Second Enoch

A Samaritan Apocalypse
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71450-2
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Reihe: Studia Judaeoslavica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Daniel C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

1 Text and Date

2 Place

3 Organization of the Present Study

Part 1: Evidence for Samaritan Authorship

1 Samaritan Biblical Exegesis in 2 Enoch …

1 “The LORD Will Not Judge a Single Animal Soul” (2 En. 58:4)

2 The Avenger on the Day (2 En. 50:4)

3 Midrash on the Creation

4 The Missing Scriptures

5 The Missing Temples

2 Binding by Four Legs (2 En. 59:3–4; 69:12)

1 The Akedah

3 The Place Akhuzan (2 En. 64:2–3; 68:5; 69:3; 70:17; 71:35)

1 “The Meadow of Glory”

4 The Visible and the Invisible

5 The Guardians of the Land (2 En. 35:2)

6 Enoch as (the Samaritan) Moses

1 “Man of God”

2 “Who Carries Away Our Sins”

3 “Stand in Front of the Face of the LORD Forever”

4 “Like One of the Glorious Ones”

5 “I Saw the LORD”

7 A Samaritan Origin for the Exagoge of Ezekiel

1 Stronger Arguments

2 The Evidence of 2 En. 39:5–40:5

8 Further Signs of Samaritanism in 2 Enoch

1 The Watcher Myth

2 The Creation Midrash (2 En. 24:2–33:4)

3 Insulting the Face of God

4 Curses and Blessings

5 The Elders of the People (2 En. 57:1–2; 64:3; 69:1, 7–8, 11; 70:11)

6 Escape to Eden

7 The Essential Theology of 2 Enoch and Samaritanism

Part 2: The Purposes of the Apocalypse

9 The Context of 2 Enoch: the Dosithean Controversies

1 To Sacrifice or Not to Sacrifice

2 The Lamp and the Tabernacle

3 The Place of Sacrifice

10 Dosithean Counterattack: the Asatir

1 A Tale of Two Ephods

2 A Tale of Two Altars

11 The Melchizedekian Priesthood

1 The Priestly Line in 2 Enoch: Three Peculiarities

2 Chains of Twelve Priests

Afterword

Appendix: Macaskill’s Entangled Enoch

Bibliography

Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel C. Olson, Ph.D. (2010), now retired, was formerly Lecturer in Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College (Moraga, CA) and teacher at Live Oak Academy (Santa Clara, CA). He has published numerous books and articles on 1 Enoch, including Enoch: A New Translation (BIBAL Press, 2004) and A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch: ‘All Nations Shall be Blessed’ (Brill, 2013).