This study marks a bold new departure in 2 Enoch studies. The book has long been regarded as one of the most baffling apocalypses to come down to us from antiquity. The present work argues that 2 Enoch was written by a 1st c. CE Samaritan author whose purpose was to incorporate the Enochic tradition into Samaritanism. By identifying Enoch as the “prophet like Moses” (Deut. 18:15, 18), both during his earthly past and in the eschatological future, the author of 2 Enoch hoped to combat the Dosithean heresy and also to persuade co-religionists to resume a full sacrificial cultus in the shadow of Mt. Gerizim.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789004714502
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-04-71450-2
- Verlag: Brill
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.12.2024
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2024
- Serie: Studia Judaeoslavica
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Seiten: 210
- Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt