Tag Archives: Enochic literature

El Shaddai: Ascension of Metatron Video Game

By David Larsen | Published: May 20, 2010
I apologize for the dearth of good posts recently. I have been in the thick of some intense work on my dissertation, so things have been a little crazy lately.  Unfortunately, for most this post won’t make up at all for the lack of substantive material here! However, after having seen the news of this [...]
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Introduction from Dr. Andrei Orlov’s “Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha”

By David Larsen | Published: August 9, 2009
As promised in my last post, with Dr. Orlov’s permission, I am posting a link to the full introduction to his new book Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha . Click here: Orlov Introduction The intro is over 20 pages long, but it is well worth your time to take a look at it.  Dr. [...]
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Apocalyptic Paul?

By David Larsen | Published: April 19, 2009
As I was looking through some old notes taken in my Apocalyptic Literature class (last semester), I found some brief details I took down from our class discussion of the Apostle Paul.  The point of the lecture was that Paul is considered by some to have a very apocalyptic background/perspective.  The following are the notes [...]
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Some Notes on the Son of Man in Ancient Jewish Literature

By David Larsen | Published: April 10, 2009
This post, much like my last one, represents some brief notes that I made on the topic of the title “son of man” as it appears in the Old Testament and in later Second Temple Jewish writings preceding the coming of Christ. As the title is frequently applied to Christ in the New Testament, it [...]
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SBL 2008 Notes: Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

By David Larsen | Published: January 10, 2009
Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Session Topic: Enochic Literature Dr. Silviu Bunta (PhD, Marquette University) presiding First Presenter: Name Unknown The book of 1 Enoch describes a scene in which Enoch is shown a group of seven mountains. The middle mountain is God’s throne–the mountain of judgment The other mountains are thrones of the divine [...]
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SANE Conference 2008–My Presentation on Two High Priesthoods

By David Larsen | Published: November 12, 2008
This is a video of my presentation at the SANE Conference. The title of my paper was: “Two High Priesthoods? Evidence for Changes in the Priesthood from First to Second Temple Judaism.” This was originally a paper that I wrote for an Old Testament class at Marquette University.  I had to actually cut out a [...]
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Moses, Enoch, and the Heavenly Ascent

By David Larsen | Published: August 1, 2008
Insights from Andrei Orlov’s “IN THE MIRROR OF THE DIVINE FACE:THE ENOCHIC FEATURES OF THE EXAGOGE OF EZEKIEL THE TRAGEDIAN” For Latter-day Saints, there is often a certain connection made in our minds between the prophets Moses and Enoch due to the inclusion of the story of Enoch in The Pearl of Great Price’s Book of [...]
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