Tag Archives: Andrei Orlov

Dr. Andrei Orlov Provides New Resources on Important Pseudepigraphal Texts

By David Larsen | Published: February 23, 2009
Dr. Andrei Orlov, my professor and academic adviser at Marquette University, has sent me links to some great new resources he has put on the web to assist in the study of pseudepigraphal texts from the Slavonic (old Church Slavic) tradition.  As a recipient of the prestigious Way Klingler Young Scholar award, Dr. Orlov has [...]
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Religious Scholars on the Web

By David Larsen | Published: February 16, 2009
First of all, I would like to apologize for the paucity of posts recently.  I have been very busy with school, as it is the last semester of my MA program and there is a lot of extra work required for graduation. I wanted to share with you some links to some great religious scholars [...]
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Levi’s Initiation into the Angelic Priesthood

By David Larsen | Published: October 7, 2008
10/07/08 This post will cover our class discussion of the Testament of Levi, an important apocalyptic document. I will not go into an overview of all that the document contains of theological interest–there is a vast number of details that could potentially be interesting to the LDS reader. For a great overview of the relevant [...]
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The Human Form on God’s Throne

By David Larsen | Published: October 1, 2008
  Michelangelo’s Depiction of Moses on a Throne The following post represents research I did for Dr. Orlov’s Apocalyptic Literature class in preparation for a presentation I did on themes from the text of an ancient drama known as Exagoge, written by Ezekiel the Tragedian. This text is only known by fragments of the original [...]
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When the Angels Worshipped Adam

By David Larsen | Published: September 26, 2008
September 26, 2008 Earlier on this week in Dr. Orlov’s class we had an absolute smorgasbord of a discussion.  The subject was the text often called The Life of Adam and Eve, known from the many manuscripts extant in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Slavonic, Coptic (fragments), Georgian, and Armenian. This document is an apocryphal [...]
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On 1 Enoch and the Rite of Atonement

By David Larsen | Published: September 20, 2008
This post contains more notes on 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch from Dr. Orlov’s class, plus more interesting passages from the text. I will also look at the role of the angel Asa’el (or Azazel) in the Israelite atonement ritual and his possible connection to the Old Testament scapegoat. Random Notes on the Enochic Tradition Dr. Andrei Orlov suggests that 1 [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: On 1 Enoch

By David Larsen | Published: September 12, 2008
The following notes are representative of what we studied this past week for my Apocalyptic Literature class with Dr. Andrei Orlov. TEXT: 1 Enoch 1-36 = Book of the Watchers. Esp. chs. 14-15 – Enoch’s vision of the Heavenly Temple• Genesis 5-6 (in Hebrew). (You should probably look at these passages first for this post [...]
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Age of the Fathers: History of Religions Debate

By David Larsen | Published: September 8, 2008
I must apologize for have gone for a whole week without posting anything here. I’m still working out some things with the transfer of this blog to a new server–and also still trying to get used to my new schedule of school and seminary teaching. Anyways, I’m back and have more notes to share with [...]
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