عنوان

Beyond Judaisms:

شماره

LA118608

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Beyond Judaisms:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Metatron and the Divine Polymorphy of Ancient Judaism

نام نخستين پديدآور

Daniel Boyarin

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

"My specific project in this paper is to combine several related and notorious questions in the history of Judaism into one: What is the nexus among the semi-divine (or high angel) figure known in the Talmud as Metatron, the figure of the exalted Enoch in the Enoch books (1-3 Enoch!), "The One Like a Son of Man" of Daniel, Jesus, the Son of Man, and the rabbinically named heresy of "Two Powers/Sovereignties in Heaven?" I believe that in order to move towards some kind of an answer to this question, we need to develop a somewhat different approach to the study of ancient Judaism, as I hope to show here. I claim that late-ancient rabbinic literature when read in the context of all contemporary and earlier texts of Judaism-those defined as rabbinic as well as those defined as non-, para-, or even anti-rabbinic-affords us a fair amount of evidence for and information about a belief in (and perhaps cult of) a second divine person within, or very close to, so-called "orthodox" rabbinic circles long after the advent of Christianity. Part of the evidence for this very cult will come from efforts at its suppression on the part of rabbinic texts. I believe, moreover, that a reasonable chain of inference links this late cult figure back through the late-antique Book of 3 Enoch to the Enoch of the first-century Parables of Enoch-also known in the scholarly literature as the Similitudes of Enoch-and thus to the Son of Man of that text and further back to the One Like a Son of Man of Daniel 7. My specific project in this paper is to combine several related and notorious questions in the history of Judaism into one: What is the nexus among the semi-divine (or high angel) figure known in the Talmud as Metatron, the figure of the exalted Enoch in the Enoch books (1-3 Enoch!), "The One Like a Son of Man" of Daniel, Jesus, the Son of Man, and the rabbinically named heresy of "Two Powers/Sovereignties in Heaven?" I believe that in order to move towards some kind of an answer to this question, we need to develop a somewhat different approach to the study of ancient Judaism, as I hope to show here. I claim that late-ancient rabbinic literature when read in the context of all contemporary and earlier texts of Judaism-those defined as rabbinic as well as those defined as non-, para-, or even anti-rabbinic-affords us a fair amount of evidence for and information about a belief in (and perhaps cult of) a second divine person within, or very close to, so-called "orthodox" rabbinic circles long after the advent of Christianity. Part of the evidence for this very cult will come from efforts at its suppression on the part of rabbinic texts. I believe, moreover, that a reasonable chain of inference links this late cult figure back through the late-antique Book of 3 Enoch to the Enoch of the first-century Parables of Enoch-also known in the scholarly literature as the Similitudes of Enoch-and thus to the Son of Man of that text and further back to the One Like a Son of Man of Daniel 7."

تاريخ نشر

2010

توصيف ظاهري

323-365

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

41/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

3 ENOCH

اصطلاح موضوعی

ANCIENT JUDAISM

اصطلاح موضوعی

JUDAISMS

اصطلاح موضوعی

METATRON

اصطلاح موضوعی

SON OF MAN

اصطلاح موضوعی

TALMUD

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Daniel Boyarin

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157006310X503612

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y