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By Annette Yoshiko Reed

This ebook considers the early heritage of Jewish-Christian kin focussing on traditions in regards to the fallen angels. within the e-book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the 3rd century BCE, the 'sons of God' of Gen 6:1–4 are accused of corrupting humankind via their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. through tracing the adjustments of this motif in moment Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, past due old, and Byzantine Christianity, this ebook sheds mild at the historical past of interpretation of Genesis, the altering prestige of Enochic literature, and where of parabiblical texts and traditions within the interchange among Jews and Christians in past due Antiquity and the early heart a long time. within the strategy, it explores matters comparable to the position of text-selection within the delineation of group limitations and the advance of early Jewish and Christian rules concerning the origins of evil at the earth.

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