What is it about?
The Watchers myth about angelic sex, giant babies, and the Flood was quite popular in Judaism and Christianity, but it became more and more heretical as time passed. Ephrem of Nisibis in the 4th cent. CE is a good example of one who tried to overturn its popularity, but his attempt to overturn this story created a new angelic interpretation of the Flood.
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Why is it important?
The importance of the Syriac and Ethiopic communities are often ignored among early Christian history and most studies of the Watchers myth ignore the Syriac community. This study uses Ephrem to demonstrate the interconnection of the Syriac to both.
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I hope people enjoy all the twists in turns in both stories and the many hands it takes as it travels from Turkey to Ethiopia to the modern day
David Skelton
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This page is a summary of: Angels among us? The Watchers myth and angelology in Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis and the Ethiopic tradition, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, September 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0951820719875716.
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