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MYSTICSIM OF YESHUA
HANDOUTS AND AUDIO LINKS
Session 2, October 2017
Links to Audio Recordings:
Friday Evening:
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1-.mp3 (110 min)
Saturday:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/27224539/mysticism-oct-17-sess-
2.mp3 (120 min)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/27230744/mysticism-oct-17-sess-
3.mp3 (43 min)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/27233347/mysticism-oct-17-sess-
4.mp3 (65 min)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/27234239/mysticism-oc-17-sess-
5.mp3 (55 min)
Recommended Articles:
“Where Shall Wisdom be Found? (Job 28.12”) Margaret Barker, 2001.
“Restoring Solomon’s Temple”, Margaret Barker, 2012
“Wisdom and the Stewardship of Knowledge”, Margaret Barker: Bishop’s Lecture Lincoln
Cathedral, March 2004
PART I – FRIDAY EVENING
Views of Israel, north to south and south to north.
Nazareth
Sepphoris
Jordan River
Judean Wilderness
Mount Tabor
Prof Margaret Barker
Galillee at the Time of Jesus
PART II – SATURDAY MORNING
Musterion
Yeshua’s First Temple Mysticism
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.
4000-3000 BCE the beginnings of ancient civilizations that we know of today.
Neolithic Period (4500-3200 BCE)
3500 BCE - First Settlement of Jerusalem
C (First green oval)
Early Bronze Age (3200-2220 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 (2220-1550 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 (1550-1200 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 (1200-1000 BCE)
1250 - Joshua and the Conquest of Palestine
1150-1025 BCE - The Era of the Judges in Palestine
1200 BCE - Jerusalem is conquered by Canaanites (Jebusites)
1080-1012 BCE - The first King of the Nation – Saul (1050-1012)
Iron Age II (1000-529 BCE)
1000-586 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. 12:2-27
930 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 22-23 and II Chronicles 34-35 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
790-586 BCE - Pre-exilic Prophets: Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah
550-530 BCE - Exilic Prophets: Joel, Ezekiel,
520-160 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.
H, I and J (Red arrow, the larger green oval and the large blue diamond)
Persian Period (539-322 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.
445-425 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 (332-141 BCE)
332 BCE - Alexander the Great conquers Judea and Jerusalem and desecrates the
Temple.
332-141 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:
800–500 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
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. 0–200 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 (141-37 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 (70 - 324 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 (600 - 1900 CE)
691 CE - Dome of the Rock Mosque
--Compiled by L. Bauman 2017
Many dates are approximate
or perhaps even unknown
Timeline of the Hebrew people in the context of history and temple chronology
PART III – SATURDAY PM
Temples and pyramids of the ancient world
Solomon’s Temple
Solomon’s temple overlaid on human body
Solomon’s Temple
Herod’s Temple
Remains of the Temple (The Wailing Wall)
The Golden Cube “series”