Living Mysteries: Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Jewish Apocalypticism

The study explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses. It demonstrates that the personification of divine knowledge in early Judaism and, especially, in the Jewish pseudepigrapha...

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Auteur principal: Orlov, Andrei A. 1960- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2022
Dans: Gnosis
Année: 2022, Volume: 7, Numéro: 1, Pages: 17-52
Sujets non-standardisés:B Adam
B Imago Dei
B Apocalypticism
B Judaism
B Embodiment
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Résumé:The study explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses. It demonstrates that the personification of divine knowledge in early Judaism and, especially, in the Jewish pseudepigrapha reveals a distinct “cultic” way of mediating the divine presence and, consequentially, the divine knowledge that can be designated as the “divine presence’s epistemology.”
ISSN:2451-859X
Contient:Enthalten in: Gnosis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/2451859X-00701002