Enoch - Heaven's Messenger
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University of Gloucestershire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 30
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Online Exhibition
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
- Dissemination of this output was severely disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic with the cancellation/postponement of exhibitions in Gloucester and Canterbury cathedrals, scheduled for 2020. These were replaced by an online exhibition and catalogue in Spring 2020 (Book of Enoch | An exhibition of twelve paintings on 1 Enoch and an illuminated model of an Ethiopian church by Angus Pryor (bookofenoch2020.com)
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Enoch: Heaven’s Messenger’ is the product of a collaboration between Angus Pryor and Professor Philip Esler, Portland Chair in New Testament Studies, also at the University of Gloucestershire. The project focuses on 1 Enoch, arguably the most important extra-biblical Jewish text to have survived from antiquity and a canonical part of the Old Testament for the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Churches.
The research project began with a BA/Leverhulme small research grant (1 Enoch and Contemporary Theology) between 2015 and 2016, with Esler as Principal Investigator. Pryor became a key collaborator at an early stage and worked alongside a team of world-leading biblical scholars who acted as named Co-Investigators and partners.
Pryor’s overall aim in ‘Enoch: Heaven’s Messenger’ was to produce paintings that ‘become a gateway to the greater knowledge of the text of 1 Enoch’ (Pryor, 2017 p.193). In addition, the ‘Enoch: Heaven’s Messenger’ series was created specifically for display in ecclesiastical spaces, as part of a theologically informed but disruptive process of biblical interpretation.
This disruptive process was enhanced by 1 Enoch’s position as the paradigm of the uncomfortable text in the biblical canon. The project resulted in sequential series of 12 paintings and a model Ethiopian church with exhibitions originally scheduled for Gloucester and Canterbury cathedrals in spring 2020. However, these have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and were replaced by an online exhibition and catalogue.
The project resulted in two additional textual outputs:
• Pryor, Angus, ‘1 Enoch: an Artist’s Response’, pp.191–5 in Esler, Philip F., ed. The Blessing of Enoch: 1 Enoch and Contemporary Theology. Cascade Books, Oregon, 2017.
• Esler, Philip F and Pryor, Angus (2020) ‘Painting 1 Enoch: Biblical Interpretation, Theology, and Artistic Practice’. Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture, 50 (3), pp.136–153.
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- Non-English
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