Enoch and the City of Zion: Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?
There are some things that I have done in the past year or two that I have not managed to post on this blog. I hope to rectify some of that and be a bit more active in getting things up here. One of...
View ArticleAncient Jewish Synagogue at Dura Europos Seized by ISIS in Syria
“Jihadists looting ancient archaeological sites, including 244 BCE synagogue; officials warn 5,000 years of history being erased.” An Israeli news website has shared an AP report that ISIS (Islamic...
View ArticleAncient Jewish Traditions Concerning Angels (Draft for Ensign)
I recently posted on Facebook regarding a small contribution that I made to December’s Ensign magazine. I had been invited a number of months ago to contribute to an article on angels that has now...
View ArticleImportant New Monograph by Andrei A. Orlov, “Divine Scapegoats”
Andrei A. Orlov, Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism (Albany: SUNY, 2015) 352 pages, ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5583-9 Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels...
View ArticleAnother Important New Book by Andrei Orlov, “The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats...
Prolific author Andrei A. Orlov, Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University, has completed another exciting new book that is to be published by the prestigious biblical...
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