Stars and Spirits: Heavenly Bodies in Ancient Jewish Aramaic Tradition
This study treats the theme of divine judgement as mediated by heavenly beings, the ‘Watchers’ and the members of the heavenly court in the Aramaic Jewish tradition (Dan. 4, 7.1; En. 14), who are imagined as heavenly bodies and spirits, mediators between the human and heavenly worlds. This tradition...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 111-127 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aramaic language
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/ Early Judaism
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament NBH Angelology; demonology |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish astronomy
judgement
Qumran
Watchers
spirits
Aramaic Daniel
Aramaic Enoch
Dan. 10–12
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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