db85 looking at Enoch in detail will teach us much
about the religion and religious history of these Jews who believed that a man became G d (and/or that G d became a man).
The roots of Enoch's apotheosis seem to go back very far in the ancient Near East: I hope to uncover the outlines of a fateful moment in Jewish religious history, the one in which the doctrine of the messiah as an incarnate divine person and as an exalted human is formed.
It is good to remember here that the idea of the Messiah originally centered around an ordinary, human king of the House of David who would restore that so longed-for monarchy, while the idea of a divine Redeemer developed separately.
It is around the time of Jesus (or actually somewhat earlier) that these two ideas are combined into the concept of a divine Messiah.
The best evidence for this is that in the Similitudes, we find the same combination of religious notions that we find in the contemporaneous Gospels.
The preexistence of the Son of Man is quite explicitly brought out in the Similitudes at 48:2-3: "AND AT THAT HOUR THAT SON OF MAN WAS NAMED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD OF SPIRITS, AND HIS NAME BEFORE THE HEAD OF DAYS. EVEN BEFORE THE SUN AND THE CONSTELLATIONS WERE CREATED, BEFORE THE STARS OF EAVEN WERE MADE, HIS NAME WAS NAMED BEFORE THE LORD OF SPIRITS."
This is the same chapter in which he is named as the Messiahas well. Moreover, in the verses that continue from this one, he is indicated as the Redeemer and also one to whom worship is due.
Kijk ook nog maar even terug naar Cyrus/KORESH & soortgelijke verlossers, bevrijders, goddelijk geïnspireerde 'lotsbestemmers' & gezalfden.
The roots of Enoch's apotheosis seem to go back very far in the ancient Near East: I hope to uncover the outlines of a fateful moment in Jewish religious history, the one in which the doctrine of the messiah as an incarnate divine person and as an exalted human is formed.
It is good to remember here that the idea of the Messiah originally centered around an ordinary, human king of the House of David who would restore that so longed-for monarchy, while the idea of a divine Redeemer developed separately.
It is around the time of Jesus (or actually somewhat earlier) that these two ideas are combined into the concept of a divine Messiah.
The best evidence for this is that in the Similitudes, we find the same combination of religious notions that we find in the contemporaneous Gospels.
The preexistence of the Son of Man is quite explicitly brought out in the Similitudes at 48:2-3: "AND AT THAT HOUR THAT SON OF MAN WAS NAMED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD OF SPIRITS, AND HIS NAME BEFORE THE HEAD OF DAYS. EVEN BEFORE THE SUN AND THE CONSTELLATIONS WERE CREATED, BEFORE THE STARS OF EAVEN WERE MADE, HIS NAME WAS NAMED BEFORE THE LORD OF SPIRITS."
This is the same chapter in which he is named as the Messiahas well. Moreover, in the verses that continue from this one, he is indicated as the Redeemer and also one to whom worship is due.
Kijk ook nog maar even terug naar Cyrus/KORESH & soortgelijke verlossers, bevrijders, goddelijk geïnspireerde 'lotsbestemmers' & gezalfden.
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