Tag Archives: Watchers

“Noah…Prepared an Ark to the Saving of His House” (Old Testament Lesson 6)

Although this week’s (if I’m ever off-schedule here, please let me know — I am in Scotland…) lesson is focused on Noah and the Flood narrative, this post will concentrate more on “his house.” Not that the story of Noah isn’t important, or that I couldn’t find tons of things to say about it, but [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: On 1 Enoch

The following notes are representative of what we studied this past week for my Apocalyptic Literature class with Dr. Andrei Orlov. TEXT: 1 Enoch 1-36 = Book of the Watchers. Esp. chs. 14-15 – Enoch’s vision of the Heavenly Temple• Genesis 5-6 (in Hebrew). (You should probably look at these passages first for this post to [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: Creation, Adam, and the Fall

This post is a continuation of the last one, where I covered what I learned this week in my Age of the Fathers course. Before moving on to Dr. Andrei Orlov’s class on Apocalyptic Literature, I want to share with you some of the recommended reading titles that Dr. Barnes gave us which refer to early Christianity, [...]
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