![]() Brand explains the “distancing” from God that took place in the Second Temple period as evidenced by the increased focus on the angelic world. Gordon and Brand tread through centuries of biblical and extra-biblical literature to exposit how original and subsequent readers have viewed the Watchers. The Book of Watchers is an attempt by ancient Jews to explain this mysterious passage in the Torah. The intrigue begins in Genesis 6:1-4 when “sons of God” got together with “daughters of men” and “Nephilim” seem to have been the result-a passage Nehemia considers the most difficult in the Tanakh. Miryam Brand about the Book of Watchers, which is another name for the first 36 chapters of 1 Enoch. In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Nephilim and Demons in the Book of Enoch, Nehemia talks with Dr.
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