Fallen Angels And The History Of Judaism And Christianity Annette Yoshiko Reed by Annette Yoshiko Reed, M Mark And Esther K Watkins Assistant Professor In The Humanities Annette Yoshiko Reed 9780521853781, 0521853788 instant download after payment.

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.

In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the "sons of God" of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.