A study of the geography of 1 Enoch 17-19 : "no one has seen what I have seen"
This work examines the travels of the patriarch Enoch who is given a guided tour of extraordinary and at times terrifying places located throughout the cosmos. It clarifies the text of 1 Enoch 17-19 by explaining how the sites described relate to one another geographically
Comparative studies
1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) : illustrations
9781423711094, 9789047402251, 9789004131033, 1423711092, 9047402251, 9004131035
191927991
Preliminary determinations
Description of the geography of 1 Enoch 17-19. Description of the geography of 1 Enoch 17:1-3, the Mountain of God and Place of luminaries
Description of the geography of 1 Enoch 17:4-8; the Great Darkness and Waterways
Description of the geography of 1 Enoch 18:1-9; the Four Winds and the Seven Mountains
Description of the geography of 1 Enoch 18:9-19:3; the Prison of the Stars and Angels
Making sense of the geography of 1 Enoch 17-19. Putting it all together; mapping the world of 1 Enoch 17-19
Comparable geographical data and parallels in Israelite and Jewish traditions
Comparable geographical data and parallels in ancient Near Eastern and Greek traditions
Cosmology and geography in the Enochic corpus and in the Second Temple period and late antique traditions
Conclusion: summary of the results, 1 Enoch 17-19 in context; The theology of 1 Enoch 17-19; Excursus: law and the Enochic community