Dark Mirrors Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology

Front Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Abbreviations......Page 7
Introduction - Lighless Shadows: Symmetry of Good and Evil in Early Jewish Demonology......Page 13
Part I: Azazel......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
The Inheritance of Azazel......Page 25
The Theophany of Azazel......Page 28
The Kavod of Azozel......Page 32
Conclusion......Page 38
Introduction......Page 39
Mosaic Background of Abraham\'s Priestly Initiations and the Day of Atonement......Page 42
From a Sacrificial Animal to a Fallen Angel......Page 47
The Goat for YHWH?......Page 50
Eschatological Lots......Page 51
The High Priest and Azazel......Page 55
Abraham and the Scapegoat......Page 56
Conclusion......Page 58
Introduction......Page 59
The Lost Attires......Page 61
The Garments of Light......Page 63
The Glory of the Fallen Angel......Page 65
The Cultic Significance of the Clothing Metaphors......Page 66
Yom Kippur and the Garden of Eden......Page 68
Ontological Robes......Page 69
Clothes of Ascent......Page 71
Priestly Garments of Abraham......Page 76
Garments of Descent......Page 79
Satan\'s Angelic Garment......Page 81
Satan\'s Theriomorphic Garment......Page 83
Vessels o f Evil: The Antagonist\'s \"Possession\" of the \"Living\" Form......Page 86
Azazel\'s Theriomorphism: From Sacrificial Animal to Fallen Angel......Page 89
The Garment of Darkness......Page 90
The Impure Bird......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 92
Part II: Satanael......Page 95
Introduction......Page 97
2 Enoch 7: The Watchers in the Second Heaven......Page 99
Traces of the Enochic Template......Page 100
Traces of the Adamic Template......Page 102
Traces of the Enochic Template......Page 104
Traces of the Adamic Template......Page 108
The Transitional Template and Its Afterlife in the Shi\'ur Qomah and Hekhalot Accounts......Page 111
Three Watchers......Page 112
Enoch as the Celestial Choirmaster of the Watchers......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 117
The Temptation Story......Page 119
Enigmatic Psychopomp......Page 120
Enochic Descent Traditions......Page 121
The Veneration Motif......Page 122
Negative Transformation......Page 123
Introduction......Page 125
The Paradise Traditions of the Slavonic Version of 3 Baruch......Page 126
The Garden Traditions in the Book of Giants......Page 127
The Angelic Planting of the Garden (3 Baruch 4:7-8)......Page 130
The Flood in the Garden (3 Baruch 4:10-11)......Page 132
The Noachic Narrative (3 Baruch 4:11-15)......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 136
Introduction......Page 139
\"The Likeness of Heaven\"......Page 144
Eschatological Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham......Page 152
The Garment of Azazel in the Apocalypse of Abraham......Page 161
The Watchers of Satanael......Page 171
Satan and the Visionary......Page 180
The Flooded Arboretums......Page 184
I. Texts and Translations......Page 191
II. Secondary Literature......Page 194
Index......Page 209
Back Cover......Page 221