From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha

by Andrei Orlov and Andrei A. Orlov

The present volume contains essays dealing with the Second Temple Jewish traditions and documents preserved solely in their Slavonic translations. It examines these Slavonic pseudepigraphical materials in the context of their mediating role in the development of early Jewish mystical traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to Merkabah mysticism attested in rabbinic and Hekhalot materials. The book represents the first attempt to study Slavonic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004154396
• ISBN13: 9789004154391
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"