Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
3-2016
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Source Publication
Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha
Source ISSN
0951-8207
Abstract
This article explores the imagery of fear found in 2 Enoch and its significance for the glorious transformations that Enoch undergoes during his heavenly journey. This transition from the fallen human form to the state of the celestial citizen, achieved through fear, evokes some protological allusions, namely, the protoplasts' fear in the Garden of Eden after their fall. This article argues that the fear of the visionary thus serves as an important prerequisite for the reversal of the fallen nature of humanity and as the first step towards the restoration of its nature to the prelapsarian state.
Recommended Citation
Orlov, Andrei, "Glorification through Fear in 2 Enoch" (2016). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 573.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/573
Comments
Accepted version. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 25, No. 3 (March 2016): 171-188. DOI. © 2016 SAGE Publications. Used with permission.