Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2009 Orlov), book
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Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2009) is a book by Andrei A. Orlov.
Abstract
"This volume explores the formative theophanic patterns found in such pseudepigraphical writings as 2 Enoch, Apocalypse of Abraham, and the Ladder of Jacob where the traditions of the divine Form and the divine Name possibly come to their most paradigmatic expressions."--Publisher description.
Editions and translations
Published in Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2009.
Table of contents
Introduction -- The Kavod and Shem paradigms and divine manifestations in the slavonic pseudepigrapha -- Silvanus and Anthony -- Moses and Elijah -- Enoch and Abraham -- The divine body traditions -- Without measure and without analogy : the tradition of the divine body in 2 (slavonic) Enoch -- Adamic tradition of 2 Enoch -- The corporeality of the protoplast -- From the four corners of the world -- The measure of the divine body -- Bodily ascent -- Adam and Enoch : two powers in heaven -- Bodies created according to the likeness of the third one -- The pillar of the world : the eschatological role of the seventh antediluvian hero in 2 (slavonic) Enoch -- The protological disintegration : aeon adoil as the foundation of the world -- Divine manifestations in the slavonic pseudepigrapha -- The eschatological reintegration : the aeon of the righteous -- The motif of luminosity -- The righteous as the foundation -- Enoch-metatron as the foundation of the world -- Enoch's righteousness -- Enoch's luminosity -- Incorruptibility of Enoch -- Enoch as the revealer -- Enoch as the sacerdotal foundation -- Enoch as the redeemer -- The face as the heavenly counterpart of the visionary -- In the slavonic ladder of Jacob -- The slavonic account of Jacob's vision -- The face as God's Kavod -- The face as Jacob's heavenly counterpart -- Uriel-sariel-phanuel -- Princes of the face -- Many lamps are lightened from the one : paradigms of the transformational vision in the Macarian homilies -- The background : transformational vision of the Kavod -- In the likeness of God's image -- Internalization of the Kavod -- Crystallization of the new paradigm : the Macarian account of the Lord's transfiguration -- Moses' heavenly counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the exagoge of Ezekiel the tragedian -- The background : the heavenly counterpart of the seer in the Jacob and the Enoch traditions -- The Jacob traditions -- The Enoch traditions -- Angels of the presence -- The heavenly counterpart of Moses -- The exagoge of Ezekiel the tragedian -- The idiom of standing and the angel of the presence -- The idiom of the hand and the heavenly counterpart -- Resurrection of Adam's body : the redeeming role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 (slavonic) Enoch -- In the mirror of the divine face : the enochic features of the exagoge of Ezekiel the tragedian -- Oneiromantic dreams -- Heavenly ascent -- Angelus interpres -- Esoteric knowledge -- Heavenly counterpart -- Stars and fallen angels