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Andrei A. Orlov’s books on Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament

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.’

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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).

 

Recent Acquisitions to the HRL, December 2012

 

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“Saints and Sainthood in Central and Eastern Europe” (Sofia, 2012)

 

Ангушева-Тиханова, Аделина, Маргарет Димитрова, Росина Костова, и Росен Р. Малчев, состав. In Stolis Repromissionis: Светци и святост в централна и източна Европа. София: Импресарско издателска къща “РОД,” 2012.

 

 

photo of the book coverDitommaso, Lorenzo, and Christfried Böttrich, eds., with the assistance of Marina Swoboda. The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition: Continuity and Diversity. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 140. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.

 

 

Garipzanov, Ildar H., ed. Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200). Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 26. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011.

 

 

 

Петков, Петко Д. Ръкопис 2/23 от сбирката на Рилския манастир: Сборник с жития от края на XV век. Библиотека отець Неофитъ Рыльскый том 3. София: Херон Прес, 2011.

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Rila Ms. 2/23, Miscellany of Saints’ Lives from the 15th Century

 

 

 

 

“Description of the Slavic Manuscripts in the Church, Historical and Archival Institute – Sofia,” vol. 1

Христова, Боряна, Елисавета Мусакова, Елена Узунова. Опис на славянските ръкописи в Църковно-Историческия и Aрхивен Институт – София, т. I: Библейски книги.София: Борина, 2009.