TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Böttrich, Christfried
T1  - A New Approach to the Apocryphal Ladder of Jacob
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JF  - Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
N2  - For a long time the apocryphal Ladder of Jacob was accessible only in arbitrarily selected translations. Without a critical edition and a comprehensive study of the whole textual segment, scholars were unable to evaluate its significance for Early Jewish and Christian literature. Since 2015/17, with the publication of a new critical edition and German translation (accompanied by a detailed introduction, footnote commentaries and appendices with related texts), a new approach to this important but hitherto widely unknown text has been made possible. This approach verifies the different layers or strata in the text, which are: a supposed Jewish apocalypse (mid-second century), a Christian expansion of the angels speech in light of the praeparatio evangelica tradition (fourth–seventh centuries), a Jewish mystical prayer (eleventh century) and the incorporation of this narrative block into the Tolkovaja Paleja together with a series of exegetical commentaries (end of the thirteenth century). In the light of the new approach, it can be said that the Ladder of Jacob is most of all an outstanding example of mutual relations between Jewish and Christian theology.
KW  - -
KW  - Ladder of Jacob
KW  - Jewish apocalypticism
KW  - literature
KW  - Slavonic apocrypha
KW  - messianic tradition
KW  - mystical prayer
KW  - Narration of Afroditian
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-36407
SN  - 0951-8207
SS  - 0951-8207
SN  - 1745-5286
SS  - 1745-5286
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0951820719832428
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0951820719832428
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
SP  - 171
EP  - 181
PB  - SAGE Publications
CY  - Sage UK: London, England
ER  -