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Index
Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction - Lighless Shadows: Symmetry of Good and Evil in Early Jewish Demonology
Part I: Azazel
"The Likeness of Heaven": Kavod of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Introduction
The Inheritance of Azazel
The Theophany of Azazel
The Kavod of Azozel
Conclusion
Eschatological Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham: The Scapegoat Ritual
Introduction
Mosaic Background of Abraham's Priestly Initiations and the Day of Atonement
Two Lots
From a Sacrificial Animal to a Fallen Angel
The Goat for YHWH?
Eschatological Lots
Reenactment of the Yom Kippur Festival in theApocalypse of Abraham: The Scapegoat Ritual
The High Priest and Azazel
Abraham and the Scapegoat
Conclusion
The Garment of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Introduction
The Protagonist's Transformation
The Lost Attires
The Garments of Light
The Glory of the Fallen Angel
The Cultic Significance of the Clothing Metaphors
Yom Kippur and the Garden of Eden
Ontological Robes
Clothes of Ascent
Priestly Garments of Abraham
Transformation of the Antagonist
Garments of Descent
Satan's Angelic Garment
Satan's Theriomorphic Garment
Vessels o f Evil: The Antagonist's "Possession" of the "Living" Form
Azazel's Theriomorphism: From Sacrificial Animal to Fallen Angel
The Garment of Darkness
The Impure Bird
Conclusion
Part II: Satanael
The Watchers of Satanael: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
Introduction
2 Enoch 7: The Watchers in the Second Heaven
Traces of the Enochic Template
Traces of the Adamic Template
2 Enoch 18: The Watchers in the Fifth Heaven
Traces of the Enochic Template
Traces of the Adamic Template
The Transitional Template and Its Afterlife in the Shi'ur Qomah and Hekhalot Accounts
Three Watchers
Enoch as the Celestial Choirmaster of the Watchers
Conclusion
Satan and the Visionary: Apocalyptic Roles of the Adversary in the Temptation Narrative of the Gospel of Matthew
The Temptation Story
Enigmatic Psychopomp
Enochic Descent Traditions
The Veneration Motif
Negative Transformation
The Flooded Arboretums: The Garden Traditions in the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch and the Book of Giants
Introduction
The Paradise Traditions of the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch
The Garden Traditions in the Book of Giants
The Angelic Planting of the Garden (3 Baruch 4:7-8)
The Flood in the Garden (3 Baruch 4:10-11)
The Noachic Narrative (3 Baruch 4:11-15)
Conclusion
Notes
Introduction
"The Likeness of Heaven"
Eschatological Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham
The Garment of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham
The Watchers of Satanael
Satan and the Visionary
The Flooded Arboretums
Bibliography
I. Texts and Translations
II. Secondary Literature
Index
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