From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism ：Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha

Publication series ：1

Author： Orlov   Andrei  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9789047411246

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004154391

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004154391

Subject： B971 Bible

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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This volume 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.

Chapter

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

Fragment “Seventy Names of God”

Fragment “About All Creation”

Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve

The Story of God’s Creation of Adam

Adam Octipartite

Adamic Fragments in the Apocryphal Circle about the Tree of the Cross

Adamic Fragments in the Discourse of the Three Hierarchs

The Homily of Adam in Hades to Lazarus

Adamic and Sataniel Fragments in the Legend about the Tiberian Sea

The Apocryphon about the Struggle of the Archangel Michael with Sataniel

2Enoch

Enochic Fragment about the Two Tablets

Fragment about the Flood

Apocalypse of Abraham

Testament of Abraham

Apocryphal Fragments about Melchizedek

The Ladder of Jacob

Joseph and Aseneth

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Testament of Job

Life of Moses

Apocryphal Fragments about David

Apocryphal Fragments about Solomon

Apocryphal Fragments about Elijah

Ascension of Isaiah

3 Baruch

4 Baruch

Pseudo-Danielic Fragments

Apocalypse of Zosimus

Ahiqar

The Word of the Blessed Zerubabel

The Josippon

Palaea Historica

Explanatory Palaea

Palaea Chronographica

II RELATED STUDIES

1. Jewish Pseudepigraphical Works and Traditions in Slavic Milieux

2. “Prohibited Books”

3. Bogomilism and the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha

Part Two STUDIES IN THE SLAVONIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA

INTRODUCTION

THE ENOCH TRADITION

OVERSHADOWED BY ENOCH’S GREATNESS: “TWO TABLETS” TRADITIONS FROM THE BOOK OF GIANTS TO PALAEA HISTORICA

TITLES OF ENOCH-METATRON IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH

“WITHOUT MEASURE AND WITHOUT ANALOGY”: 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 “METATRON” AND THE TEXT OF 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH

RESURRECTION OF ADAM’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. BÖTTRICH

“MANY LAMPS ARE LIGHTENED FROM THE ONE”: 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 GOD’S FACE: A LESSON FROM THE ENOCHIC TRADITION

VESTED WITH ADAM’S GLORY: MOSES AS THE LUMINOUS COUNTERPART OF ADAM IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE MACARIAN HOMILIES

THE HEIRS OF THE ENOCHIC LORE: “MEN OF FAITH” IN 2ENOCH 35:2 AND SEFER HEKHALOT 48D:10

THE NOAH TRADITION

“NOAH’S YOUNGER BROTHER”: THE ANTI-NOACHIC POLEMICS IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH

NOAH’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

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