Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 & 2 Enoch

Authors

Samuel Zinner

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Description

My beloved late father introduced me as a child to the mysterious Ethiopic Book of Enoch. My father was of mixed ancestry, his mother being of Native American and English-Scottish descent, while his father was a Protestant Volga German who observed Saturday Sabbath rather than Sunday, and perhaps not surprisingly his ancestors were Ashkenazi Jews who in the high Middle Ages had been forced to convert to the Christian faith under pain of death. My father had a fundamentally indigenous soul, so much so that even his Christianity, like that of his mother, was of a fundamentally indigenous character. Although I myself was raised in a Christian household, nevertheless I experienced the world in a profoundly indigenous mode, immersing myself in Blackfoot thought and practice under the influence of my father’s frequent observations about the family’s Blackfoot ancestry. The family still has his grandmother’s enrolment card listing her as being of Mohawk blood in the Six Nations Confederacy. The additional Blackfoot component made sense in light of the Crow name Awateé Dakákus, Bird Faraway, which my own grandmother gave to me when I was a child living in the Mojave Desert, since the Crow and Blackfoot tribes have shared a mutual history of not only conflict but of intermarriage as well.

ISBN

978-1-890-71859-6

Owning Institution

Interpreter Foundation Books

Publisher

Interpreter Foundation Books

Publication Date

2014

City

Orem, UT

Keywords

Enoch, indigenous, ancestry, Blackfoot tribes, Christianity

Disciplines

Mormon Studies | Religion

Recommended Citation

Zinner, Samuel, "Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 & 2 Enoch" (2014). Interpreter Foundation Books. 2.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ifb/2