Second Enoch: A Samaritan Apocalypse

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

 1 Text and Date

 2 Place

 3 Organization of the Present Study

Part 1: Evidence for Samaritan Authorship

1 Samaritan Biblical Exegesis in 2 Enoch …

 1 “The LORD Will Not Judge a Single Animal Soul” (2 En. 58:4)

 2 The Avenger on the Day (2 En. 50:4)

 3 Midrash on the Creation

 4 The Missing Scriptures

 5 The Missing Temples

2 Binding by Four Legs (2 En. 59:3–4; 69:12)

 1 The Akedah

3 The Place Akhuzan (2 En. 64:2–3; 68:5; 69:3; 70:17; 71:35)

 1 “The Meadow of Glory”

4 The Visible and the Invisible

5 The Guardians of the Land (2 En. 35:2)

6 Enoch as (the Samaritan) Moses

 1 “Man of God”

 2 “Who Carries Away Our Sins”

 3 “Stand in Front of the Face of the LORD Forever”

 4 “Like One of the Glorious Ones”

 5 “I Saw the LORD”

7 A Samaritan Origin for the Exagoge of Ezekiel

 1 Stronger Arguments

 2 The Evidence of 2 En. 39:5–40:5

8 Further Signs of Samaritanism in 2 Enoch

 1 The Watcher Myth

 2 The Creation Midrash (2 En. 24:2–33:4)

 3 Insulting the Face of God

 4 Curses and Blessings

 5 The Elders of the People (2 En. 57:1–2; 64:3; 69:1, 7–8, 11; 70:11)

 6 Escape to Eden

 7 The Essential Theology of 2 Enoch and Samaritanism

Part 2: The Purposes of the Apocalypse

9 The Context of 2 Enoch: the Dosithean Controversies

 1 To Sacrifice or Not to Sacrifice

 2 The Lamp and the Tabernacle

 3 The Place of Sacrifice

10 Dosithean Counterattack: the Asatir

 1 A Tale of Two Ephods

 2 A Tale of Two Altars

11 The Melchizedekian Priesthood

 1 The Priestly Line in 2 Enoch: Three Peculiarities

 2 Chains of Twelve Priests

Afterword

Appendix: Macaskill’s Entangled Enoch

Bibliography

Index of Modern Authors