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Reversing Hermon is a groundbreaking work. It unveils what most in the modern Church have never heard regarding how the story of the sin of the Watchers in 1 Enoch 6–16 helped frame the mission of Jesus, the messiah. Jews of the first century expected the messiah to reverse the impact of the Watchers’ transgression. For Jews of Jesus’ day, the Watchers were part of the explanation for why the...

It won’t seem unusual that we begin our study in Genesis 6:1–4. After all, that’s the passage behind the story of the sin of the Watchers in 1 Enoch. But it is perhaps unexpected that we’ll also be spending a good deal of time looking at ancient Mesopotamia. As we’ll see, Genesis 6:1–4 and the story of the Watchers have deep roots in Mesopotamian literature. This is a fact with which scholars of 1 Enoch are well-acquainted, but
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