Glorification through Fear in 2 Enoch
This article explores the imagery of fear found in 2 Enoch and its significance for the glorious transformations that Enoch undergoes during his heavenly journey. This transition from the fallen human form to the state of the celestial citizen, achieved through fear, evokes some protological allusio...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2016, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 171-188 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Enoch
/ Fear of God
/ Fear
/ Protology
/ War dead (Motif)
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IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CD Christianity and Culture HB Old Testament NBC Doctrine of God |
Further subjects: | B
Fear
B garments of light B Slavonic book of Enoch B Fear of God B divine Face B protoplast B Enoch B Glory of God B glorification B Theophany |
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Summary: | This article explores the imagery of fear found in 2 Enoch and its significance for the glorious transformations that Enoch undergoes during his heavenly journey. This transition from the fallen human form to the state of the celestial citizen, achieved through fear, evokes some protological allusions, namely, the protoplasts' fear in the Garden of Eden after their fall. This article argues that the fear of the visionary thus serves as an important prerequisite for the reversal of the fallen nature of humanity and as the first step towards the restoration of its nature to the prelapsarian state. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0951820716637149 |