1 Enoch 18:11
Pseudepigrapha
8 And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains 9 is a region at the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. 10 And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike in height and depth. 11 And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it; there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. 12 I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired about them, 13 The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth; this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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2 Peter 2:4
New Testament
3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep. 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into Tartarus16 and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment, 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
Date: 120-130 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... In 1 Enoch 18:11 and 19:1–2, Uriel serves as the interpreting angel for sites comparable to Tartarus especially since the chasm is a sort of prison for the infamous watchers. In 2 Peter 2:4, in fact, the name of the watchers’ place of imprisonment is Tartarus. When we recall that the watchers’ prison in 1 Enoch 18:11, χάσμα μέγα/neqʿata ʿemuqa, is strikingly similar to Hesiod’s prison of the titans (also χάσμα μέγ’), the site described in 1 Enoch 18:11 and later explained in 1 Enoch 19:1–2 appears an excellent candidate for a type of Tartarus ..."
Bautch, Kelley Coblentz
A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19: “No One Has Seen What I Have Seen.”
(p. 134) Brill, 2003
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