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==Overview==


The interest in Enochic Studies first developed in Italy in esoteric circles during the Renaissance. Philosopher [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]] and alchemist [[Giovanni Agostino Panteo]] represent the two souls of the movement, the former more scholarly-oriented toward the search for manuscript evidence, the latter more engaged in magical and visionary experiences. The attempt of Panteo to recover the [[Enochian Language]] had a follow-up in England with [[John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelley]], while the philological approach became predominant in Italy after the publication of the [[Enoch Fragments of Syncellus]] in 1606 by Italian-Dutch scholar [[Joseph Justus Scaliger]]. [[Scipione Sgambati]], [[Pompeo Sarnelli]] and later, the young [[Daniele Manin]] published some of the earliest and finest commentaries on the Fragments.
'''Enochic Studies in Italy / Italian Scholarship on Enoch'''


In 1775 [[Agostino Antonio Giorgi]] was asked by Card. [[Leonardo Antonelli]] to examine a manuscript of the Ethiopic text of 1 Enoch present in Rome. Giorgi recognized the importance of the document but no edition or translation of the documents were made. The modern study of 1 Enoch would start in England with the manuscripts brought there from Ethiopia by [[James Bruce]] in those same years. Only some decades later, [[Angelo Mai]] acquired the manuscript for the Vatican Library; Mai also published the ''editio princeps'' of a Greek fragment of 1 Enoch 89:42-49 he discovered at the Vatican Library.


No Italian scholars contributed significantly to the early development of Enochic Studies. An Italian translation of the Ethiopic Enoch appeared only in 1908 by [[F. Feiers]] and E. De Giovanni. Only Jesuit [[Alfredo Maria Vitti]] kept alive the interest on international studies on Enoch with some contributions in the 1930s, including an article in the Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.
== List of works (in Italian language)==


The renaissance of Enochic Studies in Italy occurred in the late 1970s, and once again the two souls of the movement reemerged, the esoteric approach of [[Mario Pincherle]] and the philological approach of [[Paolo Sacchi]]. Turin University Professor [[Paolo Sacchi]] made 1 Enoch the center of his studies on Second Temple Judaism and became the catalyst of an Italian school in Enochic Studies. In 1979 he launched the journal [[Henoch]] and developed a theory that made to the Enochic concept of the origin of evil the generative idea of the Jewish apocalyptic tradition. In the 1990s his ideas were developed by his students [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (in the United States) and [[Sabino Chialà]] (in Italy) and attracted the attention of international scholarship. In 2001 [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] inaugurated the first [[Enoch Seminar]] in Florence, Italy, followed in 2006 by the series of the [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] and in 2009 by the launching of [[4 Enoch: The Online Enciclopedia of Second Temple Judaism]]. Thanks mainly to the efforts of the Italian school, the concept of [[Enochic Judaism]] entered the vocabulary of international studies in Second Temple Judaism. In more than a decade of activity, the meetings of the Enoch Seminars have gathered international specialists in Enochic Studies and produced numerous publications and fostered the emergence of a new generation of Enochic Scholars, which in Italy is represented by [[Giovanni Ibba]], [[Luca Arcari]], [[Cristiana Tretti]] and [[Pierpaolo Bertalotto]].
* See [[:Category:Enochic Studies--Italian]]
 
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