Greatest Mirror - Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha

The idea of a heavenly double-an angelic twin of an earthbound human-can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirro

About the author

Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of The Greatest Mirror: Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha; Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism; and Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology, all published by SUNY Press.

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• Authors: Andrei A Orlov, Andrei A. Orlov, Orlov Andrei A.
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781438466903
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6690-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings, Bibles, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Old Testaments, Jewish texts: Tanakh, Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics