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RE: orion-list War Scroll and Cargo cults
Albert,
I made the suggestion some years ago in a paper read at the national AAR/SBL
that the Similitudes of Enoch might be viewed in light of similar cargo cult
phenomenon. I take them to have been produced during the crisis threatening
the temple under Gaius Caligula. The paper was included in the SBL seminar
papers:
"The Measure of Redemption: The Similitudes of Enoch, Nonviolence, and
National Integrity," Society of Biblical Literature 1983 Seminar Papers,
ed. Kent Harold Richards (Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983): 167-76.
I encourage you to develop the idea, because I think that it has merit.
David Suter
Saint Martin's College
For private reply, e-mail to "Suter, David" <dsuter@stmartin.edu>
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