Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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The books of Enoch were among the long-lost heritage of ancient Judaism recovered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. What they told of fallen angels, demons, the origins of evil, and the end of the world was popular among ancient Jews, including the first followers of Jesus, and Enochic books were even quoted by Jude and defended by early Christians like Tertullian. Yet the very apocalypticism that made them appealing in the Second Temple period (538 BCE-70 CE) caused their rejection by Rabbis in the second century and by Church Fathers like Athanasius and Augustine in the fourth and fifth. As a result, these writings virtually disappeared from historical view until James Bruce’s 1773 discovery of manuscripts of
Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian past…
Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
The books of Enoch were among the long-lost heritage of ancient Judaism recovered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. What they told of fallen angels, demons, the origins of evil, and the end of the world was popular among ancient Jews, including the first followers of Jesus, and Enochic books were even quoted by Jude and defended by early Christians like Tertullian. Yet the very apocalypticism that made them appealing in the Second Temple period (538 BCE-70 CE) caused their rejection by Rabbis in the second century and by Church Fathers like Athanasius and Augustine in the fourth and fifth. As a result, these writings virtually disappeared from historical view until James Bruce’s 1773 discovery of manuscripts of