In 2 Enoch 19, the author uses a similar idea to 1 Enoch 100:10; although in this text, angels record and study the movements of the heavenly bodies for “evil activity,” working to “harmonize all existence, heavenly and earthly” (19:3). The author also expands Gen 1:14, reminiscent of Jubilees (see next subsection) connecting newborns and horoscopes with cosmological authority:
And I appointed the sun over the illumination of the day, but the moon and stars over the illumination of the night. And the sun goes in accordance with each animal, and the twelve animals are the succession of the months. And I assigned their names and the animals of their seasons, and their connection with the newborn, and their horoscopes, and how they revolve. Then evening came and morning came—the fifth day. …show more content…
48:1-4, the path of the sun is authoritative for understanding God’s wisdom: He fixed days and hours “by His own wisdom, that is everything visible and invisible.” The sun, again as representative authority as in 1 En. 21:3, is a constant reminder from the author, just as the Slavonic Enochian author wrote “You must hand over the books to your children, and throughout all your generations, and to your relatives, and among all nations who are discerning so that they may fear God, and so that they may accept them” (2 En. 48:6).
Jubilees
Reference to cosmos as authority develops from the first chapter of Genesis as the Jubileen author focused on the sun:
And on the fourth day he made the sun and the moon and the stars. And he set them in the firmament of heaven so that they might give light upon the whole earth and rule over the day and the night and separate light and darkness. 9 And the LORD set the sun as a great sign upon the earth for days, sabbaths, months, feast (days), years, sabbaths of years, jubilees, and for all of the (appointed) times of the years
And I appointed the sun over the illumination of the day, but the moon and stars over the illumination of the night. And the sun goes in accordance with each animal, and the twelve animals are the succession of the months. And I assigned their names and the animals of their seasons, and their connection with the newborn, and their horoscopes, and how they revolve. Then evening came and morning came—the fifth day. …show more content…
48:1-4, the path of the sun is authoritative for understanding God’s wisdom: He fixed days and hours “by His own wisdom, that is everything visible and invisible.” The sun, again as representative authority as in 1 En. 21:3, is a constant reminder from the author, just as the Slavonic Enochian author wrote “You must hand over the books to your children, and throughout all your generations, and to your relatives, and among all nations who are discerning so that they may fear God, and so that they may accept them” (2 En. 48:6).
Jubilees
Reference to cosmos as authority develops from the first chapter of Genesis as the Jubileen author focused on the sun:
And on the fourth day he made the sun and the moon and the stars. And he set them in the firmament of heaven so that they might give light upon the whole earth and rule over the day and the night and separate light and darkness. 9 And the LORD set the sun as a great sign upon the earth for days, sabbaths, months, feast (days), years, sabbaths of years, jubilees, and for all of the (appointed) times of the years