Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond

652 Pages·2021·8.036 MB·English

by  Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

ApocryphalandEsotericSourcesintheDevelopmentofChristianityand
Judaism
Texts and Studies
in Eastern Christianity
ChiefEditor
KenParry(MacquarieUniversity)
EditorialBoard
AlessandroBausi(UniversityofHamburg)–MonicaBlanchard
(CatholicUniversityofAmerica)–MalcolmChoat(MacquarieUniversity)
PeterGaladza(SaintPaulUniversity)–VictorGhica(mfNorwegianSchool
ofTheology,ReligionandSociety)–EmmaLoosley(UniversityofExeter)
BasilLourié(StPetersburg)–JohnMcGuckin(Columbia
University)–StephenRapp(SamHoustonStateUniversity)
DietmarW.Winkler(UniversityofSalzburg)
volume 21
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Apocryphal and Esoteric
Sources in the Development of
Christianity and Judaism
TheEasternMediterranean,theNearEast,andBeyond
Editedby
IgorDorfmann-Lazarev
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Contents
Preface xi
ListofFiguresandTables xii
NotesonContributors xvii
Introduction 1
part 1
EsotericWritingandEsotericCultsintheBiblicalReligions
1 TheExotericAppearancesofJewishEsotericism 29
IthamarGruenwald
2 TheGospelofPeterbetweentheSynoptics,SecondCentury,andLate
Antique‘ApostolicMemoirs’ 43
TobiasNicklas
3 AllMysteriesRevealed?OntheInterplaybetweenHidingandRevealing
andtheDangersofHeavenlyJourneysaccordingtotheAscensionof
Isaiah 70
JosephVerheyden
4 EarlyChristianityandthePaganMysteries:EsotericKnowledge? 88
JanN.Bremmer
5 TheMedievalDualistNachlebenofEarlyJewishandChristianEsoteric
Traditions:TheRoleofthePseudepigrapha 105
YuriStoyanov
6 TheEsotericCardinal:GiorgiosGemistos,BessarionandTheurgy 124
EzioAlbrile
viii contents
part 2
BridgingtheAccountoftheOriginsandtheMessiah’sAdvent
7 Lacréationd’AdamàNoravank̔:Théologieetnarrativité 143
Jean-PierreMahé
8 TranslatiocorporisAdæ:TrajectoriesofaParabiblicalTradition 153
SergeyMinov
9 Apostles,LongDead‘Heretics’,andMonks:NoncanonicalTraditionson
AngelsandProtoplastsinTwoLateAntiqueCopticApocalypses
(7th–8thCenturyce) 179
DanieleTripaldi
10 FaceastheImageofGodintheJewishPseudepigrapha 206
AndreiA.Orlov
11 OnthePerditionoftheHigherIntellectandontheImageofLight:Critical
Edition,Translation,andCommentary 217
MariaV.KorogodinaandBasilLourié
12 BridgingtheGapsintheSamaritanTradition 262
AbrahamTal
13 ‘OntheMountainsofArarat’:Noah’sArkandtheSacredTopographyof
Armenia 276
NazénieGaribian
14 TheHistorian’sCraftandTemporalBridgesinApocryphaandinEarly
ChristianArt:Para-BiblicalSourcesintheLightoftheWorkofMarc
Bloch 296
IgorDorfmann-Lazarev
part 3
SymbolsandFiguresoftheMessianicExpectation
15 QuellendernichtbiblischenMose-ÜberlieferunginderKratkaja
ChronografičeskajaPaleja 317
DieterandSabineFahl
contents ix
16 WhetherLamborLion:OverlappingMetaphorsinJewishandChristian
Apocalypticism 340
AbrahamTerian
17 RescuingJohntheBaptist 351
AlbertI.Baumgarten
18 TheEsotericLegacyoftheMagiofBethlehemintheFrameworkofthe
IranianSpeculationsaboutJesus,ZoroasterandHisThreePosthumous
Sons 368
AntonioPanaino
19 VisualApocrypha:TheCaseofMaryandtheMagiinEarlyChristian
Rome 383
FelicityHarley
20 GnosticandMithraicThemesinSeferZerubbabel 411
YishaiKiel
part 4
Angels,HeavenlyJourneysandVisionsofParadise
21 1Enoch17intheGenevaPapyrus187 439
DavidHamidović
22 EnochicTextsandRelatedTraditionsinSlaviaOrthodoxa 452
FlorentinaBadalanovaGeller
23 VisionsofParadiseintheLifeofStAndrewtheFoolandtheLegacyof
theJewishPseudepigraphainByzantium 521
EmmanouelaGrypeou
24 EternalChainsandtheMountainofDarkness:TheFallenAngelsinthe
IncantationBowls 533
YakirPaz
25 IconographyofAngels:RootsandOriginsintheEarliestChristian
Art 559
CeciliaProverbio
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26 TheGardensofEden:Compositional,IconographicandSemantic
Similaritiesbetweenthe‘BirdsMosaic’oftheArmenianChapelin
JerusalemandtheMosaicoftheSynagogueatMaʿon(Nirim) 590
ZaruhiHakobyan
Postscript:Border-CrossingTexts 610
HartmutLeppin
IndexofPlaceNames 619
IndexofModernandEarlyModernAuthors 621
IndexofBiblicalandMythologicalNames 623
IndexofSubjects 626
IndexofAncientandMediævalSources 629