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This study marks a bold new departure in 2 Enoch studies. The book has long been regarded as one of the most baffling apocalypses to come down to us from antiquity. The present work argues that 2 Enoch was written by a 1st c. CE Samaritan author whose purpose was to incorporate the Enochic tradition into Samaritanism. By identifying Enoch as the “prophet like Moses” (Deut. 18:15, 18), both during his earthly past and in the eschatological future, the author of 2 Enoch hoped to combat the Dosithean heresy and also to persuade co-religionists to resume a full sacrificial cultus in the shadow of Mt. Gerizim.

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Daniel C. Olson, Ph.D. (2010), now retired, was formerly Lecturer in Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College (Moraga, CA) and teacher at Live Oak Academy (Santa Clara, CA). He has published numerous books and articles on 1 Enoch, including Enoch: A New Translation (BIBAL Press, 2004) and A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch: ‘All Nations Shall be Blessed’ (Brill, 2013).

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