How Ancient Apocalyptic Jewish Ascent Esotericism Laid the Foundations of Christianity
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 86% confidenceDr. Justin Sledge (PhD in philosophy, specialist in Western esotericism and Jewish mysticism) connects texts like 1 Enoch and Daniel to Paul and early Christian thought, at a graduate-seminar level.
What you'll learn
How Jewish apocalyptic and heavenly-ascent literature shaped earliest Christianity.
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Part of Jewish Magic and Occultism, Gnosticism, Magic and Esotericism in the Ancient Near East
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