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So how does 1 Enoch develop its story?
1 Enoch uses the brief narrative in Genesis 6:1-5 about the “sons of God” having sexual relations with the “daughters of men” as an allegory to describe the apostasy of the Jews who were selling out to the Greeks during the Hellenistic period. In 1 Enoch, the “sons of God” represent the Jews of the Second Temple Period[2], and the “daughters of men” represent the pagan Greeks.
Enoch is especially concerned with the Jerusalem priests, many of whom were deeply compromised. For a faithful Jew to see the Jewish priesthood bend the knee to Hellenism—with its idolatry, its impurities, and its disgusting immorality—was so infuriating that only an apocalyptic vision would suffice. So, in Enoch’s visions, the fallen angels bear the imagery, roles, and titles that correspond to the temple priesthood. 1 Enoch is essentially the Second Temple period’s Animal Farm. What George Orwell did as an allegory to warn people about communism, 1 Enoch did to warn about Hellenism.
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