Gabriele Boccaccini (b.1958), Italian-American scholar

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Gabriele Boccaccini (b.1958) is an Italian-born American scholar, at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI), USA.

E-mail contact: gbocca@umich.edu

Biography

Born in 1958 in Florence, Italy. Laurea (1983) in Early Christianity at the University of Florence, Italy. PhD (1991) in Judaic Studies at the University of Turin, Italy (under the supervision of Paolo Sacchi). Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins at the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan. Founder and director of the Enoch Seminar. Editor-in-chief of the journal Henoch and of 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Middle Judaism (1991 Boccaccini), book
  • Il medio giudaismo (1993 Boccaccini), book (Italian ed.)
• Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts (1992 Boccaccini), book
• Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (1998 Boccaccini), book
  • Oltre l'ipotesi essenica (2003 Boccaccini), book (Italian ed.)
• Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), book
  • I giudaismi del Secondo Tempio (2008 Boccaccini), book (Italian ed.)

Edited volumes

• The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• The Early Enoch Literature (2007 Boccaccini/Collins), edited volume
• Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume

Websites

• The Journal Henoch website: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity website
• The Enoch Seminar website: International Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins website
• 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Research website

Translations

• Gli pseudepigrafi dell'Antico Testamento e il Nuovo Testamento (1990 Charlesworth), book (Italian ed.)

Contributions to edited volumes

• Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment (2006 Barclay/Gathercole), edited volume
• Studies in the Book of Ben Sira (2008 Xeravits), edited volume
• Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution (2009 Gitelman), edited volume