Enoch the Explorer: 1 Enoch 17–36 in Its Hellenistic Context
The journeys undertaken by the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, in 1 Enoch 17-36, engage closely with a well-known contemporary practice of Hellenistic courts: the dispatching of expeditions of exploration. Such reframing can situate this early Jewish apocalypse more fully within its third-century BCE...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
2024
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2024, Volume: 143, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-83 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Enoch
/ Henoch
/ Enoch
/ Exploration
/ Space research
/ Hellenistic Jews
/ Early Judaism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism TB Antiquity |
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| Summary: | The journeys undertaken by the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, in 1 Enoch 17-36, engage closely with a well-known contemporary practice of Hellenistic courts: the dispatching of expeditions of exploration. Such reframing can situate this early Jewish apocalypse more fully within its third-century BCE intellectual, cultural, and political ecosystem and also make space for Judean thought in the history of ancient geography. |
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| ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1431.2024.4 |