We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Glorious spirit, wondrous likeness, most holy spirit … [to]ngue of blessing … and the likeness of living godlike beings is engraved in the vestibules where the King enters, figures of luminous spirit, [] figures of glorious light […], figures of living godlike beings [in the] glorious shrines, the structure of the most holy sanctuary in the shrines of the Kings, figures of the godlike beings … and from the likeness of holiest holiness.
THE literature of the secessionist priesthood attaches paramount importance to Shavuot (the Festival of Weeks/Oaths), understood both as the time the Covenant was concluded with the patriarchs and as a celebration of the renewal of the oath and the acceptance of the Covenant, emulating the angels who celebrate the festival in heaven as a testimony to the tradition of covenants and oaths. In addition, the festival is also a sacred, basic model for the seven-week harvest and crop cycles and the pentecostal pilgrimage axis of the solar calendar observed in the Temple in the first seven months of each year. The priestly courses entrusted with its safekeeping, each serving out its appointed week, celebrated the appointed times (festivals) once every seven weeks from the first month to the seventh month, adhering to the continuous sevenfold cultic and liturgical calendar. The crucial significance of the festival is obvious in light of the great number of times the third month and the festival itself, which symbolize the continuity and renewal of the Covenant, are referred to in Jubilees, in different contexts—Covenant, cult, angels, and oaths. Further evidence is provided by the Community Rule and the Damascus Document, in their accounts of the acceptance of the Covenant and the accompanying pronouncement of blessings upon the adherents of the solar calendar and the heavenly tablets, curses being heaped upon those who dare to violate them.
However, there are two further contexts with which Shavuot is implicitly associated; one assumes significance in relation to the biblical past and the origins of mystical tradition, the other—in relation to the later mythical mystical tradition.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
