Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity

Description:

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the CfUsons of God' of Gen 6:14 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In the process, it explores issues such as the role of text-selection in the delineation of community boundaries and the development of early Jewish and Christian ideas about the origins of evil on the earth.

subjects: Angels,  Apocalyptic literature,  Bible,  Christianity,  Christianity and other religions,  Church history,  Criticism, interpretation,  Early Christian literature,  Ethiopic book of Enoch VI-XXXVI,  History and criticism,  Judaism,  Nonfiction,  Relations,  Religion & Spirituality,  Histoire,  Histoire et critique,  Littérature apocalyptique,  Critique, interprétation,  Interfaith relations,  Apokalyptik,  Église,  Genesis (Bible book),  Judentum,  Äthiopisches Henochbuch,  Primitive and early church,  Interpretation,  Judaïsme,  Littérature chrétienne primitive,  11.37 Apocrypha and pseudepigraphs,  Livre d'Hénoch (éthiopien),  11.27 relation Judaism-Christianity,  Rezeption,  I Enoch,  Anges,  Christianisme,  Frühchristentum

Times: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600