This volume represents the first attempt to study Slavonic pseudepigrapha collectively as a unique group of texts that share common theophanic and mediatorial imagery crucial for the development of early Jewish mysticism.

Andrei A. Orlov, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, and Ph.D. (2003) in Theology, Marquette University, is an Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at Marquette University. He has published extensively on the Old Testament pseudepigrapha including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Mohr-Siebeck, 2005).