The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham

In Atoning Dyad Andrei A. Orlov explores the eschatological reinterpretation of the Yom Kippur ritual found in the Apocalypse of Abraham where the protagonist and the antagonist of the story are envisioned as two goats of the atoning rite.

A propos de l'auteur

Andrei A. Orlov, Ph.D. in Sociology (1990), Russian Academy of Sciences, and Theology (2003), Marquette University, Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at the same institution. He has published extensively on Jewish apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism, including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Mohr/Siebeck, 2005), Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham (Cambridge, 2013), and Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism (SUNY, 2015).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andrei Orlov
• Edition: Brill
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9789004308213
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30821-3
• Pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Poids: 386 g
• Thème: Studia Judaeoslavica
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Judaïsme