The Origin of Evil Spirits: The Reception of Genesis 6:1-4 in Early Jewish Literature - Softcover

Wright, Archie T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451490321 ISBN 13: 9781451490329

Verlag: FORTRESS PR, 2015

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How do we account for the explosion of demonic activity in the New Testament? Archie T. Wrights work traces the development of the concept of evil spirits from the Hebrew Bible through postbiblical Jewish literature. Wright is concerned with the reception history of Genesis 6:14 (the source of the Watchers traditions) in early Enochic and Philonic Judaism during the Second Temple Period. He suggests that the nonspecificity inherent in the biblical text of Genesis 6:14 opened the basis for the later emergence of an etiology of evil spirits as Jewish authors engaged with the text.

As a result, Genesis 6:14 played an important part in the development of demonology in Second Temple Judaism. Chapters examine 1 Enoch 136 (the Book of the Watchers) and the reception of the Watchers tradition in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Philo of Alexandria and draw conclusions about the background of the New Testament conceptions of demons and demon possession.

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Archie T. Wright is interim executive director of the Catholic Biblical Association and visiting lecturer at the London School of Theology. He is the author of The Origin of Evil Spirits: The Reception of Genesis 6:1--4 in Early Jewish Literature (Fortress, 2015).

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• Verlag: FORTRESS PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1451490321
• ISBN 13: 9781451490329
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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