The atoning dyad : : the two goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham / / by Andrei A. Orlov.

The study explores the eschatological reinterpretation of the Yom Kippur ritual found in the Apocalypse of Abraham where the protagonist of the story, the patriarch Abraham, takes on the role of a celestial goat for YHWH, while the text’s antagonist, the fallen angel Azazel, is envisioned as the dem...

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Superior document:Studia Judaeoslavica, Volume 8
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaeoslavica ; Volume 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 178 pages)
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