Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19 examines the travels of the patriarch Enoch who is given a guided tour of extraordinary and at times terrifying places located throughout the cosmos. Coblentz Bautch clarifies the text of 1 Enoch 17-19 by explaining how the sites described relate to one another geographically and by reconstructing the mental map of the geography that lies behind the textual descriptions. Especially provocative is the consideration of sources from the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible and the world of Hellenistic Judaism that may have informed the world view of 1 Enoch 17-19 and parallel traditions. Through this study an important facet of apocalypses is illumined: their portrayal of geography and sacred space.
Author(s): Kelley Coblentz Bautch
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 81
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 350
A STUDYOF THE GEOGRAPHY OF 1 ENOCH 17-19: “No One Has Seen What I Have Seen”......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Preface: Geography in the Otherworldly Journeys of Enoch......Page 19
SECTION ONE: PRELIMINARY DETERMINATIONS......Page 29
A. The Pericope in Its Setting: Chapters 17–19 within the Book of the Watchers......Page 31
B. Redactional Considerations......Page 35
C. The Literary Form of 1 Enoch 17–19......Page 42
SECTION TWO: DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF 1 ENOCH 17–19......Page 49
Overview of Section 2......Page 51
Translation of 1 Enoch 17–19......Page 52
Synopsis......Page 54
A. 1 Enoch 17:1......Page 59
B. 1 Enoch 17:2......Page 67
C. 1 Enoch 17:3......Page 84
D. The Mountain of God and Place of the Luminaries in the North......Page 86
A. 1 Enoch 17:4......Page 88
B. 1 Enoch 17:5......Page 100
C. 1 Enoch 17:6......Page 102
D. 1 Enoch 17:7......Page 108
E. 1 Enoch 17:8......Page 113
F. The Realm of the Dead in the West......Page 115
A. 1 Enoch 18:1–5......Page 117
B. 1 Enoch 18:6......Page 125
C. 1 Enoch 18:7......Page 134
D. 1 Enoch 18:8......Page 138
E. Circuitous Journey of the Winds and Seven Mountains in the South......Page 143
A. 1 Enoch 18:9......Page 145
B. 1 Enoch 18:10......Page 146
C. 1 Enoch 18:11......Page 147
D. 1 Enoch 19:1–2......Page 149
E. 1 Enoch 18:12......Page 159
F. 1 Enoch 18:13–16......Page 161
G. 1 Enoch 19:3......Page 169
H. The Place of Imprisonment in the East......Page 172
I. Summation of the Description of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17–19......Page 173
SECTION THREE: MAKING SENSE OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF 1 ENOCH 17–19......Page 175
Overview of Section 3......Page 177
A. Mental Mapping......Page 178
B. Grelot’s Map......Page 180
C. Milik’s Map......Page 185
D. Stock-Hesketh’s Map......Page 194
E. An Alternative Map for 1 Enoch 17–19......Page 202
A. Mental Mapping and Sources of Information......Page 209
B. The Astronomical Book......Page 217
C. Traditions from the Hebrew Bible......Page 224
D. Summary of Chapter and Conclusions......Page 248
A. Traditions from the Ancient Near East......Page 249
B. Greek Traditions......Page 256
C. Summary of the Chapter and Conclusions......Page 271
A. Cosmology and the Enochic Corpus......Page 276
B. Cosmology and Geography in Jewish and Christian Works of the Second Temple Period and Late Antiquity......Page 283
C. Summary of the Chapter and Conclusions......Page 290
A. Summary of Results......Page 295
B. 1 Enoch 17–19 in Context......Page 297
C. The Theology of 1 Enoch 17–19......Page 305
D. Excursus: Law and the Enochic Community......Page 307
Appendix: Text Critical Issues......Page 318
Bibliography......Page 323
G......Page 331
N......Page 332
Z......Page 333
Hebrew Bible......Page 334
New Testament......Page 338
Pseudepigrapha......Page 339
Ancient Near Eastern Texts......Page 345
Josephus......Page 346
Classical and Ancient Christian Writings......Page 347
Back Matter......Page 351
