Enoch's use of the Bible

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I am looking for a way to explore Enoch's use of the Bible. Any advice?

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 3,087

    Can we assume you don't think Jude was correct ... Enoch indeed wrote Enoch?  Long before Moses.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,102

    Two answers as I don't know which you mean:

    1. Enoch the man predates any written scripture and what scripture says about him is too limited to provide any basis for any answer re: orally transmitted scripture.
    2. If you mean the apocryphal Book of Enoch, in some traditions it has been considered scripture; in the majority of traditions it is not. Some texts on intertextuality in apocryphal literature should provide examples. Commentaries on the book will also contain information e.g. the two volumes Nickelsburg, George W. E. 1 Enoch: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch. Edited by Klaus Baltzer. Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2001.

    But the obvious answer to your question is to begin by reading the Enochian literature in multiple translations, followed by Nickelsburg, by which time you should know from bibliographies and references where you would like to go next.

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