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The
two major prophecies that help ground the dating are the Animal Apocalypse
(chs. 85-90) and the Apocalypse of Weeks (chs. 91-93). |
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Qumran
is the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It seems to have been a community of
apocalyptic Jewish separatists who were in conflict with the Jerusalem establishment
over issues of purity, sacrifice, and the calendar. They regarded the Hasmonean
(Maccabean) priesthood in particular to be quite corrupt. Scholars disagree
whether or not the community was made up of the Essenes mentioned by Josephus
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The
Similitudes or Parables of Enoch has not been found among the Qumran materials
causing speculation about a late date (post-Christian) for this section.
Championed by Milik in his edition of the Qumran fragments, this view has
not gained widespread support. |
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John
J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish
Matrix of Christianity, (New York: Crossroad, 1984), 33-34. |
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Enoch gives us great insight into how the apocalyptic groups at the turn
of the era regarded their world-a highly elaborate architecture populated
by angelic beings and spirits, both benign and malevolent-and expectations
for a messiah and God's initiation of a messianic age. |
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