Acknowledgements Grant Macaskill 1 The Entangled Enoch Introduction 1 Renewing the Imagination and Reconsidering Metaphors: on Trees, Rhizomes and the Ecology of Concepts 2 Relocating and Refiguring Groups and Networks in the Rhizome of Antiquity 3 On Frontiers, Colonialism and Orientalism (with Some Insights from Nissology) 4 The Distinctive Significance of Syria as Provenance Conclusions and Prospects: towards the Entangled Enoch Postscript: a Note on Translations and Transliteration2 Reviewing the Provenance of 2 Enoch 1 An Overview of Manuscripts and Recensions 2 The First Stages of Academic Research into 2 Enoch: Modern Slavic Scholarship 3 Reviewing the Debates in Non-Slavic Scholarship 4 Further Contributions: Pines, Himmelfarb, Reed and Alexander 5 The 5th Enoch Seminar: Naples 2009. No Longer Slavonic Only? 6 Conclusions A Postscript to Chapter 2: Samaritan Contexts for 2 Enoch?3 Reviewing the Date, Provenance and Composition History of the Parables of Enoch Reviewing the Dating and Provenance of the Parables of Enoch 1 The Absence of the Parables from Qumran and the Lack of Early External (i.e., Manuscript and Citation) Evidence 2 The Similarities and Differences with Demonstrably Early Enoch Material 3 The Presence of Imagery and Language That Is Similar to That Encountered in the New Testament 4 The Possibility That the Parables Contains Allusions to Specific Historical Events 5 The Distinctive Representation of Social and Economic Factors, including the Identification of the Kings and the Mighty Ones 6 The Composition of the Parables of Enoch Conclusions4 Storehouses and Measures Parallel Patterns in Metrology and Meteorology in the Parables of Enoch and 2 (Slavonic) Enoch 1 Storehouses, Treasuries and Measures: Documenting Parallels in the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch 2 Biblical Backgrounds 3 Parallels in the Dead Sea Scrolls 4 A Rabbinic Parallel in b.agigah 12b 5 Parallels in Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch) and the Hekhalot Literature 6 Parallels in Other "Pseudepigrapha" 7 Concluding Synthesis5 God, Enoch and the Secrets Theology, Cosmology, Cosmogony, Eschatology Introduction 1 The Distribution of "Secrets" in the Parables of Enoch and 1 Enoch 2 God in the Parables of Enoch 3 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 4 God and Cosmos in 2 Enoch: Eclectic Philosophy and Elements of Platonism 5 Comparing the Parables and 2 Enoch to Sefer Hekhalot Conclusions6 God, Wisdom and Humanity in the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch 1 Wisdom and Creation outside the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch: Some Framing Considerations 2 Wisdom in the Parables of Enoch 3 God, Wisdom and the Creation of Man in 2 Enoch Conclusions7 Bodily Ascents and Ontological Transformations Introduction 1 Problematizing "Monotheism" as a Context for "Deification" 2 Visionary Ascent in the Aramaic Enoch Literature and Other Apocalypses 2 Ascent and Ontological Transformation in the Parables of Enoch: an Embodied Turn? 4 Bodily Ascent and Ontological Transformation in 2 Enoch 5 Parallels between 2 Enoch and Manichaean or Mandaean Apocalypses Conclusions8 Practical and Symbolic Liturgy, Votive Offerings, and the Cult of the One God in 2 Enoch Introduction 1 2 Enoch and Practical Worship 2 Votive Offerings and Reciprocity: 2 Enoch 61:4&5 Conclusions9 Animal Offerings and Ritual Theorizing in 2 Enoch 1 Sacrificial Practice and Theorizing in Antiquity: Framing 2 Enoch in Its Potential Contexts 2 Philo of Alexandria 3 2 Enoch: the Head of the Altar and the Sacrificial Knife 4 Binding the Sacrifice by Four Legs 5 Theorizing Sacrifice in 2 Enoch: on Divine Sufficiency and the Human Condition Conclusions: Reconsidering 2 Enoch in the Contours of Antiquity10 Concluding Synthesis: the Entangled Enoch 1 Complicating Models and Culturing Rhizomes 2 The Significance of Groups within the Cultural Rhizome 3 Reviewing the Provenance of the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch 4 Common Patterns in the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch 5 Coloration and Context, Cultures and Fashions 6 Devotional Practices, Divine Reciprocity and the Logics of Sacrifice in 2 Enoch and Late Antiquity 7 Towards an Account of Transmission 8 The Pseudepigrapha and the Literate Liminal: Programmatic Implications Concluding Comments Bibliography Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources.