Andrei Orlov
Marquette University, Milwaukee
´THE LEARNED SAVANT
WHO GUARDS THE SECRETS
OF THE GREAT GODSª:
EVOLUTION OF THE ROLES AND TITLES
OF THE SEVENTH ANTEDILUVIAN HERO
IN MESOPOTAMIAN
AND ENOCHIC TRADITIONS
(Part II: Enochic Traditions)*
Enoch was...
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Andrei Orlov
Marquette University, Milwaukee
´THE LEARNED SAVANT
WHO GUARDS THE SECRETS
OF THE GREAT GODSª:
EVOLUTION OF THE ROLES AND TITLES
OF THE SEVENTH ANTEDILUVIAN HERO
IN MESOPOTAMIAN
AND ENOCHIC TRADITIONS
(Part II: Enochic Traditions)*
Enoch was found blameless,
and he walked with the Lord
and he was taken away
a sign of t(d for generations
(Cairo Geniza Ms.
B Sirach 44:16)
Tracing the evolution of the traditions linked to the roles and titles of the
seventh antediluvian hero leads us to investigate these notions in the Enochic
traditions, where one encounters a set of conceptual developments similar to
the Mesopotamian one examined in the first part of our study.
In the early
Enochic lore, reflected in the composition that has survived entirely only in
its Ethiopic translation and is known to scholars as 1 Ethiopic Enoch, the
seventh antediluvian patriarch is depicted in several roles that reveal striking
similarities to those of Enmeduranki.
Just like his Mesopotamian cou
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