Origins of Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls

The significance of the Genesis 6 story in literature from this period is much clearer. The Book of Watchers and Jubilees blame the watchers for the existence of evil spirits. These evil spirits lead people to worship idols and (in Jub.) to shed human blood.

The Origin of Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Stokes

Modern New Testament study generally attributes the introduction of sin in the world to the fall in Genesis 3. Judaism in the Second Temple, or intertestamental, period attributes the source of sin to multiple beings and events. Ryan Stokes (Yale Divinity School) explores the sources of sin as understood in the works of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

What is significant about the women in Matthew’s genealogy?

I’m reading through Amy Elizabeth Richter’s dissertation The Enochic Watchers’ Template and the Gospel of Matthew. Besides making the case that these specific women restore what was broken when the Watchers’ shared illicit knowledge and sorcery with humans – using the Watchers’ template against them so to speak, Richter does a great job in her introductory pages summarizing the salient aspects of how the Watchers’, in 1 Enoch, share the blame in bringing sin into the world.