From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism

Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15439-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 114, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1070 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orlov, Andrei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Altslawische (Kirchen-)Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Apokryphen, Pseudepigraphen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Über Autor(innen)

Andrei A. Orlov, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, and Ph.D. (2003) in Theology, Marquette University, is an Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at Marquette University. He has published extensively on the Old Testament pseudepigrapha including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Mohr-Siebeck, 2005).