Andrei A. Orlov is a scholar of early Jewish and Christian mysticism, and this Mohr Siebeck monograph, part of the Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism series, is his academic study tracing how the biblical figure of Enoch was transformed into the angel Metatron across early Jewish apocalyptic and mystical literature. Its strength is close philological work across a wide range of Second Temple and later Hekhalot texts, tracing the tradition's development in careful textual detail rather than summarizing secondhand. Its limit is that it is a specialist study aimed at scholars of Jewish mysticism, so a reader wanting a general introduction to the Enoch literature as a whole, rather than specifically the Metatron transformation, needs a broader source alongside it.
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Published by Mohr Siebeck, a leading German academic press for religious studies and theology, Andrei A. Orlov's scholarly monograph, peer reviewed university-level scholarship. NotesScholarly study of the Enoch-Metatron tradition, tracing the transformation of the biblical Enoch into the angel Metatron across early Jewish mystical and apocalyptic literature.
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AuthorAndrei A. Orlov
PublisherMohr Siebeck
Publication Year2005
Source Typebook
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Enoch, Figures This source names Enoch directly: "tracing how the biblical figure of Enoch was transformed into the angel Metatron across early Jewish apocalyptic and mystical literature."
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- Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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