........... III. Re-enactment of the Yom Kippur Festival in the Apocalypse of Abraham: The Scapegoat Ritual The High Priest and Azazel Like in the Enochic tradition where the profiles of both protagonists and antagonists often reveal their cultic affiliations, in the Slavonic apocalypse too both Azazel and Abraham are envisioned as priestly figures. As has already been mentioned, this sacerdotal vision permeates the fabric of the entire pseudepigraphon, in which all main characters... read more
