Essays on the Book of Enoch (2009 Knibb), book
Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions (2009) is a book by Michael A. Knibb.
Abstract
"This volume brings together twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions, which were originally published in a wide range of journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings and thematic collections. A number of the essays are concerned with the issues raised by the complex textual history and literary genesis of 1 Enoch, but the majority are concerned with the interpretation of specific texts or with themes such as messianism. The essays illustrate some of the dominant concerns of Michael Knibb's work, particularly the importance of the idea of exile; the way in which older texts regarded as authoritative were reinterpreted in later writings; and the connections between the apocalyptic writings and the sapiential literature."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in Leiden: Brill, 2009 (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, 22).
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1. The Ethiopic Book of Enoch in Recent Research
- 2. The Book of Enoch or Books of Enoch? The Textual Evidence for 1 Enoch
- 3. Christian Adoption and Transmission of Jewish Pseudepigrapha: The Case of 1 Enoch
- 4. Interpreting the Book of Enoch: Reflections on a Recently Published Commentary
- 5. The Book of Enoch in the Light of the Qumran Wisdom Literature
- 6. The Use of Scripture in 1 Enoch 17–19
- 7. The Structure and Composition of the Book of Parables
- 8. The Date of the Parables of Enoch: A Critical Review
- 9. The Translation of 1 Enoch 70.1: Some Methodological Issues
- 10. The Text-critical Value of the Quotations from 1 Enoch in Ethiopic writings
- Part II
- 11. The Exile in the Literature of the Intertestamental Period
- 12. Exile in the Damascus Document
- 13. Jubilees and the Origins of the Qumran Community.
- 14. Perspectives on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: The Levi Traditions
- 15. Apocalyptic and Wisdom in 4 Ezra
- 16. Isaianic Traditions in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
- 17. Messianism in the Pseudepigrapha in the Light of the Scrolls
- 18. Eschatology and Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- 19. The Septuagint and Messianism: Problems and Issues
- 20. Temple and Cult in Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical Writings from before the Common Era
- 21. Temple and Cult in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: Future Perspectives