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andrei orlov enoch as scribe
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Malala John
Andrei A.
Orlov
http://www.
andreiorlov.
com
Enoch as the Scribe
[an excerpt from A.
Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 2005), pp.
xii+383.
ISBN 3-16-148544-0.
]
….
This section on the unique...
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Andrei A.
Orlov
http://www.
andreiorlov.
com
Enoch as the Scribe
[an excerpt from A.
Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 2005), pp.
xii+383.
ISBN 3-16-148544-0.
]
….
This section on the unique scribal functions of the seventh antediluvian patriarch
begins with the passage found in 2 Enoch 22, which provides a graphic picture of the
patriarch’s initiation into scribal activities.
This initiation takes place near the Throne
of Glory when the Lord himself commands the archangel Vereveil to give a pen to
Enoch so that he can write the mysteries explained to him by the angels.
This tradition
about the scribal functions of the patriarch reflected in the Slavonic apocalypse was
already documented in the earliest Enochic literature.
1
The Book of Giants fragments
label Enoch a distinguished scribe.
2
In Jub 4:17, he is attested as the one who
“learned (the art of) writing, instruction, and wisdom and who wrote down in a book
the signs of the sky….
”3
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