Andrei A. Orlov, professor of theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), presented us with one of his recent publications, Воскрешение ветхого Адама: вознесение, преображение и обожение праведника в раннеи иудеискои мистике  ‘Resurrection of the Fallen Adam: Ascension, Transfiguration, and Deification of the Righteous in Early Jewish Mysticism.’

Gray book cover with author and title in black with black image of a Hanukkah menorah with a tree on either side

The volume is a collection of previously published articles, some of which have been revised. The book is divided into four sections: the Book of 2 Enoch, Jacob’s Ladder, the Apocalypse of Abraham, and the Book of 3 Baruch.

New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2012), edited by Andrei A. Orlov, TItle, authors and series title in varying shades of blue from light blue-gray to turquoise , which is vol. 4 of the series Studia Judaeoslavica, contains the collected proceedings from the Fifth Conference of the Enoch Seminar in Naples, Italy (June 14-18, 2009). It includes articles by Grant Macaskill, Liudmila Navtanovich, Anissava Miltenova et al.

 

Front cover of the book: top third is author name in gold, title in white, lower two-thirds of the cover is a fresco of the Archangel Michael from the Byzantine and Christian Museum in AthensOther works by Orlov include “Potaennye knigi”: iudeiskaia mistika v slavianskikh apokrifakh (2011), Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology (2011; Project MUSE 2014), Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham (2013), Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2009), Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2009), From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigraph (2007), and The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (2005).