Andrei A.
Orlov
http://www.
andreiorlov.
com
Enoch as the Expert in Secrets
[an excerpt from A.
Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 2005), pp.
xii+383.
ISBN 3-16-148544-0.
]
….
Helge Kvanvig observes that the...
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Andrei A.
Orlov
http://www.
andreiorlov.
com
Enoch as the Expert in Secrets
[an excerpt from A.
Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 2005), pp.
xii+383.
ISBN 3-16-148544-0.
]
….
Helge Kvanvig observes that the seventh patriarch’s role as a sage cannot be
separated from his expertise in celestial mysteries since “in Jewish tradition Enoch is
primarily portrayed as a primeval sage, the ultimate revealer of divine secrets.
”1
The patriarch’s prowess in the heavenly secrets is deeply embedded in the fabric of
the Enochic myth and is set against the expertise in the celestial knowledge that the
fallen Watchers once possessed.
2
John Collins observes that “most significantly,
Enoch is implicitly cast as a revealer of mysteries.
The Watchers are angels who
descend to reveal a worthless mystery.
3
Enoch is a human being who ascends to get
true revelation.
”4
The traditions about the patriarch’s expertise in esoteric knowledge are attested in
a variety
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