Dark mirrors
Subtitle: Azazel and Satanael in early Jewish demonology
By: Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781438439518
Subjects: Azazel (Jewish mythology); Slavonic book of Enoch; Devil; Jewish demonology; Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Translations into Slavic; Apocalypse of Abraham
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lightless shadows : symmetry of good and evil in early Jewish demonology; title: "The likeness of heaven" : kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham; title: Eschatological Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham : the scapegoat ritual; title: The garment of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham; title: The watchers of Satanael : the fallen angels traditions in 2 (Slavonic) enoch; title: Satan and the visionary : apocalyptic roles of the adversary in the temptation narrative of the Gospel of Matthew; title: The flooded arboretums : the garden traditions in the Slavonic version of 3 Baruch and the Book of Giants.