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The first comprehensive examination of the Book of Enoch and its prophecies, origins, and history
• Examines in depth Enoch's full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge
• Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology
• Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic "Book of the Secrets of Enoch") and the so-called Hebrew "Book of Enoch" (3 Enoch)
Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical.
Revealing the profound influence of the Book of Enoch on world thought over the past two thousand years, Tobias Churton investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic "Book of the Secrets of Enoch") and the so-called Hebrew "Book of Enoch" (3 Enoch). He explains how Enoch was taken to Heaven where he received personal instruction from God and examines in depth Enoch's full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge. He explains how the Book was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism and speculative Jewish mysticism, playing a key role in the development of both the Kabbalah and Gnostic mythology.
Informed by continuing studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Churton provides the first comprehensive examination of the Book of Enoch, clarifying and refuting many errors of understanding about Enoch's apocalyptic and sometimes sensational prophecies.
Contents
Foreword by Jeffrey J. Bütz
Preface
PART ONE
Out of Ethiopia
ONE
Bruce
TWO
A Long Time Coming
THREE
1 Enoch
A Note on Translation
Introduction (chapters 1-5)
The Book of the Watchers
The Astronomical Book
Dream Visions (chapters 83-90)
The Epistle of Enoch (chapters 91-105)
Fragment from a Book of Noah (chapters 106-107)
An Addition (chapter 108)
FOUR
The Book of Enoch 2
The Similitudes or Parables of Enoch (chapters 37-71)
Finale
FIVE
Further Adventures of 1 Enoch
Enter R. H. Charles
PART TWO
The Qumran Explosion
SIX
AMAZING DISCOVERIES
The Enoch Seminar
The Essene Hypothesis
Josephus and the Essenes
The Enochic-Essene Hypothesis
A New Age at Dan?
Damascus
PART THREE
Enoch's Reception in History
SEVEN
Enoch Received 1
The Book of Jubilees
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
EIGHT
The Epistle of Jude
1 Peter, 2 Peter, and 1 Enoch
NINE
2 Enoch
Ten Heavens
2 Enoch Bounces Back—in Coptic!
TEN
Testimony to Enoch from Church Fathers,
or . . . Enoch Gets Around
ELEVEN
Panopolis: Zosimos, Enoch, and Hermes Trismegistos
Zosimos of Panopolis: Scourge of Demons
TWELVE
Hermes Trismegistos and Enoch
A Jewish Temple . . . in Egypt
THIRTEEN
Ethiopia
FOURTEEN
3 Enoch: Enoch-Metatron, Hero of Jewish Mysticism
Merkaba and Hekhalot Mysticism
Metatron
FIFTEEN
Enoch in Medieval Islamic Traditions
SIXTEEN
"Holy Enoch" and the Renaissance
Lodovico Lazzarelli and Divine Regeneration
Lazzarelli and Enoch
SEVENTEEN
John Dee, Guillaume Postel, and the Book of Enoch
Enter John Dee
EIGHTEEN
A Rosicrucian Fludd and Freemasonry
Interlude: The First Commentary on 1 Enoch
by Pompeo Sarnelli (1710)
Enter the Grand Lodge
NINETEEN
Prophets and Magic Galore
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley
PART FOUR
Enoch and Christian Origins
TWENTY
The Son of Man and Gospel Echoes
Son of Man and Hermetic Poimandrēs
Enoch, Priesthood, and Jesus
TWENTY-ONE
Enoch and Christian Origins II: Jesus
Oppression in Galilee?
Yeshua ben Yosef (a Hypothesis)
More to Nazareth than Meets the Eye
TWENTY-TWO
Further Enochic Adventures in Galilee
The Hypothesis Continued
Jesus's Anti-Demon Operation
Ethics and Vision
Back to Dan with the Son of Man—the Profound Ascent
A Personal Coda
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
