Divine Scapegoats
Title | Divine Scapegoats PDF eBook |
Author | Andrei A. Orlov |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1438455836 |
Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts. Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of the Deity himself, an inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the demonic realm is maintained by imitating divine reality. Andrei A. Orlov examines the sacerdotal, messianic, and creational aspects of this mimetic imagery, focusing primarily on two texts from the Slavonic pseudepigrapha: 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham. These two works are part of a very special cluster of Jewish apocalyptic texts that exhibit features not only of the apocalyptic worldview but also of the symbolic universe of early Jewish mysticism. The Yom Kippur ritual in the Apocalypse of Abraham, the divine light and darkness of 2 Enoch, and the similarity of mimetic motifs to later developments in the Zohar are of particular importance in Orlovs consideration.
Killing the god (cont'd) The golden bough
Title | Killing the god (cont'd) The golden bough PDF eBook |
Author | James George Frazer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Dying and rising gods |
ISBN |
The Golden Bough: pt. VI. The scapegoat. 1913
Title | The Golden Bough: pt. VI. The scapegoat. 1913 PDF eBook |
Author | James George Frazer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 490 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Magic |
ISBN |
Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology
Title | Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | Tyson L. Putthoff |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2016-11-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004336419 |
In Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology, Tyson L. Putthoff combines contemporary theory and sound exegesis to understand early Jewish beliefs about how the human self reacts ontologically in God’s presence.
The Scapegoat
Title | The Scapegoat PDF eBook |
Author | René Girard |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 1989-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801839173 |
"[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal." -- John Yoder, Religion and Literature.
The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Title | The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham PDF eBook |
Author | Andrei Orlov |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004308229 |
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.
The Golden Bough
Title | The Golden Bough PDF eBook |
Author | James George Frazer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Magic |
ISBN |