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Enoch, Jubilees and others · 2 Enoch 22:8–10

Enoch becomes one of them

Reference2 Enoch 22:8–10
Writtenc. 1st century CE
SetEnoch before God's face
And the Lord said to Michael: 'Go and take Enoch from out his earthly garments, and anoint him with my sweet ointment, and put him into the garments of My glory.'… and I looked at myself, and was like one of his glorious ones.

Translation: Morfill and Charles, 1896 · About the translator

Read it literally

A human upgraded into a visitor's body. In 3 Enoch he becomes Metatron, second only to God.

What scholars say

Theme of human transformation into an angel.

Taken up alive Looks like technology

Quick answers about 2 Enoch 22:8–10

Where is 2 Enoch 22:8–10 found?

2 Enoch 22:8–10 (Enoch, Jubilees and others). Translation quoted: W. R. Morfill and R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (1896).

When was 2 Enoch 22:8–10 written?

c. 1st century CE.

What do scholars say about 2 Enoch 22:8–10?

Theme of human transformation into an angel.

Rabbit holes in this passage

PersonEnochThe man who 'walked with God: and he was not; for God took him,' and who became the hero of an entire library of visions.BeingMetatronThe highest angel of Jewish mystical texts, once the human Enoch, called 'the lesser YHWH' and given a throne of his own.Text3 Enoch (Sefer Hekhalot)A Hebrew mystical text in which Enoch, now the angel Metatron, tells a rabbi how he was turned to fire.

Sources

  1. W. R. Morfill and R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (1896)Primary text
  2. Genesis 5:18–24, King James VersionPrimary text
  3. 3 Enoch 3–15, trans. Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch or the Hebrew Book of Enoch (1928)Primary text
  4. 3 Enoch, trans. Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch or the Hebrew Book of Enoch (1928)Primary text

Scholarly dates are rounded. The wording follows the named public-domain translation.

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