The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity - (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha) by Grant Macaskill (Hardcover)

About the Book

This study reframes and reorients the discussion of 2 Enoch, away from standard accounts of Jewish or Christian authorship, arguing that its features reflect the eclectic and philosophically erudite religious culture of Syria or Babylonia in late antiquity.

Book Synopsis

This study reframes and reorients the study of 2 Enoch, moving beyond debates about Christian or Jewish authorship and considering the work in the context of eclectic and erudite cultures in late antiquity, particularly Syria. The study compares the work with the Parables of Enoch and then with a variety of writings associated with late antique Syrian theology, demonstrating the distinctively eclectic character of 2 Enoch. It offers new paradigms for research into the pseudepigrapha.