George W. E. Nickelsburg on "The Temple According to 1 Enoch"

This is a presentation by George W. E. Nickelsburg (Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa) on “The Temple According to 1 Enoch” at the conference “Enoch and the Temple,” on February 19, 2013, at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He is a renowned scholar of 1 Enoch and is responsible for the Hermeneia commentaries on it.

His comment about Enoch being identified as the “Son of Man” is from 1 Enoch 71:14. He does not add though that this text clarifies that the Son of Man “was born for righteousness.” This is the only time in the Parables where the Son of Man is spoken of as being born. I therefore think it may cryptically mean that the Son of Man would be born from Enoch. Interestingly, the messianic genealogy in Luke 3:23-38 includes Enoch in Luke 3:37. (As this genealogy has 77 names with Enoch at the seventh place, that would make Jesus the 70^th from Enoch.)