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{en} Daniel C. Olson. Second Enoch: A Samaritan apocalypse (Leiden: Brill,, 2025).

Abstract

"This study marks a bold new departure in 2 Enoch studies. The book has long been regarded as one of the most baffling apocalypses to come down to us from antiquity. The present work argues that 2 Enoch was written by a 1st c. CE Samaritan author whose purpose was to incorporate the Enochic tradition into Samaritanism. By identifying Enoch as the "prophet like Moses" (Deut. 18:15, 18), both during his earthly past and in the eschatological future, the author of 2 Enoch hoped to combat the Dosithean heresy and also to persuade co-religionists to resume a full sacrificial cultus in the shadow of Mt. Gerizim"--

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Text and Date -- 2 Place -- 3 Organization of the Present Study -- Part 1: Evidence for Samaritan Authorship -- 1 Samaritan Biblical Exegesis in 2 Enoch ... -- 1 "The LORD Will Not Judge a Single Animal Soul" (2 En. 58:4) -- 2 The Avenger on the Day (2 En. 50:4) -- 3 Midrash on the Creation -- 4 The Missing Scriptures -- 5 The Missing Temples -- 2 Binding by Four Legs (2 En. 59:3-4; 69:12) -- 1 The Akedah -- 3 The Place Akhuzan (2 En. 64:2-3; 68:5; 69:3; 70:17; 71:35) -- 1 "The Meadow of Glory" -- 4 The Visible and the Invisible -- 5 The Guardians of the Land (2 En. 35:2) -- 6 Enoch as (the Samaritan) Moses -- 1 "Man of God" -- 2 "Who Carries Away Our Sins" -- 3 "Stand in Front of the Face of the LORD Forever" -- 4 "Like One of the Glorious Ones" -- 5 "I Saw the LORD" -- 7 A Samaritan Origin for the Exagoge of Ezekiel -- 1 Stronger Arguments -- 2 The Evidence of 2 En. 39:5-40:5 -- 8 Further Signs of Samaritanism in 2 Enoch -- 1 The Watcher Myth -- 2 The Creation Midrash (2 En. 24:2-33:4) -- 3 Insulting the Face of God -- 4 Curses and Blessings -- 5 The Elders of the People (2 En. 57:1-2; 64:3; 69:1, 7-8, 11; 70:11) -- 6 Escape to Eden -- 7 The Essential Theology of 2 Enoch and Samaritanism -- Part 2: The Purposes of the Apocalypse -- 9 The Context of 2 Enoch: the Dosithean Controversies -- 1 To Sacrifice or Not to Sacrifice -- 2 The Lamp and the Tabernacle -- 3 The Place of Sacrifice -- 10 Dosithean Counterattack: the Asatir -- 1 A Tale of Two Ephods -- 2 A Tale of Two Altars -- 11 The Melchizedekian Priesthood -- 1 The Priestly Line in 2 Enoch: Three Peculiarities -- 2 Chains of Twelve Priests -- Afterword -- Appendix: Macaskill's Entangled Enoch -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors.

External links

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