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“Two Powers in Heaven” is a category for books that explore the ancient Jewish debate over divine plurality—known in rabbinic literature as shtei reshutot ba-shamayim—and its wider implications in late Second Temple and early rabbinic thought. Titles in this category examine how ideas of a “second” heavenly power or mediator (e.g., Logos, Wisdom, the Son of Man, Metatron) emerged in apocalyptic, mystical, and philosophical texts, and how these ideas intersected with early Christian Christology and gnostic traditions. The focus spans historical and theological studies, translations and commentaries on primary sources (such as Philo, the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch, Targums, and rabbinic tractates), and comparative works on binitarian or dual-power motifs in late antiquity. Overall, the category centers on the boundaries of monotheism, the making of orthodoxy and heresy, and the role of exalted intermediaries in shaping Jewish and Christian conceptions of God.

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