Welcome to 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins) -- International Research, Scholarship & Fiction, from the 15th century to the present

• Breaking News. Oct 26, 2010. Jan Alberto Soggin (1926-2010) passed away. He was Professor at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome and a leading international specialist in the field of Biblical Studies. His History of Israel and Introduction to the Old Testament were international bestsellers.

• Breaking News. Oct 28, 2010. Israeli Archaeologist Ehud Netzer (1934-2010) passed away. A specialist of Herodian archaeology, is renowned for his excavations at the Herodion. He recently annonced the discovery of the remains of the tomb of Herod the Great.

4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins is an academic project of the Enoch Seminar, created and directed by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) with the late Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Loren T. Stuckenbruck (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA).

Visit the Community Portal, to see the List of Registered Authors; and the Current Events, to see most recent News from the field.

The Encyclopedia aims to offer a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to scholarly research in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, i.e. from Ezekiel to the completion of the New Testament and the Mishnah. With more than 8,000 entries, "4 Enoch" provides a comprehensive Who's Who of the period, as well as Biographies of Scholars and Authors, and Abstracts of scholarly and fictional Works, authored from the 16th century to the present, all around the world. The Encyclopedia is the collective work of international specialists in the field.

For more details on the website, see About 4 Enoch. To register and contribute, go to Community Portal.

Contents

To visit the website, click (below) the corresponding categories or use the search command (on the left):

• SUBJECTS
  • People / Places / Topics / Events

• TEXTS
  • Christian Bible / Hebrew Bible / OT Apocrypha / OT Pseudepigrapha / Septuagint / Dead Sea Scrolls / New Testament / NT Apocrypha / Apostolic Fathers

• WORKS
  • Scholarship / Fiction / Languages / Works' chronology

• RESEARCH TOOLS
  • Book series / Journals / Learned societies / Publishers / Websites

• SCHOLARS
  • National Schools / People's generations / Women's Scholarship

• AUTHORS
  • National Schools / People's generations / Women's Fiction

News

• Israeli archaeologist and co-director of the Enoch Seminar Hanan Eshel (1958-2010) passed away on April 8, 2010.
• American historian Ellis Rivkin (1918-2010) passed away on April 7, 2010, and American-Israeli scholar Moshe Greenberg (1928-2010) on May 15, 2010.

[[Note: 4 Enoch is a work in progress. In the first phase (Aug 2009 - Jul 2010) thousands of entries (abstracts of works of scholarship and fiction, biographies of scholars and authors, etc.) have been included. Consequently, the Encyclopedia appears today essentially as a wikified bibliography, providing a comprehensive survey of the history of research in the period.

The keywords associated to each bibliographical and biographical entry have generated numerous "Subject entries" or "Categories" (now existing in a draft form), which in the second phase of the project (Aug 2010 - Aug 2014) will be assigned to specialists and developed as original contributions to the study of Second Temple Judaism]]