Statement

Priests may also have produced Hekhalot literature, an offshoot of apocalyptic, whose descriptions of the heavens and angelic worship are modeled on the Temple cult ('hekhalot' are the chambers of this heavenly Temple).

References

1. p. 135

   supports · boxed feature · ch. 5

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: What Became of the Priests After the Temple's Destruction?

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