the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

Introduction xxxiii
Weisse, Die Evangelien-Frage, 1856^ pp. 214-224. Weisse
agrees with Hofmann and Philippi in maintaining a Christian
authorship of the book, but his advocacy of this view springs
from the dogmatic principle that the entire idea of Christianity
was in its pure originality derived from the self-consciousness
of Christ.
KosTLiN, ' Ueber die Entstehung des Buchs Henoch' [Theol.
Jahrb., 1856, pp. 240-279, 370-386). Kostlin, as we have
already remarked, contended against Ewald that the book of
Enoch did not arise through the editing of independent works,
but that by far the larger part of Enoch was the work of one
author which through subsequent accretions became the present
book. Though this view must be speedily abandoned, it must be
confessed that the articles in which it is advocated are masterly
performances, and possess a permanent value for the student of
Enoch.
HiLGENPELD, Bie jMiscIie Apokalyptih, 1857, pp. 91-184. This
work, like that of Kostlin, is of lasting worth and indispensable in
the study of Enoch. We cannot, however, say so much for the
conclusions arrived at. Many of these are, in fact, demonstrably
wrong. According to Hilgenfeld, the groundwork consists of
1-16 20-36 72-105 written not later than 98 b. c. The later
additions, i. e. 17-19 37-71 106-108 are the work of a Christian
Gnostic about the time between Saturninus and Marcion. There
are no Noachic interpolations.
There is no occasion to enter on the, for the most part, barren
polemic between Hilgenfeld and Volkmar on the interpretation
and date of Enoch, to which we owe the following writings
of Hilgenfeld : ' Die jiidische Apokalyptik und die neuesten
Forschungen' (Zeitschr.f. wissenscliaftl. T/ieol., iii. 1860, pp. 319-
334} :
' Die Entstehungszeit des urspriingliehen Buchs Henoch '
[Z. f. w. Theol., iv. 1861, pp. 212-222) : 'Noch ein Wort iiberdas
Buch Henoch' {Z. f. w. Theol., v. 1862, pp. 216-221). In
Z. f. w. Theol., XV. 1872, pp. 584-587, there is a rejoinder to
Gebhardt (see below).