For a long time the apocryphal Ladder of Jacob was accessible only in arbitrarily selected translations. Without a critical edition and a comprehensive study of the whole textual segment, scholars were unable to evaluate its significance for Early Jewish and Christian literature. Since 2015/17, with the publication of a new critical edition and German translation (accompanied by a detailed introduction, footnote commentaries and appendices with related texts), a new approach to this important but hitherto widely unknown text has been made possible. This approach verifies the different layers or strata in the text, which are: a supposed Jewish apocalypse (mid-second century), a Christian expansion of the angels speech in light of the praeparatio evangelica tradition (fourth–seventh centuries), a Jewish mystical prayer (eleventh century) and the incorporation of this narrative block into the Tolkovaja Paleja together with a series of exegetical commentaries (end of the thirteenth century). In the light of the new approach, it can be said that the Ladder of Jacob is most of all an outstanding example of mutual relations between Jewish and Christian theology.

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雅各布的伪梯的新方法

长期以来，雅各的隐密阶梯只能通过任意选择的翻译来访问。没有批判版和对整个文本部分的全面研究，学者们无法评估其对早期犹太和基督教文学的意义。自2015/17年以来，随着新的重要版本和德语翻译的发布（伴随详细的介绍，脚注评论和带有相关文本的附录），已经有可能采用一种新的方法来处理这一重要但迄今广为人知的文本。这种方法验证了文本中的不同层次或层次，这些层次或层次是：假定的犹太启示录（第二世纪中叶），根据福音传教法的传统（第四至第七个世纪），基督教徒对天使的讲话进行了扩展，犹太神秘祈祷（十一世纪），并将这一叙事结合到托尔科瓦娅·帕莱亚（Tolkovaja Paleja）中，并附有一系列释经评论（十三世纪末）。根据新的方法，可以说雅各之梯是犹太人和基督教神学之间相互关系的最杰出例子。