{"product_id":"the-greatest-mirror-heavenly-counterparts-in-the-jewish-pseudepigrapha","title":"Greatest Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea of a heavenly double-an angelic twin of an earthbound human-can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha-books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible-contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including \u003ci\u003eAnimal Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBook of the Watchers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e2 Enoch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLadder of Jacob\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJoseph and Aseneth\u003c\/i\u003e, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54011820278104,"sku":null,"price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438466903.jpg?v=1777895156","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-greatest-mirror-heavenly-counterparts-in-the-jewish-pseudepigrapha","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}