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Library/Enochic corpus

3 Enoch (Hebrew Enoch / Sefer Hekhalot)

Enoch has become Metatron, prince of the presence. The book is a rabbinic merkabah text that remembers the flood, the departed Shekhinah, and the danger of saying ‘two powers in heaven.’ The letters of creation are taught as a fenced science.

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Status
Pseudepigrapha
Date
5th–7th century CE (in a Hekhalot milieu)
Languages
Hebrew
Setting
The palaces of heaven; Rabbi Ishmael’s ascent

What it contains

  • Ishmael and Metatron
  • Seventy names
  • Letters of creation
  • Princes of the world

Why it sits outside most canons

Mystical rather than scriptural; inside Judaism it is esoteric, not canonical.

Themes

  • Metatron
  • Merkabah
  • Names
  • Two powers
  • Shekhinah

Passages

  • 3 Enoch 16

    When Elisha ben Abuyah saw Metatron seated, he said ‘two powers.’ Metatron was given sixty lashes of fire and made to stand.