Abstract

The teaching about fallen angels as the cause of the existence of evil is present in most ancient apocalyptic intertestamental texts, among which is the Ethiopian Book of Enoch. The texts that speak of the existence of evil would be midra of the biblical description of Gen 3 and 6, 1-4. The Enochian tradition seems to transfer the answer on the beginnings of evil to the celestial libellus, out of man. It seems that on the basis of the totality of sin there is the evil that was born in world of spiritual beings. That „great sin” and the teaching of Azazele - Semichaze it is a reference to the epoch in which the reform of Ezra was maturing. The behavior of angels in the human world can be, in the thought of the author, the expression of the situation existential of the man contemporary to him, who asked himself the question about the persistent evil and that waited for God's answer, made in the Book of Genesis. The most important conclusion here is the reference of the beginnings of evil to God's covenant with Israel. It is not only a question of disobedience, as presented by Gen 3 and 6, 1-4, but of problem of making everything that is God's spiritual gift reduced to a derogatory level.