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Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah

Two Powers in Heaven

Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism

by Alan F. Segal

Segal gathers the rabbinic passages that condemn belief in 'two powers in heaven' and reconstructs the Jewish, Christian and Gnostic ideas they targeted. The study is essential background for the figure of Metatron and the story of Elisha ben Abuyah's heresy.

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