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New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012) is a volume edited by Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini, with the collaboration of Jason M. Zurawski.

Abstract

"New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only presents a collection of papers from the fifth conference of the Enoch Seminar. The conference re-examines 2 Enoch, an early Jewish apocalyptic text previously known to scholars only in its Slavonic translation, in light of recently identified Coptic fragments. This approach helps to advance the understanding of many key issues of this enigmatic and less explored Enochic text. One of the important methodological lessons of the current volume lies in the recognition that the Adamic and Melchizedek traditions, the mediatorial currents which play an important role in the apocalypse, are central for understanding the symbolic universe of the text. The volume also contains the recently identified Coptic fragments of 2 Enoch, introduced to scholars for the first time during the conference"--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2012 (Studia Judaeoslavica, 4).

Contents

• Preface / Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini

PART ONE: 2 ENOCH

• No Longer “Slavonic” Only: 2 Enoch Attested in Coptic from Nubia / Joost L. Hagen

TEXT AND DATING OF 2 ENOCH

• The “Book of the Secrets of Enoch” (2 En): Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview / Christfried Böttrich

• The Provenance of 2 Enoch: A Philological Perspective. A Response to C. Böttrich’s Paper “The ‘Book of the Secrets of Enoch’ (2 En): Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview” / Liudmila Navtanovich

• 2 Enoch: Manuscripts, Recensions, and Original Language / Grant Macaskill

• The Sacerdotal Traditions of 2 Enoch and the Date of the Text / Andrei A. Orlov

• Excavating 2 Enoch: The Question of Dating and the Sacerdotal Traditions / David W. Suter

CONTENT AND CONTEXT OF 2 ENOCH

• 2 Enoch and the New Perspective on Apocalyptic / Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis

• The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 Enoch / Andrei A. Orlov

• Patriarch, Prophet, Author, Angelic Rival: Exploring the Relationship of 1 Enoch to 2 Enoch in Light of the Figure of Enoch / Daniel Assefa and Kelley Coblentz Bautch

• Calendrical Elements in 2 Enoch / Basil Lourié

• 2 Enoch and Halakhah / Lawrence H. Schiffman

• Halakha, Calendars, and the Provenances of 2 Enoch / Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

PART TWO: ADAM, ENOCH, AND MELCHIZEDEK: MEDIATORIAL FIGURES IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM

(a) ADAMIC TRADITIONS

• Adam as a Mediatorial Figure in Second Temple Jewish Literature / John R. Levison

• Better Watch Your Back, Adam: Another Adam and Eve Tradition in Second Temple Judaism / Lester L. Grabbe

• Adamic Traditions in 2 Enoch and in the Books of Adam and Eve / Johannes Magliano-Tromp

• Adamic Traditions in Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature / Alexander Toepel

• Adamic Tradition in Slavonic Manuscripts (Vita Adae et Evae and Apocryphal Cycle about the Holy Tree) / Anissava Miltenova

(b) MELCHIZEDEK TRADITIONS

• Melchizedek Traditions in Second Temple Judaism / Eric F. Mason

• Melchizedek at Qumran and in Judaism: A Response / Devorah Dimant

• Enoch and Melchizedek: The Concern for Supra-Human Priestly Mediators in 2 Enoch / Charles A. Gieschen

• Melchizedek in Some Early Christian Texts and 2 Enoch / Harold W. Attridge

• “Much to Say and Hard to Explain”: Melchizedek in Early Christian Literature, Theology, and Controversy / Pierluigi Piovanelli

• On Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, and Eve / Daphna Arbel

• Bibliography on 2 Enoch / Andrei A. Orlov

External links

• Brill