MYSTICSIM OF YESHUA HANDOUTS AND AUDIO LINKS. Session 2, October 2017

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1 MYSTICSIM OF YESHUA HANDOUTS AND AUDIO LINKS Session 2, October 2017 Links to Audio Recordings: Friday Evening: 1-.mp3 (110 min) Saturday: 2.mp3 (120 min) 3.mp3 (43 min) 4.mp3 (65 min) 5.mp3 (55 min) Recommended Articles: Where Shall Wisdom be Found? (Job ) Margaret Barker, Restoring Solomon s Temple, Margaret Barker, 2012 Wisdom and the Stewardship of Knowledge, Margaret Barker: Bishop s Lecture Lincoln Cathedral, March 2004

2 PART I FRIDAY EVENING

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8 Views of Israel, north to south and south to north.

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16 Prof Margaret Barker Galillee at the Time of Jesus

17 PART II SATURDAY MORNING Musterion

18 Yeshua s First Temple Mysticism

19 HISTORICAL TIMELINE of Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Jewish People in the Context of World History A & B (Black Arrow and large purple oval) Kurgan Culture and Warrior Society 14,000 BCE - The Rise of Warrior Societies and Culture against Egalitarian and Agrarian societies. A theory proposed by Marija Gimbutas and described in The Chalice and the Blade by Raine Eisler. 10,000 to 5,500 BCE -- Warrior and Tribal Societies Rise of Early Civilizations -- Egyptian, Sumerian, Mohenjo--daro in India, and many others around the world BCE the beginnings of ancient civilizations that we know of today. Neolithic Period ( BCE) 3500 BCE - First Settlement of Jerusalem C (First green oval) Early Bronze Age ( BCE) 2500 BCE - First Houses Built in Area 2000 BCE - Abraham and Sarah and the line of the later Patriarchs and Matriarchs: Beginning of the children and tribes of Abraham and Sarah and their remembered early history and ancestors. D (Red Arrow) Middle Bronze Age ( BCE) 1800 BCE - Construction of First City Wall around Jerusalem 1700 BCE The Hebrews (children of Abraham and Sarah) enter slavery in Egypt Late Bronze Age ( BCE) 1400 BCE - First Mention of Jerusalem in Cuneiform Amarna Letters 1300 BCE - Moses and the Exodus -- Tabernacle in the wilderness and giving of the Law Iron Age I ( BCE) Joshua and the Conquest of Palestine BCE - The Era of the Judges in Palestine 1200 BCE - Jerusalem is conquered by Canaanites (Jebusites) BCE - The first King of the Nation Saul ( )

20 Iron Age II ( BCE) BCE - Israel a Nation on the International Stage 1000 BCE - King David Conquers Jerusalem; Declares City Capital of Jewish State E (Blue diamond) 960 BCE - David's Son, King Solomon, Builds First Jewish Temple Deut. 12: BCE - Shoshenq of Egypt sacks Jerusalem 835 BCE - King Jehoshapat restores the Temple and Jerusalem 721 BCE - Assyrians Conquer Samaria; Refugees Flee to Jerusalem and City Expands onto Western Hill 701 BCE - Assyrian ruler Sennacherib lays siege to Jerusalem F (Red Arrow) King Josiah Repairs and Renovates the Temple (641 BCE) II Kings and II Chronicles describes the changes Destroys all other altars, high places, and graves desecrated Expels and removes all other priests Centralizes worship in Jerusalem Removal of ancient objects from the Temple War against visionary seeing Scribes begin changes to the biblical text Full implementation of the Law. 586 BCE - Babylonian Forces Destroy Jerusalem and Demolish First Temple The Hebrew People are in Exile G (Yellow Arrow) THE AXIAL AGE -- A major shift in religious viewpoint that change conventional religion to Enlightenment Religion appearing in different cultures from the 8th to the 3rd Century before the Common Era. The Rise of the Prophetic and Sapiential Traditions within Hebrew Tradition BCE - Pre-exilic Prophets: Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah BCE - Exilic Prophets: Joel, Ezekiel, BCE - Post exiled Prophets: The Wisdom Tradition of Israel The inspiration and source of Wisdom is said to be Solomon Multiple streams from ancient wisdom traditions are a part of early Hebrew culture: Egyptian, Babylonian, Phoenician, and Persian. Later the Greek streams of wisdom are added to these within later Jewish culture, influencing its literature.

21 H, I and J (Red arrow, the larger green oval and the large blue diamond) Persian Period ( BCE) 539 BCE - Persian Ruler Cyrus the Great Conquers Babylonian Empire, including Jerusalem. He also extracts many of the Jewish people from Babylon, taking them into Persia. 516 BCE - Cyrus Permits Jews in Babylonian Exile to Return to Jerusalem and the Second Temple is built. They return from Exile with new ideas and forms that have been created through their many experiences in Babylon and Persia, for example synagogue worship, a theology of angels, and the beginnings of commentary on the Torah called the Talmud BCE - Nehemiah the Prophet Rebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem; City is confined to Eastern Hill The Hebrew people are restored back into a Nation State The Second Temple was said to lack the following holy articles: 1. The Ark of the Covenant: containing the Tablets of Stone, before which were placed the pot of manna and Aaron's rod 2. The Urim and Thummim: (divination objects contained in the Hoshen) 3. The holy oil 4. The sacred fire 5. In the Second Temple, the Kodesh Hakodashim (Holy of Holies) was separated by curtains rather than a wall as in the First Temple. Still, as in the Tabernacle, the Second Temple included: 1. The Menorah (golden lamp) for the Hekhal 2. The Table of Showbread 3. The golden altar of incense, with golden censers 4. According to the Mishnah (Middot iii. 6), the "Foundation Stone" stood where the Ark used to be, and the High Priest put his censer on it on Yom Kippur K (Red Arrow) Hellenistic Period ( BCE) 332 BCE - Alexander the Great conquers Judea and Jerusalem and desecrates the Temple BCE - Ptolemaic and Seleucid Rule in Jerusalem L (Yellow oval) Early Jewish Mystical Traditions Scholars sometimes distinguish four periods in early Jewish mysticism, developing from Isaiah's and Ezekiel's visions of the Throne/Chariot, to later extant merkabah mysticism texts: BCE, mystical elements in Prophetic Judaism such as Ezekiel's chariot Beginning c. 530s BCE. Merkavah/Merkabah mysticism (or Chariot mysticism) as a school of Jewish spirituality, beginning 100 BCE and centered on visions of mystical ascent such as

22 those found in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 1, or the hekhalot ("palaces") literature to the heavenly palaces and the Throne of God by great seers. Early Rabbinic merkabah mysticism referred to briefly in exoteric Rabbinic literature such as the Pardesh ascent which appears also to be related to early Christian mysticism c CE. Apocalyptic and Enochian Literature and Tradition: Apocalyptic literature and mysticism beginning perhaps in the Exile with the Mazdean (Zoroastrian contact) but intensifying c. 100 BCE, especially 0-130s CE and after the fall of Jerusalem. Hasmonean Period ( BCE) 141 BCE - Hasmonean Dynasty Begins; Jerusalem Again Expands Limits to Western Hill 63 BCE - Roman General Pompey captures Jerusalem M (The red heart and the blue diamond) Herodian Period (37 BCE - 70 CE) 37 BCE - King Herod Restructures Second Temple, Adds Retaining Walls 6 BCE 33 CE - Jesus of Nazareth Yeshua s teachings are a form of Interiorized Judaism that centers on the Kardial dimension. The various previous streams are personally integrated into his sapiential and mystery teachings based in what seems to be his mystical impluse based on the first Temple. 33 CE - Jesus Crucified by Romans in Jerusalem 20 BCE - 50 CE - Philo of Alexandria N (Red arrow) Roman Period ( CE) 70 CE - Roman Forces Destroy Jerusalem and Demolish Second Temple The final diaspora of the Jewish peoples. 92 CE - Jamnia and the formation of the new Hebrew Bible 135 CE - Jerusalem Rebuilt as a Roman City 383 CE - Canon of Christian Scriptures in the West Islamic Period ( CE) 691 CE - Dome of the Rock Mosque --Compiled by L. Bauman 2017 Many dates are approximate or perhaps even unknown

23 Timeline of the Hebrew people in the context of history and temple chronology

24 PART III SATURDAY PM Temples and pyramids of the ancient world

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31 Solomon s Temple Herod s Temple

32 Remains of the Temple (The Wailing Wall)

33 The Golden Cube series

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