Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity

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This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the CfUsons of God' of Gen 6:14 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. In the process, it explores issues such as the role of text-selection in the delineation of community boundaries and the development of early Jewish and Christian ideas about the origins of evil on the earth.

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Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity
2007, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity
Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity: the reception of Enochic literature
2005, Cambridge University Press
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November 19, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
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