This live five-week course will take place every Tuesday from September 3-October 1, 2024 at 8PM Eastern. Each session consists of a lecture by Fr. Stephen followed by a Q&A. The course is hosted on the OSI Mighty Networks platform. During registration you will be prompted to create a Mighty Networks account (free with purchase of course). Purchasers will be able to view the recordings once the class has ended.
Frequently asked questions can be found here. For any other questions, technical help, or more information, please contact Maggie Wissink at mwissink@saintconstantine.org
The Book of Enoch, or 1 Enoch, was one of the most widely read texts within Judaism in the centuries leading up to the birth of Christ. Elements of the Book of Enoch were influential on the writers of the New Testament, and Enoch was quoted by St. Jude in his Epistle. While Enoch fell out of favor with later Rabbinic Judaism, it remained a major source for theology throughout the first millennium, long after it was relegated to the apocrypha and left out of the Christian Old Testament. This course will discuss the reception history of the Book of Enoch and give an overview of the contents of the book, especially as 1 Enoch influenced the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Orthodox Christian theology.