Selected studies in the Slavonic pseudepigrapha
By: by Andrei A. Orlov.
Series: Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha -- v. 23
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004178793
Subjects: Apocalypse of Abraham -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Slavonic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Translations into Slavic -- History and criticism; Mysticism -- Judaism
Notes: Includes index.

"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.