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{en} Gabriele Boccaccini, ed. The Origins of Enochic Judaism. Turin, Italy: Zamorani, 2002.

Abstract

Proceedings of the First Enoch Seminar held in Florence in 2001.

"The rediscovery of Enochic Judaism is one of the major achievements of contemporary research in Second Temple Judaism ... We are at the beginning of a broad and promising field of research ... The goal of the conference was not to reach any agreement or compromise, but to share information and reach a better mutual understanding of different approaches by specialists who for years have been studying this literature from different perspectives ... The hope is not only to revive the memory of a lost patriarch and a lost movement, but to foster a new generation of specialists in Second Temple Judaism as an autonomous and dignified field of research" (From the Introduction by Gabriele Boccaccini).

Contents

• Introduction: The Rediscovery of Enochic Judaism and the Enoch Seminar

First Panel: The Origins of Enochic Judaism

• The watchers story, genesis and atra-hasis : a triangular reading / Helge S. Kvanvig
• Covenant and cosmology in the book of watchers and the astronomical book / Mark Elliott
• Traces of Enochic Judaism within the Hebrew Bible / Andreas Bedenbender
• The origins of Enoch traditions : the view from outside / Brian Schmidt

Second Panel: The Theology of Early Enoch Literature

• Theology and identity in the early Enoch literature / John J. Collins
• Origins and functions of the watchers theodicy / Mark Elliott
• The theology of early Enochism and apocalyptic: the problem of the relation between form and content of the apocalypses: the worldview of apocalypses / Paolo Sacchi
• A theology of the supernatural in the Book of the watchers?: an African perspective / Perluigi Piovanelli
• Genesis 6:1-4 as the basis for divergent readings during the second Temple period / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
• The theology of early Enoch literature / Adela Yarbro Collins

Third Panel: Enochians and Zadokites

• Toponymic Midrash in 1 Enoch and in other second Temple Jewish literature / Esther Eshel and Hanan Eshel
• The Book of the watchers and the priests of Jerusalem / Martha Himmelfarb
• Revisiting "Fallen angel, fallen priest" / David W. Suter
• Some remarks on the Book of the watchers, the priests, Enoch and Genesis, and 4Q208 / Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar
• Enochians and Zadokites / J. Harold Ellens, Florentino García Martínez

Fourth Panel: Enoch Literature and Wisdom Literature

• Qohelet and enochism : a critical relationship / Luca Mazzinghi
• Competing wisdoms: 1 Enoch and Sirach / Randal A. Argall
• Sirach and 1 Enoch: some further considerations / Benjamin G. Wright
• Jewish apocalypticism: a child of mantic wisdom? / Andreas Bedenbender
• Enoch literature and wisdom literature / Michael A. Knibb

Fifth Panel: The Origins of the Enoch Group

• Origin and identity of the Enoch group / Helge S. Kvanvig
• The cultural setting of Enoch-apocalypticism: new reflections / Ithamar Gruenwald
• A rare consensus among Enoch specialists: the date of the earliest Enoch books / James H. Charlesworth

Bibliography / J. Harold Ellens

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