The Gods of My Father Terah’: Abraham the Iconoclast and the Polemics with the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham

The first eight chapters of the Apocalypse of Abraham recount the early years of the young hero of the faith who is depicted as a fighter against the idolatrous practices of his father Terah. The conceptual developments found in this section of the work, especially in the depictions of the idolatrous statues, seem to play an important role in the work\u27s overall retraction of the anthropomorphic understanding of the deity. In the depictions of the idol Bar-Eshath (`the Son of Fire\u27) and some other human-like figures, whose features are vividly reminiscent of the familiar attributes of the anthropomorphic portrayals of the deity in Ezekiel and some other biblical and pseudepigraphical accounts, one can detect subtle polemics with the divine body traditions. This article investigates these conceptual developments in the Apocalypse of Abraham and seeks to understand their place in the larger anti-corporeal ideology of the Slavonic pseudepigraphon

Smooth and proper noncommutative schemes and gluing of DG categories

In this paper we discuss different properties of noncommutative schemes over a field. We define a noncommutative scheme as a differential graded category of a special type. We study regularity, smoothness and properness for noncommutative schemes. Admissible subcategories of categories of perfect complexes on smooth projective schemes provide natural examples of smooth and proper noncommutative schemes that are called geometric noncommutative schemes. In this paper we show that the world of all geometric noncommutative schemes is closed under an operation of a gluing of differential graded categories via bimodules. As a consequence of the main theorem we obtain that for any finite dimensional algebra with separable semisimple part the category of perfect complexes over it is equivalent to a full subcategory of the category of perfect complexes on a smooth projective scheme. Moreover, if the algebra has finite global dimension, then the full subcategory is admissible. We also provide a construction of a smooth projective scheme that admits a full exceptional collection and contains as a subcollection an exceptional collection given in advance. As another application of the main theorem we obtain, in characteristic 0, an existence of a full embedding for the category of perfect complexes on any proper scheme to the category of perfect complexes on a smooth projective scheme.Comment: 43 pages, small corrections, a new formulation and proof of Proposition 3.2