Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780800699789
Description: Leading scholars explore the tradition, rooted in Genesis 6, of "the Watchers," mysterious heavenly beings who became the focus of rich cosmological and theological speculation in early Judaism. Chapters trace the development of the Watchers through the Enoch literature, Jubilees, and other early Jewish and Christian writings.