God S Court And Courtiers In The Book Of The Watchers
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God s Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers
Author | : Philip Francis Esler |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781625649089 |
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First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1–36 tell the story of the descent of angels called “Watchers” from heaven to earth to marry human women before the time of the flood, the chaos that ensued, and God’s response. They also relate the journeying of the righteous scribe Enoch through the cosmos, guided by angels. Heaven, including the place and those who dwell there (God, the angels, and Enoch), plays a central role in the narrative. But how should heaven be understood? Existing scholarship, which presupposes “Judaism” as the appropriate framework, views the Enochic heaven as reflecting the temple in Jerusalem, with God’s house replicating its architecture and the angels and Enoch functioning like priests. Yet recent research shows the Judeans constituted an ethnic group, and this view encourages a fresh examination of 1 Enoch 1–36. The actual model for heaven proves to be a king in his court surrounded by his courtiers. The major textual features are explicable in this perspective, whereas the temple-and-priests model is unconvincing. The author was a member of a nontemple, scribal group in Judea that possessed distinctive astronomical knowledge, promoted Enoch as its exemplar, and was involved in the wider sociopolitical world of their time.
The Entangled Enoch 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity
Author | : Grant Macaskill |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2024-05-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004695092 |
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This study reframes and reorients the study of 2 Enoch, moving beyond debates about Christian or Jewish authorship and considering the work in the context of eclectic and erudite cultures in late antiquity, particularly Syria. The study compares the work with the Parables of Enoch and then with a variety of writings associated with late antique Syrian theology, demonstrating the distinctively eclectic character of 2 Enoch. It offers new paradigms for research into the pseudepigrapha.
The Oxford Handbook of Deification
Author | : Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2024-09-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780198865179 |
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This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.
Priesthood Cult and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran
Author | : Robert E. Jones |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2023-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004546165 |
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The Hellenistic period was a pivotal moment in the history of the Jewish priesthood. The waning days of the Persian empire coincided with the continued ascendance of the high priest and Jerusalem temple as powerful political, cultural, and religious institutions in Judea. The Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran, only recently published in full, testify to the existence of a flourishing but previously unknown Jewish literary tradition dating from the end of Persian rule to the rise of the Hasmoneans. Throughout this book, Robert Jones analyzes how Israel’s priestly institutions are represented in these writings, and he demonstrates that they are essential for understanding the Jewish priesthood at this crucial stage in its history.
Angels Associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author | : Matthew L. Walsh |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161553035 |
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A well-known characteristic of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls are their assertions that membership in the Qumran movement included present and eschatological fellowship with the angels, but scholars disagree as to the precise meaning of these claims. To gain a better understanding of angelic fellowship at Qumran, Matthew L. Walsh utilizes the early Jewish concept that certain angels were closely associated with Israel. Moreover, these angels, which included guardians and priests, were envisioned within apocalyptic worldviews that assumed that realities on earth corresponded to those of the heavenly realm. A comparison of non-sectarian texts with sectarian compositions reveals that the Qumran movement's lofty assertions of communion with the guardians and priests of heavenly Israel would have made a significant contribution to their identity as the true Israel.
John within Judaism
Author | : Wally V. Cirafesi |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004462946 |
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In John within Judaism Wally V. Cirafesi offers a reading of the Gospel of John as an expression of the fluid and flexible nature of Jewish ethnic identity in Greco-Roman antiquity.
The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
Author | : Ian Boxall,Bradley C. Gregory |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2022-10-31 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781108490924 |
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This volume provides an up-to-date introduction to the diverse ways the Bible is being interpreted by scholars in the field.
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
Author | : Colin McAllister |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781108422703 |
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Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.