Divine scapegoats : demonic mimesis in early Jewish mysticism / Andrei A. Orlov.
Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781438455846
- 1438455844
- Jewish demonology
- Azazel (Jewish mythology)
- Scapegoat
- Mysticism -- Judaism
- Apocalypse of Abraham -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Slavonic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Apocalypse of Abraham
- Slavonic book of Enoch
- Azazel (Jewish mythology)
- Jewish demonology
- Mysticism -- Judaism
- Scapegoat
- RELIGION / Judaism / General
- 296.3/16 23
- BM645.D45 O755 2015eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- The curses of Azazel -- The cosmological temple in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- The demise of the antagonist in the apocalyptic scapegoat tradition -- The nourishment of Azazel -- The messianic scapegoat in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- Part II. Studies in 2 Enoch -- Adoil outside the cosmos: God before and after -- Creation in the Enochic tradition -- The veneration motif in the temptation narrative of the Gospel of Matthew: lessons from the Enochic tradition -- Primordial lights: the logos and adoil in the Johannine prologue and 2 Enoch.
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