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Episode 51·December 26, 2018·hellenistic
Enoch and the Book of Watchers
‘And Enoch walked with God, and was not; for God took him.’
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Primary Sources
The Book of Enoch
Henoch · 1901 · German · 188 pages
This volume reconstructs a lost apocalyptic world through a rigorous examination of ancient Ethiopic and Greek manuscripts. It details how the Watchers descended from heaven to corrupt humanity, creating a lineage of giants and the spirits of evil that haunt existence. Beyond the mythology, the text
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1 Enoch (Ethiopic Text)
R.H. Charles (ed.) · 1906 · Ethiopic · 282 pages
R.H. Charles’s monumental edition of 1 Enoch offers a rigorous philological reconstruction of one of antiquity's most influential and suppressed texts. Through an exhaustive collation of Ethiopic manuscripts and Greek fragments, Charles argues for a complex Semitic origin, revealing a worldview wher
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