Living Mysteries: Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Jewish Apocalypticism

Authors

Andrei Orlov, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Publisher

Brill

Source Publication

Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies

Source ISSN

2451-8581

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.1163/2451859X-00701002

Abstract

The study explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses. It demonstrates that the personification of divine knowledge in early Judaism and, especially, in the Jewish pseudepigrapha reveals a distinct “cultic” way of mediating the divine presence and, consequentially, the divine knowledge that can be designated as the “divine presence’s epistemology.”

Comments

Accepted version. Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2022): 17-52. DOI. © 2022 Brill Academic Publishers. Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Orlov, Andrei, "Living Mysteries: Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Jewish Apocalypticism" (2022). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 899.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/899