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Author Orlov, Andrei A., 1960-

Title From apocalypticism to Merkabah mysticism : studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha / by Andrei A. Orlov
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 483 pages)
Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 114
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 114.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- PREFACE -- LOCATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS -- Part One BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SLAVONIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND RELATED LITERATURE -- I SLAVONIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA -- 1. Collections of the Slavonic Pseudepigraphical Texts -- 2. Collections of the Translations of Slavonic Pseudepigraphical Texts -- 3. Bibliographies of the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha -- 4. Pseudepigrapha -- II RELATED STUDIES -- 1. Jewish Pseudepigraphical Works and Traditions in Slavic Milieux -- 2. 8220;Prohibited Books8221; -- 3. Bogomilism and the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha -- Part Two STUDIES IN THE SLAVONIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ENOCH TRADITION -- OVERSHADOWED BY ENOCH8217;S GREATNESS: 8220;TWO TABLETS8221; TRADITIONS FROM THE BOOK OF GIANTS TO PALAEA HISTORICA -- TITLES OF ENOCH-METATRON IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- 8220;WITHOUT MEASURE AND WITHOUT ANALOGY8221;: THE TRADITION OF THE DIVINE BODY IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- SECRETS OF CREATION IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- CELESTIAL CHOIRMASTER: THE LITURGICAL ROLE OF ENOCH-METATRON IN 2ENOCH AND THE MERKABAH TRADITION -- THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME 8220;METATRON8221; AND THE TEXT OF 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- RESURRECTION OF ADAM8217;S BODY: THE REDEEMING ROLE OF ENOCH-METATRON IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- THE ADAM TRADITION -- ON THE POLEMICAL NATURE OF 2(SLAVONIC) ENOCH: A REPLY TO C. B214;TTRICH -- 8220;MANY LAMPS ARE LIGHTENED FROM THE ONE8221;: PARADIGMS OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL VISION IN THE MACARIAN HOMILIES -- THE FLOODED ARBORETUMS: THE GARDEN TRADITIONS IN THE SLAVONIC VERSION OF 3 BARUCH AND THE BOOK OF GIANTS -- THE MOSES TRADITION -- EX 33 ON GOD8217;S FACE: A LESSON FROM THE ENOCHIC TRADITION -- VESTED WITH ADAM8217;S GLORY: MOSES AS THE LUMINOUS COUNTERPART OF ADAM IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE MACARIAN HOMILIES -- THE HEIRS OF THE ENOCHIC LORE: 8220;MEN OF FAITH8221; IN 2ENOCH 35 -- THE NOAH TRADITION -- 8220;NOAH8217;S YOUNGER BROTHER8221;: THE ANTI-NOACHIC POLEMICS IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- NOAH8217;S YOUNGER BROTHER REVISITED: ANTI-NOACHIC POLEMICS AND THE DATE OF 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- THE JACOB TRADITION -- THE FACE AS THE HEAVENLY COUNTERPART OF THE VISIONARY IN THE SLAVONIC LADDER OF JACOB -- THE MELCHIZEDEK TRADITION -- MELCHIZEDEK LEGEND OF 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF SOURCES -- MODERN AUTHOR INDEX
Summary The present volume contains essays dealing with the Second Temple Jewish traditions and documents preserved solely in their Slavonic translations. It examines these Slavonic pseudepigraphical materials in the context of their mediating role in the development of early Jewish mystical traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to Merkabah mysticism attested in rabbinic and Hekhalot materials. The book represents the first attempt to study Slavonic pseudepigrapha collectively as a unique group of texts that share common theophanic and mediatorial imagery crucial for the development of early Jewish mysticism. The study demonstrates that mediatorial traditions of the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-464) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bibel Altes Testament Apokryphen gnd
Subject Apocryphal books -- Translations into Slavic -- History and criticism
Apocryphal books -- Translations into Slavic -- Bibliography
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
Apocriefen.
Slavische handschriften.
Jodendom.
Slawische Sprachen.
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006047336
ISBN 9789047411246
9047411242
1281400858
9781281400857
6611400850
9786611400859