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The book shows how apocryphal accounts could become a medium of literary and artistic elaboration and mythological creativity. Local adaptations of Biblical stories indicate that copyists, authors and artists conceived of themselves as living not in a post-Biblical era, but in direct continuity with Biblical personages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors    Introduction    Part 1 Esoteric Writing and Esoteric Cults in the Biblical Religions    1 The Exoteric Settings of Jewish Esotericism   Ithamar Gruenwald    2 The Gospel of Peter between the Synoptics, Second Century, and Late Antique ‘Apostolic Memoirs’   Tobias Nicklas    3 All Mysteries Revealed? On the Interplay between Hiding and Revealing and the Dangers of Heavenly Journeys according to the Ascension of Isaiah   Joseph Verheyden    4 Early Christianity and the Pagan Mysteries: Esoteric Knowledge?   Jan N. Bremmer    5 The Medieval Dualist Nachleben of Early Jewish and Christian Esoteric Traditions: The Role of the Pseudepigrapha   Yuri Stoyanov    6 The Esoteric Cardinal: Giorgios Gemistos, Bessarion and Theurgy   Ezio Albrile    Part 2 Bridging the Account of the Origins and the Messiah’s Advent    7 La création d’ Adam à Noravank̔: Théologie et narrativité   Jean-Pierre Mahé    8 Translatio corporis Adæ: Trajectories of a Parabiblical Tradition   Sergey Minov    9 Apostles, Long Dead ‘Heretics’, and Monks: Noncanonical Traditions on Angels and Protoplasts in Two Late Antique Coptic Apocalypses (7th–8th Century CE)   Daniele Tripaldi    10 Face as the Image of God in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha   Andrei A. Orlov    11 On the Perdition of the Higher Intellect and on the Image of Light: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary   Maria V. Korogodina and Basil Lourié    12 Bridging the Gaps in the Samaritan Tradition   Abraham Tal    13 ‘On the Mountains of Ararat’: Noah’s Ark and the Sacred Topography of Armenia   Nazénie Garibian    14 The Historian’s Craft and Temporal Bridges in Apocrypha and in Early Christian Art: Para-Biblical Sources in the Light of the Work of Marc Bloch   Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev    Part 3 Symbols and Figures of the Messianic Expectation    15 Quellen der nichtbiblischen Mose-Überlieferung in der Kratkaja Chronografičeskaja Paleja   Dieter Fahl and Sabine Fahl    16 Whether Lamb or Lion: Overlapping Metaphors in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism   Abraham Terian    17 Rescuing John the Baptist   Albert I. Baumgarten    18 The Esoteric Legacy of the Magi of Bethlehem in the Framework of the Iranian Speculations about Jesus, Zoroaster and His Three Posthumous Sons   Antonio Panaino    19 Visual Apocrypha: The Case of Mary and the Magi in Early Christian Rome   Felicity Harley    20 Gnostic and Mithraic Themes in Sefer Zerubbabel   Yishai Kiel    Part 4 Angels, Heavenly Journeys and Visions of Paradise    21 1 Enoch 17 in the Geneva Papyrus 187   David Hamidović    22 Enochic Traditions in Slavia Orthodoxa   Florentina Badalanova Geller    23 Visions of Paradise in the Life of St Andrew the Fool and the Legacy of the Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Byzantium   Emmanouela Grypeou    24 Eternal Chains and the Mountain of Darkness: The Fallen Angels in the Incantation Bowls   Yakir Paz    25 Iconography of Angels: Roots and Origins in the Earliest Christian Art   Cecilia Proverbio    26 The Gardens of Eden: Compositional, Iconographic and Semantic Similarities between the ‘Birds Mosaic’ of the Armenian Chapel in Jerusalem and the Mosaic of the Synagogue at Maʿon (Nirim)   Zaruhi Hakobyan    Postscript: Border-Crossing Texts   Hartmut Leppin    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535925805399,"sku":"9789004445932","price":224.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/apocryphal-and-esoteric-sources-in-the-development-of-christianity-and-judaism-the-eastern-mediterranean-the-near-east-and-beyond-9789004445932","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}