The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
42. Did Giants, Nephilim, and Other Creatures Ruin the World?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Elena L. Dugan [+]
Elena L. Dugan earned a Doctorate in Religion from Princeton University. She researches the apocalyptic literature and manuscript traditions of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with a particular focus on the history of Enoch. She has published: “Enochic Biography and the Manuscript History of 1 Enoch: The Codex Panopolitanus Book of the Watchers.” Journal of Biblical Literature 140 (2021): 113–138; “On Making Manuscripts, Genre, and the Boundaries of Ancient Jewish Literature.” Metatron 1 (2021): 1–9; and The Apocalypse of the Birds: Enoch and the Jewish War in the First Century CE (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
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Who was really to blame for the Flood that wiped the land in the days of Noah? Genesis 6 is ambiguous, but Enoch—quoted in Jude 1:14—is clear. Humans took the blame for others, as is still often the case today.