who gave to Abraham a son wise and knowing how to expound the glory of our father in heaven."
Sumber
[sunting|sunting sumber]Artikel ini memadukan teks dariJewish Encyclopedia1901–1906, sebuah terbitan yang kini berada diranah publik.
- Scholem, Gershom G.Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition
- Dennis, Geoffrey.The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism(Llewellyn Worldwide, 2007)
- Dennis, Geoffrey, "Water as a Medium for Altered States of Consciousness in Early Jewish Mysticism,"Anthropology of ConsciousnessVol. 19, No. 1, (2008).
- Kohler, Kaufmann."Merkabah"atJewishEncyclopedia
- Jacobs, Joseph and A. BiramMa'aseh Bereshit; Ma'aseh Merkabahat JewishEncyclopedia
- Karr, Don.Notes on the Study of Merkabah Mysticism and Hekhalot Literature in English
- Scholem, Gershom.Origins of the Kabbalah,ISBN0-691-02047-7.
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