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The Greatest Mirror
Author | : Andrei A. Orlov |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438466927 |
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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 large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language. Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology and Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism, both also published by SUNY Press.
The Greatest Mirror
Author | : Andrei A. Orlov |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438466910 |
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A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts. The idea of a heavenly doublean angelic twin of an earthbound humancan 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 large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigraphabooks from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Biblecontain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language. This book is the first complete effort to show how some pseudepigraphical works develop several unique traditions about heavenly counterparts. It is particularly important for many scholars who do not have control of the Slavonic originals of the Ladder of Jacob and 2 Enoch. Orlov also draws on a broad range of unfamiliar sources, including Manichaean and Mandaean materials, which were often neglected by experts who previously investigated the heavenly counterpart imagery. Alexander Kulik, coauthor of Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition
Great Astronomers
Author | : Ball,Robert Stawell Ball |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UBBS:UBBS-00070865 |
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Samurai Zen
Author | : Trevor Leggett |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781134452798 |
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Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.
Popular Astronomy
Author | : Simon Newcomb |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015014179439 |
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The Telescope
Author | : Louis Bell |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:4057664573865 |
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This work presents information about telescopes, their construction, and their properties. It's a telescopic history before World War II and was written with the objective of giving out more accurate details concerning telescopes to the many observers who use telescopes for study or amusement. It deals mainly with principles and their application to the telescope, an astronomer's chief research instrument. It is an informative work and would be of great interest to all astronomy fans. Contents include: The Evolution of the Telescope The Modern Telescope Optical Glass and Its Working The Properties of Objectives and Mirrors Mountings Eye-pieces Hand Telescopes and Binoculars Accessories The Testing and Care of Telescopes Setting up and Housing the Telescope Seeing and Magnification
English Mechanics and the World of Science
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Technology |
ISBN | : UCAL:$C208710 |
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English Mechanic and Mirror of Science
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Technology |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924069709289 |
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