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This chapter of my new book "The Greatest Mirror" deals with Enochic pseudepigrapha, including early booklets of the so-called 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch: the Book of the Watchers, the Animal Apocalypse, and the Book of the Similitudes. It also closely examines the heavenly counterpart traditions in 2 Enoch and in Sefer Hekhalot, or 3 Enoch, a text in which the supreme angel Metatron was fashioned as Enoch’s doppelganger. The study explores the imagery of the “youth” which in the Enochic pseudepigrapha becomes envisioned as the human protagonist’s heavenly alter ego. Although the main focus of our study is on early Jewish pseudepigraphical materials, relevant Christian, “Gnostic,” Mandaean, Manichaean, and rabbinic accounts are also taken into consideration.
... The contrast between the illicit and legitimate transmissions of knowledge is communicated by the gender differences of the revelations’ recipients. While the Watchers deliver some of their forbidden knowledge to women, God and his envoy, Uriel, reveal legitimate secrets only to a male recipient – Enoch. This inverse gender pattern is reaffirmed in Enoch’s transmission of divine knowledge: he directs his knowledge only to male recipients – Methuselah and “his sons.” In both cases, the divine knowledge is transmitted in part through familial social networks. While in Enoch’s case it is dispersed exclusively to male family members, the Watchers’ illicit secrets are transmitted, among others, to female family members (the Watchers’ wives), which reflects the gender dimension previously discerned.
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This article takes up the distinctive text of Synkellos for 1 En. 8:1 and asks whether it offers the preferred reading or at least may be defended as an early variant rather than as an interpolation of the Byzantine chronographer. To that end, the article examines the Greek translation featured in Synkellos's Chronography and compares the text to other manuscript traditions, especially to the Aramaic fragments of Enoch found in Cave 4 of Qumran. Close examination leaves the author reluctant to dismiss the reading of Synkellos. Further, the author argues that Genesis 4 and 6 might have provided a warrant for this sort of interpretative tradition inasmuch as culture bringers (i.e. the Cainites) precede the account of the angels' descent and mating with women as one finds in Synkellos's version of 1 En. 8:1.
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