Library/Enochic corpus
2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch)
Enoch is taken through ten (or seven) heavens, shown paradise, ice, the Grigori, and the throne, then sent home for a month of instruction. A creation account (Adoil, Arkhas) and a fierce ethic of almsgiving sit beside merkabah vision.
Open the Enoch survey- Status
- Pseudepigrapha
- Date
- 1st century CE? (debated)
- Languages
- Church Slavonic (complete) · possibly from Greek
- Setting
- Ascent through multiple heavens; a return to earth to teach
What it contains
- Ascent of the heavens
- Creation discourse
- Instructions to the children
- Translation
Why it sits outside most canons
Never in any Jewish or Western Christian canon. Survived in Slavonic monasteries.
Themes
- Heavens
- Grigori
- Creation
- Ethics
- Ascent
Passages
2 Enoch 18
In the fifth heaven Enoch sees the Grigori, like men in appearance, their faces downcast — the Watchers who turned aside, and their brothers who are still heard on earth.