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Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity [electronic resource] : the reception of Enochic literature / Annette Yoshiko Reed.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.Description: xii, 318 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780511345227 (electronic bk.)
  • 0511345224 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 229/.913 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1830.E7 R43 2005eb
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Contents:
Angelic descent and apocalyptic epistemology : the teachings of Enoch and the fallen angels in the Book of the watchers -- From scribalism to sectarianism : the angelic descent myth and the social settings of Enochic pseudepigraphy -- Primeval history and the problem of evil : Genesis, the Book of the watchers, and the fallen angels in pre-Rabbinic Judaism -- The parting of the ways? : Enoch and the fallen angels in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity -- Demonology and the construction of Christian identity : approaches to illicit angelic instruction among proto-Orthodox Christians -- The interpenetration of Jewish and Christian traditions : the exegesis of Genesis and the marginalization of Enochic literature -- The apocalyptic roots of Merkabah mysticism? : the reemergence of Enochic traditions in Rabbinic Judaism -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-296) and indexes.

Angelic descent and apocalyptic epistemology : the teachings of Enoch and the fallen angels in the Book of the watchers -- From scribalism to sectarianism : the angelic descent myth and the social settings of Enochic pseudepigraphy -- Primeval history and the problem of evil : Genesis, the Book of the watchers, and the fallen angels in pre-Rabbinic Judaism -- The parting of the ways? : Enoch and the fallen angels in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity -- Demonology and the construction of Christian identity : approaches to illicit angelic instruction among proto-Orthodox Christians -- The interpenetration of Jewish and Christian traditions : the exegesis of Genesis and the marginalization of Enochic literature -- The apocalyptic roots of Merkabah mysticism? : the reemergence of Enochic traditions in Rabbinic Judaism -- Epilogue.

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