Inside the Book of Enoch

Of the books left out of the Bible, the First Book of Enoch is among the most fascinating. Purporting to tell the story of Noah’s great-grandfather — the antediluvian patriarch that God took up into heaven — the text includes elaborate visions of the celestial realms and angelic hierarchies. In a past lecture, John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place looked at 1st Enoch’s context, including its acceptance within the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In this lecture, we dive deep into text, investigating its obscure and esoteric content.

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Other topics covered in this lecture include:
Second Temple Judaism
Canon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha
Why the Book of Enoch is not Canonical
Antediluvian Myth
Noah's Ark and the Deluge
Angels and angelology
Religious Visions
Esoteric Texts
Apocalyptic Literature

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