Selected studies in the Slavonic pseudepigrapha [electronic resource] / by Andrei A. Orlov.

ISBN:

9789004178793

9789047441144

9781282950764

Title:

Selected studies in the Slavonic pseudepigrapha [electronic resource] / by Andrei A. Orlov.

Author:

Orlov, Andrei A., 1960-

Personal Author:

Orlov, Andrei A., 1960-

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 440 pages).

Series:

Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha, v. 23

General Note:

Consists in part of previously published essays.

"This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shiur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism"--ECIP data view.

Contents:

Preface; Locations of the Original Publications; INTRODUCTION; The Jewish Pseudepigrapha in the Slavic Literary Environment; PART I STUDIES IN THE APOCALYPSE OF ABRAHAM; Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham; The Pteromorphic Angelology of the Apocalypse of Abraham; "The Gods of My Father Terah": Abraham the Iconoclast and Polemics with the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham; The Fallen Trees: Arboreal Metaphors and Polemics with the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham; PART II STUDIES IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH.

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Title Subject:

Apocalypse of Abraham -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Slavonic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Pseudepigraphen -- (Altes Testament.

Abrahamapokalypse.

Slawisches Henoch-Buch.

Pseudepigraphen (Altes Testament)

Abraham-Apokalypse.

Slawisches Henochbuch.

Bibel.

Pseudepigraphen.

Subject Term:

Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Translations into Church Slavic -- History and criticism.

Mysticism -- Judaism.

Merkava.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Summary

This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shiʿur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.

Author Notes

Andrei A. Orlov , Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Ph.D. (2003) in Theology, Marquette University, is an Associate Professor of Christian Origins at Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). He has published extensively on the Old Testament pseudepigrapha including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005) and From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism (JSJS, 114; Leiden: Brill, 2007).