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'''George W.E. Nickelsburg''' is an American scholar, ''emeritus'' at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), USA.
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==Biography==
'''George W.E. Nickelsburg''' is an American scholar, ''emeritus'' at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), USA, PhD at Harvard Divinity School, founding member of the [[Enoch Seminar]], a specialist in Second Temple Judaism and the author of the two-volume Hermeneia commentary on the [[First Book of Enoch]]. George W. E. Nickelsburg was born in San Jose California in 1934 and now resides in Issaquah, Washington. He received his education at Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary, Washington University, and Harvard University, where he did his doctoral work with Krister Stendahl, Helmut Koester, Frank Moore Cross, and John Strugnell. In 1963-64, he was Thayer Fellow at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and a field supervisor in archaeological digs at Tel Ta'annek, the Wadi-ed-Daliyeh, and Tel el-Ful. For three years· he served as pastor of a Lutheran parish in Akron, Ohio. Then for more than three decades he taught on the faculty of The University of Iowa, where he was director of its School of Religion for five years and developed public programming in religion and the arts. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2000. The history and literature of Second Temple Judaism and the relationships between early Judaism and Christian origins have been the special focus of Nickelsburg's research. In the Society of Biblical Literature, he was chair of the Pseudepigrapha Group (1973-80), co-chair of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group, and co-editor of the series Septuagint and Cognate Studies. He has served on the editorial boards of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Dead Sea Discoveries, the Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period: 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. (1999), the Dictionary of Religious Writings in Late Antiquity (2006), and Religion & Theology/ Religie & Theologie. Founding member in 2001 of the [[Enoch Seminar]].
Born in 1934. PhD at Harvard Divinity School. Professor in the Dept of Religious Studies. Founding member of the [[Enoch Seminar]].


==Works on Second Temple Judaism==
==Works ==
 
====Festschrift====
 
* [[For a Later Generation: The Transformation of Tradition in Israel, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity ~ Festschrift George W.E. Nickelsburg (2000 Argall, Bow, Werline), edited volume]]


====Books====  
====Books====  
*''[[Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism]]'' (Cambridge Mass. 1972)
 
*''[[Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah]]'' (Philadelphia 1981; 20052)
*[[Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism (1972 Nickelsburg), book]]
*''[[1 Enoch: A Commentary]]'' (Minneapolis 2001)
 
*''[[Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins]]: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation'' (Minneapolis 2003)
*[[Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah (1981 Nickelsburg), book]]
*''[[1 Enoch: A New Translation]]'' (Minneapolis 2004)
 
*[[Faith and Piety in Early Judaism: Texts and Documents (1983 Nickelsburg, Stone), book]]
 
*[[1 Enoch: A Commentary (2001 Nickelsburg), book]]
 
*[[Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins (2003 Nickelsburg), book]]
 
*[[1 Enoch: A New Translation (2004 Nickelsburg/VanderKam), book]]
 
*[[Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, 2nd ed. (2005 @1981 Nickelsburg), book]]
 
*[[Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity, 2nd ed. (2006 @1972 Nickelsburg), book]]
 
*[[Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety, 2nd ed. (2009 @1983 Nickelsburg, Stone), book]]
 
*[[1 Enoch: 2. Book of Parables, Book of the Luminaries ~ Hermeneia (2012 Nickelsburg, VanderKam), book]]


====Edited volumes====
====Edited volumes====
*''[[Studies on the Testament of Moses]]'' (Missoula 1973)
*''[[Studies on the Testament of Joseph]]'' (Missoula 1976)
*(with [[Robert A. Kraft]]). [[Studies on the Testament of Abraham]] (Missoula 1976)
*(with [[Michael E. Stone]]). ''[[Faith and Piety in Early Judaism]]: Texts and Documents'' (Philadelphia 1983)
*(with [[Robert A. Kraft]]). [[Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters]] (Atlanta 1986)


[[Category:Scholars|Nickelsburg]]
*[[Studies on the Testament of Moses (1973 Nickelsburg), edited volume]]
[[Category:American|Nickelsburg]]
 
[[Category:Born in the 1930s|Nickelsburg]]
*[[Studies on the Testament of Joseph (1976 Nickelsburg), edited volume]]
 
*[[Studies on the Testament of Abraham (1976 Nickelsburg/Kraft), edited volume]]
 
*[[Ideal Figures in Ancient Judaism: Profiles and Paradigms (1980 Collins, Nickelsburg), edited volume]]
 
*[[Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters (1986 Kraft/Nickelsburg), edited volume]]
 
*[[Christians among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (1986)]]
*[[The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester (1991)]]
 
====Essays====
 
*[[Apocalyptic and Myth in 1 Enoch 6-11 (1977 Nickelsburg), essay]]
 
*[[The Apocalyptic Message of 1 Enoch 92-105 (1977 Nickelsburg), essay]]
 
*[[The Parables of Enoch and the Manuscripts from Qumran (2012 Nickelsburg), essay]]
 
==External links==
 
* Wikipedia.en -- Wikipedia.de -- Wikipedia.fr -- Wikipedia.it -- Wikipedia.es
 
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 17:19, 25 November 2019

George W.E. Nickelsburg

George W.E. Nickelsburg is an American scholar, emeritus at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), USA, PhD at Harvard Divinity School, founding member of the Enoch Seminar, a specialist in Second Temple Judaism and the author of the two-volume Hermeneia commentary on the First Book of Enoch. George W. E. Nickelsburg was born in San Jose California in 1934 and now resides in Issaquah, Washington. He received his education at Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary, Washington University, and Harvard University, where he did his doctoral work with Krister Stendahl, Helmut Koester, Frank Moore Cross, and John Strugnell. In 1963-64, he was Thayer Fellow at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and a field supervisor in archaeological digs at Tel Ta'annek, the Wadi-ed-Daliyeh, and Tel el-Ful. For three years· he served as pastor of a Lutheran parish in Akron, Ohio. Then for more than three decades he taught on the faculty of The University of Iowa, where he was director of its School of Religion for five years and developed public programming in religion and the arts. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2000. The history and literature of Second Temple Judaism and the relationships between early Judaism and Christian origins have been the special focus of Nickelsburg's research. In the Society of Biblical Literature, he was chair of the Pseudepigrapha Group (1973-80), co-chair of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group, and co-editor of the series Septuagint and Cognate Studies. He has served on the editorial boards of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Dead Sea Discoveries, the Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period: 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. (1999), the Dictionary of Religious Writings in Late Antiquity (2006), and Religion & Theology/ Religie & Theologie. Founding member in 2001 of the Enoch Seminar.

Works

Festschrift

Books

Edited volumes

Essays

External links

  • Wikipedia.en -- Wikipedia.de -- Wikipedia.fr -- Wikipedia.it -- Wikipedia.es