Episode 7: Watch out for the Watchers

What happens when angels patrolling the newly-created world get a little too randy and start behaving recklessly?

This episode marks our transition to a more chronological attempt at narrating the history of the Devil. We start with an important set of stories about the origins of demons that takes root around the interpretation and retelling of a rather cryptic moment in the book of Genesis, chapter 6. Taking the Genesis version as our starting point, we move on to discuss Second Temple era pseudepigrapha (= non-canonical works that present themselves as having been recorded by major characters from the Hebrew Bible.) We pay special attention to the books of Enoch & Jubilees and the demonologies that result from these dramatic new renditions of the Watchers Story.

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