{ "meta": { "schema_version": "1.2", "endpoint": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/index.json" }, "work": { "slug": "enoch-dream-visions", "name": "Book IV — Book of Dream Visions", "stream": "egyptian-hebrew", "epoch_reflected": "egypto-chaldean", "epoch_written": "greco-latin", "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha", "tradition": "Jewish pseudepigrapha", "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)", "year_approx": -200, "note": null, "books_slug": "charles--the-book-of-enoch", "books_slugs": null, "has_project_translation": false, "steiner_loci": [] }, "parents": [ { "slug": "book-of-enoch", "name": "The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)", "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/" } ], "translation": { "title": null, "author": null, "source": null }, "chapters": [ { "num": 1, "slug": "74-chapter-lxxxiii", "title": "Chapter LXXXIII — Enoch's First Dream", "words": 455, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/74-chapter-lxxxiii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/74-chapter-lxxxiii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The deluge foretold", "blurb": "Opens the Book of Dream Visions. Enoch's first dream-vision, seen before he took a wife: he sees heaven cast down upon the earth, the earth swallowed up by a great abyss, the mountains hanging on mountains — the coming deluge." }, { "num": 2, "slug": "75-chapter-lxxxiv", "title": "Chapter LXXXIV — Enoch's Prayer", "words": 306, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/75-chapter-lxxxiv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/75-chapter-lxxxiv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "That a remnant might remain", "blurb": "Enoch awakens trembling and prays that the Most High preserve some flesh of the children of men — that he not destroy all flesh nor leave the earth without inhabitant. Mahalalel his grandfather had counseled him to pray." }, { "num": 3, "slug": "76-chapter-lxxxv", "title": "Chapter LXXXV — The Second Dream: the White Bull", "words": 303, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/76-chapter-lxxxv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/76-chapter-lxxxv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Animal Apocalypse begins", "blurb": "Enoch begins the great Animal Apocalypse. He sees a white bull (Adam) coming forth from the earth; a female heifer (Eve) with him; two bulls — one black (Cain), one red (Abel). The black bull gores the red and the red disappears." }, { "num": 4, "slug": "77-chapter-lxxxvi", "title": "Chapter LXXXVI — The Fallen Stars and the Elephants", "words": 221, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/77-chapter-lxxxvi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/77-chapter-lxxxvi.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Stars falling from heaven; mating with cows", "blurb": "Enoch beholds a star fall from heaven, and after it many stars; they descend to the cattle and become bulls that mate with the cows. The cows bring forth elephants, camels, and asses (the giants). The cattle are filled with fear." }, { "num": 5, "slug": "78-chapter-lxxxvii", "title": "Chapter LXXXVII — The Coming of the Seven", "words": 154, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/78-chapter-lxxxvii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/78-chapter-lxxxvii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Seven white ones descending from heaven", "blurb": "Enoch sees seven white ones (the archangels) descending from heaven who seize the first star — Azâzêl. They lead him into the depth. One of them takes Enoch up by the hand to the high place to behold what happens." }, { "num": 6, "slug": "79-chapter-lxxxviii", "title": "Chapter LXXXVIII — The Stars Bound", "words": 151, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/79-chapter-lxxxviii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/79-chapter-lxxxviii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The fallen stars cast into the abyss", "blurb": "The first of the seven angels casts the fallen stars and the bulls of mixed origin into the abyss; the second pours upon them a sword that they may slay each other. The earth is cleansed in preparation for what is to come." }, { "num": 7, "slug": "80-chapter-lxxxix", "title": "Chapter LXXXIX — From the Flood to the Exile", "words": 3011, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/80-chapter-lxxxix/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/80-chapter-lxxxix.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The white bull Noah; the sheep of Israel; the seventy shepherds begin", "blurb": "The history of Israel told through animal symbols: Noah as a white bull becoming a man and building the ark; Abraham and the patriarchs as white bulls; Israel as sheep going down into Egypt; Moses leading them out; the wandering and the entry into the land; the kingdom and the exile. Toward the end the sheep are handed over to seventy shepherds." }, { "num": 8, "slug": "81-chapter-xc", "title": "Chapter XC — The Seventy Shepherds; the New Temple", "words": 1635, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/81-chapter-xc/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/81-chapter-xc.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Climax of the Animal Apocalypse", "blurb": "The seventy shepherds (angelic overseers of Israel's exile) destroy more sheep than commanded — their record is kept by another angel. The lambs (Maccabeans) grow horns; the great horn (the Messiah) appears. The Lord of the sheep arrives in wrath; the apostate sheep and the shepherds are judged; the old house (the Temple) is set aside; a new house (the messianic temple) is built; all the beasts and birds gather and become white bulls — the first of these a great white bull with great horns (the Messiah). The vision closes." } ] }