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Andrey Orlov, known as Orlusha (2 November 1957) is a Russian poet, journalist and scriptwriter. Political views. During Russo-Georgian War in 2008 he wore T-shirt saying „I am Georgian“ and wrote poems satirizing Russian leadership because of its policy towards Georgia.
Andrei A. Orlov is an American professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He "is a specialist in Jewish Apocalypticism and Mysticism, Second Temple Judaism, and Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.
- Moscow University
- Institute of Sociology
- Abilene Christian University
- Marquette University
- The New History of Religions School
- The Enoch Seminar
- The Theophaneia School
- New Vision of The Origins of Early Jewish Mysticism
- Studies in Jewish and Christian Demonology
- Study of The Concept of The Heavenly Double
After his military service, Orlov entered the Journalism Department of one of the best educational institutions of the former Soviet Union—the Moscow State University. As the leading university of the Soviet Union at that time, and especially in its Journalism Department, the Moscow State University was a special place where political elites of the...
After completing his B.A. degree in Journalism at the Moscow State University in 1986, Orlov, under Grushin’s guidance, entered a Ph D. program at the Institute of Sociology in the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main academic institution for sociology in the former Soviet Union. In 1990 he completed his doctoral studies, defending a Ph.D. dissert...
The year of Orlov’s Ph.D. defense was also laden with profound changes in the Soviet Union’s political situation, as Yeltzin’s reforms finally opened the Iron Curtain for Russian scholars. Encouraged by this opportunity, Orlov decided to continue his academic studies abroad by pursuing a degree in theology in the USA. In the Fall of 1991, he was ad...
In 1998, Orlov entered a Ph. D. program at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). The time which he spent at Marquette, first as a Ph.D. student and then as a faculty member, became the most stimulating and rewarding scholarly environment of his life, where his earlier ideas eventually crystalized into many books and articles. Here, under the...
Already during his graduate studies at ACU, Orlov began to realize the limitations of modern historic-critical approaches to the study of biblical and pseudepigraphical texts. He began turning his attention to in-depth investigations of premodern modes of biblical interpretation practiced in ancient communities of faith, including midrash and patri...
Another important scholarly group that exercised its influence on Orlov’s work and his approach to Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical traditions was the Enoch Seminar. Founded in 2000 by Gabriele Boccaccini, it represented a scholarly forum where international experts who specialized in different trends of Jewish and Christian studies ha...
Another important aspect of Orlov’s scholarship pertains to the exploration of the Jewish roots of Eastern Christian mysticism and its connection with early Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism. This quest for the underlying Jewish matrix of Eastern Orthodox theology and spirituality was influenced by Orlov’s interaction and collaboration with Fr. A...
In the field of the Jewish pseudepigrapha preserved in the Slavonic language, most of Orlov’s work is concentrated on two early Jewish apocalypses—2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham, in which Jewish angelological and demonological beliefs had reached their important conceptual thresholds. These two documents also contain unique constellations of...
Another important aspect of Orlov’s research is related to the study of Jewish and Christian demonological traditions. In the last decade he produced several studies on demonological subjects, including his books Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology (Albany: SUNY, 2011), Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mys...
Orlov offers an in-depth analysis of this symmetry of earthly and heavenly realities in his another monograph -- The Greatest Mirror: Heavenly Counterparts in Jewish Pseudepigrapha(Albany: SUNY, 2017). In this book, he analyzes the symbolism of the heavenly double in various Jewish pseudoepigraphical accounts. Orlov became interested in the topic o...
Feb 1, 2021 · Andrei Orlov examines the tradition about the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, tracing its development from its roots in the Mesopotamian lore to the Second Temple apocalyptic texts and later rabbinic and Hekhalot materials where Enoch is often identified as the supreme angel Metatron.
Andrei Orlov. Marquette University, andrei.orlov@marquette.edu. Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac. Part of the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons. Recommended Citation.
Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, Theology Department, Faculty Member. Studies Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). His particular.
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