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1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37–82 is unavailable, but you can change that!

1 Enoch presents interpreters with a complex knot of interrelated puzzles concerning the history of early Judaism, the trajectories of wisdom and apocalyptic traditions, and the role of astronomical observation in cosmological speculation—all tied up with the bewildering history of the book’s composition and transmission, in different languages and manuscript traditions, over centuries. Two of...

by an angel who is accompanying him (40:2, 8; 43:3; 46:2; 52:3; 53:4; 54:4; 56:2; 60:11, 24 [an interpolation]; 61:2, 3; and presumably 64:2). This revelatory device, which is embedded in a common form (vision—seer’s question—angelic interpretation), is one of the Parables’ borrowings from the Book of the Watchers (see §3.2.3.1 above, pp. 22–23) and is one of the means by which the author emphasizes the apocalyptic (revelatory) character of his composition. Thus, in a phenomenal world of evil and
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