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The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, leading scholars explore the contours of the Watchers traditions throughout history, tracing their development through the Enoch literature, Jubilees, and other early Jewish and Christian writings. At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the “sons of God” who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the...

Results of ethical impurities are summarized in Lev. 18:27–30: “The people who were there before you did those abominable things and the land became unclean. So do not let the land spew you out for making it unclean as it spewed them out. Observe my charge, therefore.”18 Qumran texts enrich the biblical theory of impurities.19 The sins of the Watchers are their transgression of the cosmic order and mixing with earthly women, and their teaching of magic. They became impure by this process (1 En. 7:1;
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