Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature

Abstract

Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Angelic descent and apocalyptic epistemology: the teachings of Enoch and the Fallen Angels in the Book of Watchers 2. From scribalism to sectarianism: the angelic descent myth and the social settings of Enochic pseudepigraphy 3. Primordial history and the problem of evil: Genesis, the Book of Watchers, and the fallen angels in pre-Rabbinic Judaism 4. The parting of the ways? Enoch and the Fallen Angels in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity 5. Demonology and the construction of Christian identity: approaches to illicit angelic instruction among proto-Orthodox Christians 6. The interpenetration of Jewish and Christian traditions in late antiquity: the exegesis of genesis and the marginalization of Enochic literature 7. The apocalyptic roots of Merkabah Mysticism? The reemergence of Enochic traditions in post-Talmudic Judaism Epilogue Bibliography.

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