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The Early Enoch Literature.
Title:
The Early Enoch Literature.
Author:
Boccaccini, Gabriele.
ISBN:
9789047421764
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (378 pages)
Series:
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; v.121

Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Contemporary Renaissance of Enoch Studies and the Enoch Seminar --- Gabriele Boccaccini -- Mapping Second Temple Judaism --- James C. VanderKam -- The Book of Enoch or Books of Enoch? The Textual Evidence for 1 Enoch --- Michael A. Knibb -- The Early Traditions Related to 1 Enoch from the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Overview and Assessment --- Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- The Place of the Torah in the Early Enoch Literature --- Andreas Bedenbender -- Enochic Wisdom and Its Relationship to the Mosaic Torah --- George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Measuring Time among the Jews: The Zadokite Priesthood, Enochism, and the Lay Tendencies of the Maccabean Period --- Paolo Sacchi -- The Astral Laws as the Basis of Time, Universal History, and the Eschatological Turn in the Astronomical Book and the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch --- Klaus Koch -- Cosmic Laws and Cosmic Imbalance: Wisdom, Myth and Apocalyptic in Early Enochic Writings --- Helge S. Kvanvig -- 1 Enoch and Ben Sira: Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Relationship --- Benjamin G. Wright -- Wisdom and Counter-Wisdom in 4QInstruction, Mysteries and 1 Enoch --- Eibert Tigchelaar -- Temples and the Temple in the Early Enoch tradition: Memory, Vision, and Expectation --- David W. Suter -- Temple and Priests in the Book of the Watchers, the Animal Apocalypse and the Apocalypse of Weeks --- Martha Himmelfarb -- The Sociological Settings of the Components of 1 Enoch --- Patrick Tiller -- "Sitting by the Waters of Dan, or The "Tricky Business" of Tracing the Social Pro?le of the Communities that Produced the Earliest Enochic Texts --- Pierluigi Piovanelli -- "Enochic Judaism" and the Sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls --- John J. Collins -- Enochians, Urban Essenes, Qumranites: Three Social Groups, One Intellectual Movement --- Gabriele Boccaccini.

Conclusion: Mapping the Threads --- Florentino García Martínez -- Enoch and the Enoch Tradition: A Bibliography, 2000-Present --- James Waddell -- Index.
Abstract:
This book provides an overview of the current debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in ancient Judaism, especially in relation to the Torah of Moses and to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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