Enoch: A Man for All Generations

by James C. VanderKam

Book Overview

Credited with predicting the flood and foretelling a second punishment but mentioned only briefly in the Hebrew Bible, Enoch is one of the most intriguing yet little-known characters of ancient Jewish and Christian literature. Genesis devotes just four verses to Enoch; yet this man became a central figure in many of the oldest surviving Jewish legends of apocalypse, the subject of a larger number of traditions during the intertestamental period, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037965
• ISBN13: 9781570037962
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"