On 08/03/2010 02:07 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I think that Enoch was a monotheistic Jew. Most of the common understanding of the devil comes from Enoch. Indeed, in the book of Jude, Enoch was quoted as scripture.
Spinning back, somewhat, towards the topic of this list: the Book(s) of Enoch keep getting brought up in my science fiction reading lately. For this I particularly blame Neal Stephenson (I've just reached the beginning of Book 8: System of the World in Stephenson's Baroque Cycle), but there have been a few other Singularitarians out there invoking the name of Enoch in one fashion or another.
Has anyone else been noticing this "trend"? Anyone got some interesting thoughts on the matter? Certainly my own research on the subject has primarily been "the esteemed" Wikipedia.
One interesting thing that stands out in my mind is that Enoch's "angel name" after ascending is apparently transliterated "Metatron". It is, of course, fascinating the modern sci-fi (or at least Transformers) sound of the name to an English-speaking audience. (I've got a feeling that this is also something that fascinated Mr. Stephenson, as I've heard it said that the Baroque Cycle is a (very) long meandering tangent en route to some sort of Singularitarian capstone...)
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