Niggi Hardare 🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: Interesting tidbit of jewish/Christian history: Enoch is not a Semitic name. No one ...
Interesting tidbit of jewish/Christian history: Enoch is not a Semitic name. No one knows what language family it belongs to.
He is also censored in mainstream jewish literature until Rabbi Isaac Luria revolutionized jewish mysticism with Kabbalah in the late Middle Ages. Before that, detailed accounts of him only survived in a few ancient texts, all of which were forgotten in the Middle Ages, but his depictions there make it clear *why* the jews wanted to erase him.
He is always depicted as divine, **especially** in the jewish book of Enoch. He is identified as the Little YHWH; the 2nd God, Metatron. Quite similar to how the early Christians imagined Jesus. Interestingly enough, Christians did not try to erase Enoch, even though the Two Powers doctrine also becomes a heresy in later Christian theology (though I suspect it’s exactly what the Apostles had in mind.) He’s cited in the New Testament by Jesus and St. Jude.
Only two Christian accounts of him still exist, neither were in use when found, and one is Gnostic. Combined with the jewish one, that makes three, and all three are significantly corrupt. However, Enoch comes back in a *big* way in the English Reformation. He’s invoked by astrologers and mystics in British intelligence and secret societies who claimed to speak to Angels, alongside other mysterious Biblical figures like Solomon and Melchizedek. Christians also integrated the aforementioned Kabbalah into their own thinking, and Enoch had re-established himself there by this period. When Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of Mormonism, claimed inspiration over a new revision of the Bible, Enoch becomes the center of the Apocalypse, and this all occurs within 100 years of the initial rediscovery of ancient Enochic literature.
**What does all of this culminate in?** I don’t know, it’s just a lot of disconnected interesting facts, sue me, but considering all this happens without Enoch ever becoming mainstream in any Abrahamic religion, while Enoch himself bears a name that can’t be traced to any known language, I think it has some kind of significance.
Or maybe it’s just interesting and useless. Who cares?
He is also censored in mainstream jewish literature until Rabbi Isaac Luria revolutionized jewish mysticism with Kabbalah in the late Middle Ages. Before that, detailed accounts of him only survived in a few ancient texts, all of which were forgotten in the Middle Ages, but his depictions there make it clear *why* the jews wanted to erase him.
He is always depicted as divine, **especially** in the jewish book of Enoch. He is identified as the Little YHWH; the 2nd God, Metatron. Quite similar to how the early Christians imagined Jesus. Interestingly enough, Christians did not try to erase Enoch, even though the Two Powers doctrine also becomes a heresy in later Christian theology (though I suspect it’s exactly what the Apostles had in mind.) He’s cited in the New Testament by Jesus and St. Jude.
Only two Christian accounts of him still exist, neither were in use when found, and one is Gnostic. Combined with the jewish one, that makes three, and all three are significantly corrupt. However, Enoch comes back in a *big* way in the English Reformation. He’s invoked by astrologers and mystics in British intelligence and secret societies who claimed to speak to Angels, alongside other mysterious Biblical figures like Solomon and Melchizedek. Christians also integrated the aforementioned Kabbalah into their own thinking, and Enoch had re-established himself there by this period. When Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of Mormonism, claimed inspiration over a new revision of the Bible, Enoch becomes the center of the Apocalypse, and this all occurs within 100 years of the initial rediscovery of ancient Enochic literature.
**What does all of this culminate in?** I don’t know, it’s just a lot of disconnected interesting facts, sue me, but considering all this happens without Enoch ever becoming mainstream in any Abrahamic religion, while Enoch himself bears a name that can’t be traced to any known language, I think it has some kind of significance.
Or maybe it’s just interesting and useless. Who cares?