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Enoch, Jubilees and others · 2 Enoch 22:8–10

Enoch becomes one of them

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Reference2 Enoch 22:8–10
Writtenc. 1st century CE
SetEnoch before God's face
And the Lord said to Michael: 'Go and take Enoch from out his earthly garments, and anoint him with my sweet ointment, and put him into the garments of My glory.'… and I looked at myself, and was like one of his glorious ones.

Translation: Morfill and Charles, 1896 · About the translator

Read it literally

A human upgraded into a visitor's body. In 3 Enoch he becomes Metatron, second only to God.

What scholars say

Theme of human transformation into an angel.

Taken up alive Looks like technology

Quick answers about 2 Enoch 22:8–10

Where is 2 Enoch 22:8–10 found?

2 Enoch 22:8–10 (Enoch, Jubilees and others). Translation quoted: W. R. Morfill and R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (1896).

When was 2 Enoch 22:8–10 written?

c. 1st century CE.

What do scholars say about 2 Enoch 22:8–10?

Theme of human transformation into an angel.

Rabbit holes in this passage

PersonEnochGenesis spends only a few lines on Enoch, and then breaks its own pattern. Everyone else in his family line dies, but of him it says only that God took him. He lived 365 years, the same number as days in a solar year. That odd ending sparked a whole library of visions, still being read today.BeingMetatronIn the Talmud, a rabbi climbs to heaven, sees Metatron seated, and decides there may be two powers in heaven. To fix the mistake, Metatron is given sixty lashes of fire. Later texts say he was once the human Enoch, then turned to flame and called "the lesser YHWH." How does a man become the highest angel?Text3 Enoch (Sefer Hekhalot)Imagine a man enlarged until his body filled the length and breadth of the world, with seventy-two wings, flesh turned to flame, and eyelids that flash like lightning. In this Hebrew text, Enoch tells a rabbi how he became the angel Metatron. It was written centuries after the rabbi it names. Who really wrote it?

Sources

  1. W. R. Morfill and R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (1896)Primary text
  2. Genesis 5:18–24, King James VersionPrimary text
  3. 3 Enoch 3–15, trans. Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch or the Hebrew Book of Enoch (1928)Primary text
  4. 3 Enoch, trans. Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch or the Hebrew Book of Enoch (1928)Primary text

Scholarly dates are rounded. The wording follows the named public-domain translation.

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