Trocas de vestes e transformações

descrições análogas ao perispírito na literatura não canônica do judaísmo antigo

Abstract

The article seeks to highlight the presence of concepts analogous to the perispirit, as described in the writings of Allan Kardec, in texts from Jewish antiquity, particularly non-biblical ones. Among Jewish pseudepigraphal and apocryphal texts, particularly the apocalyptic ones, we find descriptions of celestial journeys, whose characters have their bodies transformed, generally similar to a change of clothes. In this process, some characteristics find analogy with spiritist descriptions of the perispirit and its properties. Analyzing excerpts from the works 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, Apocalypse of Zephaniah and Ascension of Isaiah, and recognizing linguistic and cultural barriers that separate the two religious traditions in question, we conclude that there are close understandings.