Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521853781)

In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the "sons of God" of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Author: Annette Yoshiko Reed
ISBN-10: 0521853788
ISBN-13: 9780521853781
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.36w x 1.02d