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'''1 Enoch: 2. Book of Parables, Book of the Luminaries ''' (2012) is a book by [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] and [[James C. VanderKam]].  
'''1 Enoch: 2. Book of Parables, Book of the Luminaries ''' (2012) is a book by [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] and [[James C. VanderKam]].  
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"A commentary on the First Book of Enoch, 37-82."
"A commentary on the First Book of Enoch, 37-82."


==Editions and translations==
"1 Enoch presents interpreters with a complex knot of interrelated puzzles concerning the history of early Judaism, the trajectories of wisdom and apocalyptic traditions, and the role of astronomical observation in cosmological speculation - all tied up with the bewildering history of the book's composition and transmission, in different languages and manuscript traditions, over centuries. Two of the world's preeminent scholars offer masterful judgments on all of these questions out of the erudition gained over long and distinguished careers. The result is a remarkably lucid and accessible commentary that will be the definitive resource on 1 Enoch for decades."--Publisher description.
 
==Editions==


Published in Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2012 ([[Hermeneia]]).  
Published in Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2012 ([[Hermeneia]]).  

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1 Enoch: 2. Book of Parables, Book of the Luminaries (2012) is a book by George W.E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam.

Abstract

"A commentary on the First Book of Enoch, 37-82."

"1 Enoch presents interpreters with a complex knot of interrelated puzzles concerning the history of early Judaism, the trajectories of wisdom and apocalyptic traditions, and the role of astronomical observation in cosmological speculation - all tied up with the bewildering history of the book's composition and transmission, in different languages and manuscript traditions, over centuries. Two of the world's preeminent scholars offer masterful judgments on all of these questions out of the erudition gained over long and distinguished careers. The result is a remarkably lucid and accessible commentary that will be the definitive resource on 1 Enoch for decades."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2012 (Hermeneia).

Contents

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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