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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Methods in biblical scholarship (Moshe)
  • Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:59:43 EST


In a message dated 12/30/1999 3:00:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
mc2499 AT mclink.it writes:

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While I do have a written source for Enoch Watchers traditions that belies
a development in itself, one cannot claim that the Watchers materials came
from Genesis as Gen seems to know materials that are found in the developed
sections of Watchers. If the material was available already united then
there would have been no need for Watchers to have gone through the
development it has. As to some dating of the Watchers, it is assumed by the
Animal Apocalypse which can be dated to late in Judas Maccabaeus's efforts.

Now while the "Watchers" has followed a certain theological development
which places the burden of the flood on the intrusion of the Watchers into
the human world and the fall of man through the Watchers, Genesis is
offering a different paradigm for the flood: the deeds of the Watchers are
not tied to the wickedness of humankind, but to their inherent waywardness
as displayed by the fall in the garden. If there had been the fall in the
garden available for the writers of the Watchers, could they have developed
their paradigm regardless?

The different approach to the fall taken by Genesis explains why its
version of the Watchers story has been obfuscated. You may like to attempt
to generate a theory that the "Watchers" was developed after the Genesis
materials existed, but to do so you would have to explain how something as
well entrenched as you would have it was completely ignored by the writers
of "Watchers".
>>

Is it not possible that the Watchers tradition and the Gen. reference both
refer to a common tradition. It is possible that Enoch is simply a further
development of the same tradition which has gone in a direction which Gen.
would not have known or supported.

gfsomsel




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