Tuesday, November 16, 2010

How Similar is a Visionary Shaman to an Apocalyptic Prophet?

LOREN ROSSON: How Similar is a Visionary Shaman to an Apocalyptic Prophet?

I've treated some similar themes here.

UPDATE (17 November): More directly relevant is my 2006 SBL paper "The Hekhalot Literature and the Ancient Jewish Apocalypses," which you can download here.