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  • Dark Mirrors

    Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    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 ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Broken Vessels

    Theogonies of the Divine Light in Judaism and Christianity

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    Undertakes a thorough investigation of early Jewish theogonic and cosmogonic traditions found in the Enochic writings and their formative influence on subsequent Gnostic, Manichaean, and Kabbalistic developments.In Broken Vessels, Andrei A. Orlov offers a comprehensive examination of early Jewish theogonic symbolism as reflected in early Enochic texts and its subsequent influence on Gnostic, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Glory of the Invisible God

    Two Powers in Heaven Traditions and Early Christology

    by Professor Andrei Orlov ...
    Series series Jewish and Christian Texts
    Andrei Orlov examines early Christological developments in the light of rabbinic references to the “two powers” in heaven, tracing the impact of this concept through both canonical and non-canonical material.Orlov begins by looking at imagery of the “two powers” in early Jewish literature, in particular the book of Daniel, and in pseudepigraphical writings. He then traces the concept through ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Supernal Serpent

    Mysteries of Leviathan in Judaism and Christianity

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    Supernal Serpent explores the development of the Leviathan tradition from its early roots in ancient West Asian and biblical accounts, up to the later rabbinic traditions. Concentrating on the theophanic features of Leviathan's appearances in Jewish biblical, pseudepigraphical, and rabbinic accounts, special attention is paid to the traditions found in the Book of Job and the Apocalypse of Abraham ... Read more

    $124.79 CAD

  • Demons of Change

    Antagonism and Apotheosis in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.Antagonistic imagery has a striking presence in apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. In these visionary accounts, the role of the divine warrior fighting against demonic forces is often taken by a ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Biblical World
    This book explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses.The study treats the concept of divine knowledge as the embodied divine presence in its full historical and interpretive complexity by tracing the theme through a broad variety of ancient Near Eastern and Jewish sources, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Greatest Mirror

    Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.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 Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    The Apocalypse of Abraham is a vital source for understanding both Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism. Written anonymously soon after the destruction of the Second Jerusalem Temple, the text envisions heaven as the true place of worship and depicts Abraham as an initiate of celestial priesthood. Andrei A. Orlov focuses on the central rite of the Abraham story – the scapegoat ritual that receives ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Divine Scapegoats

    Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism

    by Andrei A. Orlov ...
    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 ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research: Recent Trends

    20th International Conference, MOTOR 2021, Irkutsk, Russia, July 5–10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Alexander Strekalovsky, Yury Kochetov, Tatiana Gruzdeva, Andrei Orlov ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2021, held in Irkutsk, Russia, in July 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 31 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. The papers in ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

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  • The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

    by Benjamin D. Sommer ...
    Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in ... Read more

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  • The Nag Hammadi Scriptures

    The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume

    by Marvin W. Meyer, James M. Robinson ...
    The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, as well as other Gnostic gospels and sacred ... Read more

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