Andrei A Orlov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4229967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrei A Orlov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrei A |
| FAMILY NAME | Orlov |
| SIGNATURE | ORLOV A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2711-6033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abraham among Golems: The Imago Dei Traditions in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha
In this insightful book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the symbolism of the »image of God« found in early Jewish pseudepigraphical accounts, paying special attention to the cultic traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham . The study demonstrates that the Jewish pseudepigrapha transform various biblical characters — including Enoch, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and Aseneth — into eschatological embodiments of the imago Dei . The book argues that these cultic …
Key forecasts and prospects for green transition in the region of Central Asia beyond 2022
The formation of conservative ideology in England in the early period of the “Hannoverian age”
Worthless Secrets: Corruption of Cosmological Knowledge in the Enochic Tradition
The article explores the fallen Watchers’ cosmological secrets and their connection with the cosmological law or the “law of the stars.” It argues that the Watchers’ cosmological expertise is closely connected with their roles in relation to the “law of the stars” as the former participants and guardians of this reified cosmological covenant
Living Mysteries: Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Jewish Apocalypticism
The study 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. It demonstrates that the personification of divine knowledge in early Judaism and, especially, in the Jewish pseudepigrapha reveals a distinct “cultic” way of mediating the divine presence and, consequentially, the divine knowledge that can be designated as the “divine pres…
Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham
In this book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the imagery of »inclination« or yetzer found in the Apocalypse of Abraham . He argues that the text operates with several yetzer anthropologies, some of which are reminiscent of early biblical models, while others are similar to later rabbinic notions. Although the author focuses on the traditions found in the Apocalypse of Abraham , he also treats the evolution of the yetzer symbolism in its full historical…
Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham
In this book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the yetzer anthropologies found in the Apocalypse of Abraham. He argues that a close analysis of these anthropologies challenges previous scholarly hypotheses that that yetzer was only sexualized and gendered for the first time in post-Amoraic sources.
Пророчества книги Даниила: Происхождение, история экзегетики, толкование, written by И. А. Бессонов
Prophesies: Origins, History of Interpretation, and Exegesis published in Russian in St. Petersburg's publishing house "Aletheia," represents one of the first attempts in contemporary Russian biblical scholarship to treat the Book of Daniel in its full historical and interpretive complexity through a broad variety of ancient and modern scholarly sources.The monograph signals the emerging interest in Jewish apocalypticism from various Eastern Euro…
Yahoel and Metatron: Aural Apocalypticism and the Origins of Early Jewish Mysticism
In this work, Andrei A. Orlov examines Jewish apocalyptic traditions about the angel Yahoel, tracing their conceptual impact on the development of later rabbinic and Hekhalot beliefs concerning the supreme angel Metatron. The author argues that the figure Yahoel, who became associated in Jewish apocalypticism with the distinctive aural ideology of the divine Name, provides an important conceptual key not only for elucidating the evolution of the …
Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Arboreal Metaphors and the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham
The first eight chapters of the Apocalypse of Abraham , a Jewish pseudepigraphon preserved solely in its Slavonic translation, deal with the early years of the hero of the faith in the house of his father Terah. 1 The main plot of this section of the text revolves around the family business of manufacturing idols. Terah and his sons are portrayed as craftsmen carving religious figures out of wood, stone, gold, silver, brass, and iron. The zeal wi…
First There Was the Word: Early Russian Texts on Modern Jewish Art
The influx of Jewish artists of Russian origin into the modern fine arts in the beginning of the twentieth century was remarkable in its magnitude, lack of historical precedent, and an ex-nihilo quality. The list only begins with Marc Chagall, Boris Aronson, El Lissitzky, Mane-Katz, Robert Falk, Abram Manevich, Chaim Soutine, Issachar Ryback, Joseph Tchaikov, and Osip Zadkine, and can be supplemented many-times fold. How do we explain that a gene…
The Enoch-Metatron Tradition
Andrei A. Orlov examines the tradition about the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, tracing its development from its roots in the Mesopotamian lore to the Second Temple apocalyptic texts and later rabbinic and Hekhalot materials where Enoch is often identified as the supreme angel Metatron. The first part of the book explores the imagery of the celestial roles and titles of the seventh antediluvian hero in Mesopotamian, Enochic and Hekhalot ma…
Without Measure and Without Analogy: The Tradition of the Divine Body in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
The artice investigates the origins of the Shiccur Qomah tradition. This tradition depicts visionaries, Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Akiba, receiving from the supreme angel Metatron revelations of the «measurement of the body» (in Hebrew, Shiccur Qomah), an anthropomorphic description of the Deity together with the mystical names of its gigantic limbs. Although the majority of the evidence of the the Shiccur Qomah tradition survived in late Jewish wri…
On the Polemical Nature of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: A Reply to C. Böttrich
Adam's story occupies a prominent place in 2 Slavonic (Apocalypse of) Enoch. The traditions pertaining to the first human can be found in all the sections of the book. In these materials Adam is depicted as a glorious angelic being, predestined by God to be the ruler of the earth, but falling short of God's expectations. The article argues that the extensive presence of Adamic materials in 2 Enoch has a polemical nature since it is related to the…
Overshadowed By Enoch's Greatness: "Two Tablets" Traditions From the Book of Giants To Palaea Historica
ancient time was traditionally ascribed to Enoch, 2 who in various Enochic traditions is portrayed as an expert in cosmological, astronomical and calendarical secrets.Another important detail in Josephus' account is that the "two stelae" passage appears in Jewish Antiquities immediately before the story about the Giants.In 1:73 Josephus tells us that "many angels of God now consorted with women and beget sons who were overbearing and disdainful o…
Many Lamps Are Lightened From the One: Paradigms of the Transformational Vision in Macarian Homilies
Nicodemus Hagioretes, in which Pseudo-Symeon conveys preparatory instructions for acquiring the vision of the Taboric light:Then sit down in a quite cell, in a corner by yourself, and do what I tell you.Close the door, and withdraw your intellect from everything worthless and transient.Rest your beard on your chest, and focus your physical gaze, together with the whole of your intellect, upon the centre of your belly or your navel.Restrain the dr…
Melchizedek Legend of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
Contemporary scholarship does not furnish a consensus concerning the possible provenance of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch. 1 In the context of the ambiguity and uncertainty about the cultural and theological origins of 2 Enoch, even distant voices of certain theological themes in the text become very important.One of these important theological reminiscences of 2 Enoch is the theme of Melchizedek-the legendary priest of God Most High. 2 Before giving an exp…
Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch
On the Polemical Nature of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: A Reply to C. Böttrich
Adam's story occupies a prominent place in 2 Slavonic (Apocalypse of) Enoch. The traditions pertaining to the first human can be found in all the sections of the book. In these materials Adam is depicted as a glorious angelic being, predestined by God to be the ruler of the earth, but falling short of God's expectations. The article argues that the extensive presence of Adamic materials in 2 Enoch has a polemical nature since it is related to the…
Many Lamps Are Lightened From the One: Paradigms of the Transformational Vision in Macarian Homilies
Nicodemus Hagioretes, in which Pseudo-Symeon conveys preparatory instructions for acquiring the vision of the Taboric light:Then sit down in a quite cell, in a corner by yourself, and do what I tell you.Close the door, and withdraw your intellect from everything worthless and transient.Rest your beard on your chest, and focus your physical gaze, together with the whole of your intellect, upon the centre of your belly or your navel.Restrain the dr…
Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch
Melchizedek Legend of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
Contemporary scholarship does not furnish a consensus concerning the possible provenance of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch. 1 In the context of the ambiguity and uncertainty about the cultural and theological origins of 2 Enoch, even distant voices of certain theological themes in the text become very important.One of these important theological reminiscences of 2 Enoch is the theme of Melchizedek-the legendary priest of God Most High. 2 Before giving an exp…
Overshadowed By Enoch's Greatness: "Two Tablets" Traditions From the Book of Giants To Palaea Historica
ancient time was traditionally ascribed to Enoch, 2 who in various Enochic traditions is portrayed as an expert in cosmological, astronomical and calendarical secrets.Another important detail in Josephus' account is that the "two stelae" passage appears in Jewish Antiquities immediately before the story about the Giants.In 1:73 Josephus tells us that "many angels of God now consorted with women and beget sons who were overbearing and disdainful o…
Many Lamps Are Lightened From the One: Paradigms of the Transformational Vision in Macarian Homilies
Nicodemus Hagioretes, in which Pseudo-Symeon conveys preparatory instructions for acquiring the vision of the Taboric light:Then sit down in a quite cell, in a corner by yourself, and do what I tell you.Close the door, and withdraw your intellect from everything worthless and transient.Rest your beard on your chest, and focus your physical gaze, together with the whole of your intellect, upon the centre of your belly or your navel.Restrain the dr…
On the Polemical Nature of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: A Reply to C. Böttrich
Adam's story occupies a prominent place in 2 Slavonic (Apocalypse of) Enoch. The traditions pertaining to the first human can be found in all the sections of the book. In these materials Adam is depicted as a glorious angelic being, predestined by God to be the ruler of the earth, but falling short of God's expectations. The article argues that the extensive presence of Adamic materials in 2 Enoch has a polemical nature since it is related to the…
The Enoch-Metatron Tradition
Andrei A. Orlov examines the tradition about the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, tracing its development from its roots in the Mesopotamian lore to the Second Temple apocalyptic texts and later rabbinic and Hekhalot materials where Enoch is often identified as the supreme angel Metatron. The first part of the book explores the imagery of the celestial roles and titles of the seventh antediluvian hero in Mesopotamian, Enochic and Hekhalot ma…
Without Measure and Without Analogy: The Tradition of the Divine Body in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
The artice investigates the origins of the Shiccur Qomah tradition. This tradition depicts visionaries, Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Akiba, receiving from the supreme angel Metatron revelations of the «measurement of the body» (in Hebrew, Shiccur Qomah), an anthropomorphic description of the Deity together with the mystical names of its gigantic limbs. Although the majority of the evidence of the the Shiccur Qomah tradition survived in late Jewish wri…
First There Was the Word: Early Russian Texts on Modern Jewish Art
The influx of Jewish artists of Russian origin into the modern fine arts in the beginning of the twentieth century was remarkable in its magnitude, lack of historical precedent, and an ex-nihilo quality. The list only begins with Marc Chagall, Boris Aronson, El Lissitzky, Mane-Katz, Robert Falk, Abram Manevich, Chaim Soutine, Issachar Ryback, Joseph Tchaikov, and Osip Zadkine, and can be supplemented many-times fold. How do we explain that a gene…
Arboreal Metaphors and the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham
The first eight chapters of the Apocalypse of Abraham , a Jewish pseudepigraphon preserved solely in its Slavonic translation, deal with the early years of the hero of the faith in the house of his father Terah. 1 The main plot of this section of the text revolves around the family business of manufacturing idols. Terah and his sons are portrayed as craftsmen carving religious figures out of wood, stone, gold, silver, brass, and iron. The zeal wi…
Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Yahoel and Metatron: Aural Apocalypticism and the Origins of Early Jewish Mysticism
In this work, Andrei A. Orlov examines Jewish apocalyptic traditions about the angel Yahoel, tracing their conceptual impact on the development of later rabbinic and Hekhalot beliefs concerning the supreme angel Metatron. The author argues that the figure Yahoel, who became associated in Jewish apocalypticism with the distinctive aural ideology of the divine Name, provides an important conceptual key not only for elucidating the evolution of the …
Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham
In this book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the imagery of »inclination« or yetzer found in the Apocalypse of Abraham . He argues that the text operates with several yetzer anthropologies, some of which are reminiscent of early biblical models, while others are similar to later rabbinic notions. Although the author focuses on the traditions found in the Apocalypse of Abraham , he also treats the evolution of the yetzer symbolism in its full historical…
Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham
In this book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the yetzer anthropologies found in the Apocalypse of Abraham. He argues that a close analysis of these anthropologies challenges previous scholarly hypotheses that that yetzer was only sexualized and gendered for the first time in post-Amoraic sources.
Пророчества книги Даниила: Происхождение, история экзегетики, толкование, written by И. А. Бессонов
Prophesies: Origins, History of Interpretation, and Exegesis published in Russian in St. Petersburg's publishing house "Aletheia," represents one of the first attempts in contemporary Russian biblical scholarship to treat the Book of Daniel in its full historical and interpretive complexity through a broad variety of ancient and modern scholarly sources.The monograph signals the emerging interest in Jewish apocalypticism from various Eastern Euro…
Worthless Secrets: Corruption of Cosmological Knowledge in the Enochic Tradition
The article explores the fallen Watchers’ cosmological secrets and their connection with the cosmological law or the “law of the stars.” It argues that the Watchers’ cosmological expertise is closely connected with their roles in relation to the “law of the stars” as the former participants and guardians of this reified cosmological covenant
Living Mysteries: Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Jewish Apocalypticism
The study 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. It demonstrates that the personification of divine knowledge in early Judaism and, especially, in the Jewish pseudepigrapha reveals a distinct “cultic” way of mediating the divine presence and, consequentially, the divine knowledge that can be designated as the “divine pres…
Abraham among Golems: The Imago Dei Traditions in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha
In this insightful book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the symbolism of the »image of God« found in early Jewish pseudepigraphical accounts, paying special attention to the cultic traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham . The study demonstrates that the Jewish pseudepigrapha transform various biblical characters — including Enoch, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and Aseneth — into eschatological embodiments of the imago Dei . The book argues that these cultic …
Key forecasts and prospects for green transition in the region of Central Asia beyond 2022
The formation of conservative ideology in England in the early period of the “Hannoverian age”
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