Greek Apocalypse of Ezra 4.25-32 James H. Charlesworth, ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1983), 575. 1 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John 6-7.5 Tony Burke, ed. New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020), 389–90.…

Article The Arabic version contained in MS Vaticano arabo 158 (fols. 99v111v) of the Apocalypse of Ps.-Athanasius is part of a homily attributed to the Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373 AD) in the festivity of the archangel Michael (F.J. MARTINEZ, Eastern Christian Apocalyptic in the Early Muslim Period: Pseudo-Methodius and Pseudo-Athanasius, Washington, 1985, p.…

The word “apocalyptic,” or rather the corresponding German nominal form Apokalyptik, was introduced into scholarly discussion by Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke in 1832, in the context of an introduction to the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation (Lücke 1832). Prompted in part by the recent publication of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, Lücke grouped…

Article Revelation about “final things” in the sense of absolute or ultimate importance (Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus—God and Man (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1968), “Problem of Apocalyptic,” 104–5 and n. 16). “Eschatology” in this sense can be seen as already “inaugurated” through the work of Jesus and of Paul; but its beginning implies no end. Rather, “inaugurated eschatology”…

In chapter 25 of the 2 (Slavonic) Enoch the Lord reveals to the translated antediluvian hero some unique details of the mysteries of creation found neither in earlier Enochic booklets nor in any other Second Temple Jewish materials. Several distinguished students of Jewish mystical traditions, including Gershom Scholem and Moshe Idel, noticed that this protological…

These studies argued that the large number of Jewish pseudepigraphical writings preserved in Slavonic appear to contain Bogomil interpolations (J. Ivanov, Богомилски книги и легенди (София: Придворна Печатница, 1925). Some scholars have even proposed the possibility that works like 2 Enoch were composed in the Slavonic language by the Bogomils between the 12th and 15th…

Article The Old Testament treats Enoch very sparingly (Fig. 12.1). From Genesis 5:18–22 we learn that Enoch lived 365 years; at the age of 65 he begat Methuselah, then ‘walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.’ Enoch’s great grandson was Noah, who by God’s grace transferred earthly life, including humanity to…

In the Slavonic 2 Enoch, it is described how Enoch reaches the seventh heaven on his journey to heaven. Verses 20:3, 21:6 and 22:1 also mention the eighth, ninth and tenth heavens. However, these passages, which are not included in all manuscripts, are later interpolations influenced by Jewish mysticism (Böttrich 1996: p. 885, 889). Embedded…

Article The tablet shows striking correspondences with the narrative of Homer’s Iliad and testifies to second-millennium Luwian songs about the fall of Troy.