The Three Temples

In this ground-breaking study,Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the earlystages of the mystical tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancientscrolls and manuscripts published in the last few decades. Her wide-rangingresearch, scrupulously documented, enables her to demonstrate an uninterruptedline linking the priestly traditions of the Temple, the mystical liturgicalliterature found in the Qumran caves and associated directly and indirectlywith the Merkava