Philip F. Esler is the Portland Chair in New Testament Studies in the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author and editor of many books, including Babatha's Orchard (2017) and Sex, Wives, and Warriors (Cascade Books, 2011).
"Esler has offered an obvious, yet much overlooked framework within
which to understand the influential rebellious angel's myth in the
Book of Watchers of 1 Enoch. This book should become necessary
reading for anyone exploring how it is that evil could be thought
to have emerged in proximity to God."
--Loren Stuckenbruck, Chair of New Testament, Ludwig Maximilian
University of Munich
"Philip Esler has written a fresh and important study of the early
Enoch literature, informed by a sociological perspective. His
fundamental insight is that the model for heaven is not the temple
but the royal court, and that the group behind this literature
consisted of scribes who were not priests. This potentially
groundbreaking study will reinvigorate the study of the oldest
Jewish apocalyptic literature."
-- John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism &
Interpretation, Yale Divinity School
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