"Yetzer" anthropologies in the "Apocalypse of Abraham"
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Yetzer Terminology in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- 1.1 Methodological Difficulties -- 1.1.1 Terminological Uncertainties -- 1.1.2 Conceptual Ambiguities -- 1.1.3 Translational Challenges -- 1.2 Terminology of &quo...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Yetzer Terminology in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- 1.1 Methodological Difficulties -- 1.1.1 Terminological Uncertainties -- 1.1.2 Conceptual Ambiguities -- 1.1.3 Translational Challenges -- 1.2 Terminology of "Heart" -- 1.3 Terminology of "Desire" -- 1.4 Terminology of "Thought" -- 1.5 Terminology of "Counsel" -- Chapter Two: Yetzer Traditions in the Haggadic Section -- 2.1 Idolatry and Yetzer -- 2.2 Human Heart and Yetzer in Abraham's Story in the Book of Jubilees -- 2.3 Protological Traditions in the Haggadic Section -- Chapter Three: Yetzer Traditions in the Apocalyptic Section -- 3.1 Reification of Yetzer -- 3.1.1 Two Ways Traditions -- 3.1.2 Two Lots Traditions -- 3.1.3 Internalization of Evil in Early Enochic Materials -- 3.1.4 Internalization of Evil in the Book of Jubilees -- 3.1.5 Internalization of Evil in the Qumran Materials -- 3.1.6 Demonological Developments in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- 3.1.7 The Antagonist's Control over the Human Race: Azazel's Lot -- 3.1.8 Azazel's Will: Backdoor to the Human Nature? -- 3.2 Sexualizing Yetzer: Azazel -- 3.2.1 Azazel as the Serpent and the Serpent as Yetzer Hara -- 3.2.2 Azazel as the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Knowledge as Yetzer Hara -- 3.3 Sexualizing Yetzer: Eve -- 3.4 Gendering Yetzer -- 3.5 Nationalizing Yetzer -- Chapter Four: Conquering the Evil Inclination -- 4.1 Adam, Azazel, and Abraham -- 4.2 Torah and Yetzer -- 4.3 Angelic Assistance -- 4.4 Exorcistic Tools -- Chapter Five: Anthropologies of Yetzer -- 5.1 Anthropologies of Yetzer in Rabbinic Accounts -- 5.2 Anthropologies of Yetzer in the Apocalypse of Abraham -- 5.2.1 "Biblical" Pattern -- 5.2.2 "Pseudepigraphical" Pattern -- 5.2.3 "Late Rabbinic" Pattern -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- Index of Authors. In this book, Andrei A. Orlov examines the imagery of "inclination" or yetzer found in the Apocalypse of Abraham. He argues that the text operates with several yetzer anthropologies, some of which are reminiscent of early biblical models, while others are similar to later rabbinic notions. Although the author focuses on the traditions found in the Apocalypse of Abraham, he also treats the evolution of the yetzer symbolism in its full historical and interpretive complexity through a broad variety of Jewish and Christian sources, from the creational narratives of the Hebrew Bible to later rabbinic testimonies. He further argues that a close analysis of the yetzer anthropologies found in the Apocalypse of Abraham challenges previous scholarly hypotheses that yetzer was only sexualized and gendered for the first time in the post-Amoraic sources |
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| ISBN: | 3161594584 |