Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (2009 Boccaccini, Ibba), edited volume

Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (2009) is a volume edited by Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba.

Abstract

Proceedings of the Fourth Enoch Seminar (Camaldoli 2007).

"The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document." (Synopsis provided by the Publisher)

Editions and translations

Published in the United States (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009). Online preview, at Google Books.

Table of Contents

• Gabriele Boccaccini, Preface: The Enigma of Jubilees and the Lesson of the Enoch Seminar

Part One - Jubilees and Its Literary Context

• James C. VanderKam, The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees
• Michael Segal, The Composition of Jubilees
• John S. Bergsma, The Relationship between Jubilees and the Early Enochic Books (Astronomical Book and Book of the Watchers
• Matthias Henze, Daniel and Jubilees
• James M. Scott, The Chronologies of the Apocalypse of Weeks and the Book of Jubilees
• Esther Eshel, The Aramaic Levi Document, The Genesis Apocryphon, and Jubilees: A Study of Shared Traditions
• Lawrence H. Schiffman, The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scrolls
• Benjamin G. Wright, Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition
• Andrei A. Orlov, The Heavenly Counterpart of Moses in the Book of Jubilees
• Lester L. Grabbe, Jubilees and the Samaritan Traditon

Part Two - The Melting of Mosaic and Enochic Traditions

• Helge S. Kvanvig, Enochic Judaism: A Judaism without the Torah and the Temple?
• William K. Gilders, The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees
• Gabriele Boccaccini, From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakah
• Jacques van Ruiten, Abram's Prayer: The Coherence of the pericopes in Jubilees 12:16-27
• Hindy Najman, Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity

Part Three - Jubilees between Enoch and Qumran

• Aharon Shemesh, 4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran
• Lutz Doering, Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees
• Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees
• Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Book of Jubilees and the Origin of Evil
• Betsy Halpern-Amaru, The Festivals of Pesah and Massot in the Book of Jubilees
• John C. Endres, Eschatological Impulses in Jubilees
• Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees
• Annette Yoshiko Reed, Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in Jubilees: The Evidence of Angelology and Demonology
• Erik Larson, Worship in Jubilees and Enoch
• Martha Himmelfarb, The Book of Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism

Part Four - Where Does Jubilees Belong?

• David W. Suter, Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood
• David R. Jackson, Jubilees and Enochic Judaism
• Eyal Regev, Jubilees, Qumran, and the Essenes
• Veronika Bachmann and Isaac W. Oliver, The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, 1850-Present