Die Beschwörungsserie Bīt mēseri und die Himmelfahrt Henochs

Borger, Rykle

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“…102 Borger has therefore argued that this element was taken from Enmeduranki's sage Utuabzu. 103 His argument has, however, not closed the debate since it is not evident that Utuabzu was definitively transferred. 104 In contrast, VanderKam and Day have cautiously proposed a parallel to the taking away of the Mesopotamian Flood hero.…”

Section: The Mesopotamian Flood Heromentioning

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Where Are You, Enoch? Why Can’t I Find You? Genesis 5:21–24 Reconsidered

Hoopen

2018

JHS

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In this article, the Enoch passage in Genesis 5:21–24 is examined both within the immediate context of Gen 5 as well as within its ancient Near Eastern context. Taking both synchronic and diachronic aspects into account, it is argued, in contrast to many other studies, that the passage is not ambiguous about Enoch’s fate. Readers in biblical times would have understood that Enoch did not die but was translocated by God to a mythological or, “supernatural” location on earth; a location like the garden in Eden.

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Section: The Mesopotamian Flood Heromentioning

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Where Are You, Enoch? Why Can’t I Find You? Genesis 5:21–24 Reconsidered

Hoopen

2018

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“…The figure of Enoch itself is subversive. His life story may have been inspired by the tradition of celestial travels of Mesopotamian heroes (Borger 1974;Annus 2016;Sanders 2017). However, the Mesopotamian hero returns to Earth after learning celestial secrets.…”

Section: Mesopotamian Astral Magic and Jewish Exiles: The Story Omentioning

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Scribal Revelations in Ancient Judaism

Fröhlich

2024

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Revelations, visions and their interpretations create in themselves authority. In early Jewish Aramaic tradition, however, this is increased by the role of writing. Enoch receives revelations of the secrets of heaven from heavenly tablets by the Holy Watchers. The Fallen Watchers teach the earthly women magic and sorcery from tablets stolen from the heaven. Scribalism in Second Temple period Judaism and Enoch is becoming more and more researched. As is known, Enoch has a Mesopotamian scholarly tradition behind it, which saw the movement of the celestial bodies as a heavenly writing, the transmission of the will of the gods. Enochic scribes had a good familiarity with the Mesopotamian scribal tradition that took place in the sanctuaries from the Persian period onwards and whose purpose was to record astronomical observations, write diaries, prepare astronomical tables and produce almanacs recording events. Scholarly texts were considered as “secret” or “exclusive” knowledge. The omen list Enūma Anu Enlil, based on a 360-day calendar, was the pinnacle of the scribal tradition and the basis of Mesopotamian astral magic. The Mesopotamian revelatory form in Enoch serves to assert the authority of a calendrical system of its own, the 364-day year and the Holy Watchers and other angelic beings who govern it. The scribal form of revelation is known in Daniel 7 (also in Aramaic), in which the books opened in heaven contain a revelation about the fate of the fourth empire. The book-revelation of cyclic and linear time is present together in the book of Jubilees, whose chronology is based on the 364-day year, and in which Enoch keeps a record of earthly events on heavenly tablets.

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Ahiqar and Other Legendary Sages

Bledsoe¹

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature

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Die Beschwörungsserie Bīt mēseri und die Himmelfahrt Henochs

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Where Are You, Enoch? Why Can’t I Find You? Genesis 5:21–24 Reconsidered

Where Are You, Enoch? Why Can’t I Find You? Genesis 5:21–24 Reconsidered

Scribal Revelations in Ancient Judaism

Ahiqar and Other Legendary Sages

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