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{en} Grant Macaskill. The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill,, 2024).

Abstract

"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." --

Contents

The entangled Enoch -- Reviewing the provenance of 2 Enoch -- Reviewing the date, provenance and composition history of the parables of Enoch -- Storehouses and measures: parallel patterns in metrology and meteorology in the parables of Enoch and 2 (Slavonic) Enoch -- God, Enoch and the secrets: theology, cosmology, cosmogony, eschatology -- God, wisdom and humanity in the parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch -- Bodily ascents and ontological transformations -- Practical and symbolic liturgy, votive offerings, and the cult of the One God in 2 Enoch -- Animal offerings and ritual theorizing in 2 Enoch -- Concluding synthesis: the entangled Enoch.

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