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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andrei A Orlov, Andrei A. Orlov, Orlov Andrei A.
• Edition: State University of New York Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781438466903
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6690-3
• Pages: 318
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; 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