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Review of Books / Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011) 375-440 429 The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament. By Christopher Rowland and Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones. Edited by Pieter Willem van der Horst and Peter J. Tomson. (Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testa- mentum. Section III. Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature 12). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xxviii, 690. Hardback. €184.00 / US$ 272.00. ISBN 978-90-04-17532-7. In this mammoth of a book, two scholars of the Jewish background of early Chris- tianity have joined forces to offer a systematic study of the complex relationship between Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, as well as of the Nachleben of this relationship in different, but connected phenomena in both late antique Juda- ism and Christianity. Rowland is a leading New Testament scholar interested in Jewish apocalyptic literature and its Christian offspring while Morray-Jones, who has authored some important and insightful articles on central aspects of what we usually call early Jewish mysticism, was Rowland’s pupil at Oxford. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is penned by Rowland, while the other two are written by Morray-Jones. Part I deals with
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