Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity

Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity

The Reception of Enochic Literature

by Annette Yoshiko Reed

318 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780521853781
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This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations through a focus on the fallen angels. The book of Genesis tersely refers to "sons of God" marrying "daughters of men" in the days before the Flood. The nature of their sins is explored in the Book of the Watchers, an apocalypse from the third century BCE, written in the name of Enoch. This apocalypse accuses the fallen angels of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. Wayward angels are here blamed for the very origins of evil on the earth.

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