Category:3 Enoch (text)

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The Third Book of Enoch / 3 Enoch (or Sepher Hekhalot of R. Ishmael) is a Jewish mystical document of late Antiquity.

Overview

The book tells of the ascent of Rabbi Ishmael to heaven where he receives a series of revelations from the angel Metatron (from the Greek μετὰ ϑρόνῳ "near the throne [of God]"), with whom Enoch has been identified. The work seems to have used various parts of Ethiopic and Slavonic Enoch, though there is no trace of the characteristic ideas of the Parables.

3 Enoch in scholarship

The editio princeps was published in Lemberg in 1864, see ספר היכלות מהתנא רבי ישמעאל כהן גדול (Sepher Hekhalot of R. Ishmael / 1864), book. Adolph Jellinek published excerpts of it in 1873; see Beth ha-Midrasch (1853–78 Jellinek), book. The first scholarly edition is that of Odeberg in 1928.

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