Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Between God and Satan: Inauguration into the Divine Image in Early Jewish and Christian Accounts
2. Furnace that Kills and Furnace that Gives Life: Fiery Trials and Martyrdom in the Apocalypse of Abraham
3. Leviathan's Knot: The High Priest's Sash as a Cosmological Symbol
4. Apocalyptic Scapegoat Traditions in the Book of Revelation
5. Azazel's Will: Internalization of Evil in the Apocalypse of Abraham
6. Glorification through Fear in 2 Enoch
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of The Greatest Mirror: Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha; Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism; and Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology, all published by SUNY Press.