Discusses the two most important figures in early Jewish mythologies
of evil, the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael. Dark Mirrors is a
wide-ranging study of two central figures in early Jewish
demonology-the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael. Andrei A. Orlov
explores the mediating role of these paradigmatic celestial rebels in
the development of Jewish demonological traditions from Second Temple
apocalypticism to later Jewish mysticism, such as that of the Hekhalot
and Shi'ur Qomah materials. Throughout, Orlov makes use of Jewish
pseudepigraphical materials in Slavonic that are not widely known.
Orlov traces the origins of Azazel and Satanael to different and
competing mythologies of evil, one to the Fall in the Garden of Eden,
the other to the revolt of angels in the antediluvian period. Although
Azazel and Satanael are initially representatives of rival etiologies
of corruption, in later Jewish and Christian demonological lore each
is able to enter the other's stories in new conceptual capacities.
Dark Mirrors also examines the symmetrical patterns of early Jewish
demonology that are often manifested in these fallen angels' imitation
of the attributes of various heavenly beings, including principal
angels and even God himself.
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Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781438439532
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Suny Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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