Title: Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions
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.
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, Apocalyptic literature, History and criticism, Angels, Early Christian literature, Christianity and other religions, Judaism, Relations, Christianity, Church history, Ethiopic book of Enoch VI-XXXVI, Bible, Bible, commentaries, o. t. pentateuch, Religion, Apocalpytic literature, Giants in the Bible