A. Golitzin

Abstract: "Recovering the Glory of Adam: Selected Themes from the Dead Sea Scrolls Present in the Macarian Homilies and Other Christian Ascetic Writings of Fourth-Century Syro-Mesopotamia"

Alexander Golitzin

Here are some of the themes I had in mind, in no particular order:

1. Angels and humans
a. concelebration with the angelic liturgy
b. isangelic status
c. angelic priesthood
d. the trees of Paradise
2. Temple on earth/Temple in heaven
3. The "glory of Adam"
a. crowns and robes of glory
b. light and the vision of light (Kavod, "streams of light", merkavah)
c. knowledge of the "secrets/mysteries of heaven"
4. Sacred "singleness"
a. purity
b. holy war

(c) 2001
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