Divine scapegoats
Subtitle: demonic mimesis in early Jewish mysticism
By: Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781438455839; 9781438455822; 9781438455846
Subjects: Azazel (Jewish mythology); Scapegoat; Judaism; Apocalypsis Abrahami; Criticism, interpretation; Judentum; Apocalypse of Abraham; Jewish demonology; Slawisches Henochbuch; Mysticism; Dämonologie; Slavonic book of Enoch
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The right in the left: the divine and the demonic in the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch -- -- Part I. Studies in the Apocalypse of Abraham.; title: The curses of Azazel --; title: The cosmological temple in the Apocalypse of Abraham --; title: The demise of the antagonist in the apocalyptic scapegoat tradition --; title: The nourishment of Azazel --; title: The messianic scapegoat in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- -- Part II. Studies in 2 Enoch.; title: Adoil outside the cosmos: God before and after --; title: Creation in the Enochic tradition --; title: The veneration motif in the temptation narrative of the Gospel of Matthew: lessons from the Enochic tradition --; title: Primordial lights: the logos and adoil in the Johannine prologue and 2 Enoch.