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" The Enochic Traditions and Jesus’s Exorcism in Mark "
Kim, Young Kuk
Bock, Darrell L.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1052357
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TL51474
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Kim, Young Kuk
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The Enochic Traditions and Jesus’s Exorcism in Mark\ Kim, Young KukBock, Darrell L.
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Dallas Theological Seminary
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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254 p.
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Scholars from the Enochic influence scholarship argue that Synoptic demonology is discontinuous from Old Testament demonology because the Enochic evil spirits, whose concept reflects the Mesopotamian demonology Jews learned during the Exile, influenced all other demonological conversations in the Second Temple Jewish works, including the Synoptics. This study surveys primary sources to evaluate this premise and concludes that they are debatable. This study consists of six chapters. The main arguments are in chapters two through five. The second chapter surveys the relationship between the Book of the Watchers and other Second Temple Jewish works. This study concludes that God designates the hybrid giants to work as evil spirits after their death, and the Second Temple Jewish literature shows a diversity of demonology, which makes the overall influence of the former upon all later works unlikely. The third chapter explores the relationship between the Book of the Watchers and the Old Testament based on nine major topics in the fallen angel tradition and concludes that the two traditions are closely related to, rather than distinct, from each other. The fourth chapter investigates the demonological portrayals in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece and concludes that Mesopotamia has no evil spirit compatible with the Enochic evil spirits. A combined image of the hybrid birth and departed human souls may have caused the rise of the Enochic evil spirits, but the combined image is also possible from the Egyptian or Greek thoughts, which makes the exclusive Mesopotamian influence upon the Enochic evil spirits weak. The fifth chapter surveys the Markan unclean spirits in the exorcism and exorcism-related accounts. Mark is selected for the Synoptics because this study has a limited scope, and Mark is the earliest gospel and emphasizes Jesus’s exorcism. This study concludes that the Markan unclean spirits are the corrupted angels of later Old Testament books with two features developed in the Second Temple period after the Book of the Watchers: (1) Satan as the head of the unclean spirits (11Q13 2:12–13), and (2) their entering human bodies (4Q560 1 i 3; Josephus, Ant. 8.2.5 §45–49).
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Biblical studies
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Judaic studies
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Religion
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Bock, Darrell L.
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Dallas Theological Seminary
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