Del miqdaš ‘adam de Qumran al templo de luz ismailí (haykal nurani)

Laura Navajas Espinal

doi:10.5209/ILUR.53849

From the Qumran miqdaš ‘adam to the ismaili temple of light (haykal nurani)

Laura Navajas Espinal Investigadora independiente (España).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ILUR.53849

Keywords: Qumran, Ismailism, Judaism, Temple, Mysticism, Gnosis.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the Qumran conception of temple (eschatological temple and miqdaš ’adam) as an intermediate stage between the understanding of temple in Jewish eschatology and the Ismaili innerness of the “temple of light.” All of it in the frame of the conception of temple as Garden of Eden based in the “alternative memory”2 yielded by parabiblical priestly traditions.

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Navajas Espinal L. (2016). From the Qumran miqdaš ‘adam to the ismaili temple of light (haykal nurani). ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 21, 129-147. https://doi.org/10.5209/ILUR.53849

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