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

• The 6th Enoch Seminar will be held in Milan, Italy (June 26-30, 2011) on 2 Baruch / 4 Ezra. Participation is by invitation only. See the Enoch Seminar page for further details.

• The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary is now available. It is a landmark in the history of research in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins.

4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins is an academic project of the Enoch Seminar, created in 2009 by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA), in collaboration with the late Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Loren T. Stuckenbruck (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA), and Carlos A. Segovia (Camilo José Cela University, Spain). The current Board of Directors of the Enoch Seminar includes: Gabriele Boccaccini (chair), Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Matthias Henze, and Loren T. Stuckenbruck.

Born as a bibliography in the early 1990s and developed as a database in the 2000s, 4 Enoch has been made freely accessible online in wiki-format since August 2009. It now includes more than 1,000 encyclopedic entries, 6,000 abstracts of scholarly and fictional works, 2,500 biographies of scholars and authors, from the 15th century to the present...

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

Goals

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 10,000 pages, "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 mid-15th 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.

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

(1) Dictionary

(a) SUBJECTS (900+)

• People / Places / Topics / Events / History of research / In the Arts

(b) ANCIENT TEXTS (50+)

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

(2) Abstracts

(a) SCHOLARLY WORKS (4,000+)

• Books / Edited volumes
• Languages / Works' chronology

• Ancient Judaism / Second Temple Judaism / Rabbinic origins / Jewish History
• Historical Jesus / Time of Jesus / Christian origins / Early Christianity / Christianity

(b) FICTIONAL WORKS (2,400+)

See Languages, and Works' chronology

• Art / Cinema / Films / Literature / Novels / Poetry / Music / Operas / Oratorios / Theatre / Plays

(c) RESEARCH TOOLS (100+)

• Book series / Journals / Learned societies / Publishers / Websites / Databases

(d) VARIA

• Translations / Non-Fiction
• Arch-fi / Visions

(3) Biographies

(a) SCHOLARS (1,300+)

• Second Temple Scholars / OT Scholars / Qumran Scholars / Philo Scholars / Josephus Scholars / NT Scholars / Historical Jesus Scholars / Pauline Scholars / Archaeologists

• National Schools / People's generations / Women Scholars

(b) AUTHORS (1,400+)

• Artists / Composers / Film Directors / Novelists / Playwrights / Translators
• National Schools / People's generations / Women Authors

(c) OTHERS

• Translators / Writers
• Visionaries / Arch-fi Authors
• National Schools / People's generations / Women Authors

News

• April 4, 2011 (New York University) - Conference: Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge - Organizers: Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa and ISAW) and Seth Sanders (Trinity College and ISAW)

• February 19, 2011 - Israeli Archaeologist Anson F. Rainey (born 11 January 1930) passed away 19 February 2011. A biography and bibliography of his many works is available here- http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/directory/dir_anson_rainey.html . May his memory be a blessing.

• February 13, 2011 - American Professor, and friend of the Enoch Seminar, Alan F. Segal (1945-2011) passed away on Feb 13. His premature death is very sad news for all those who had the privilege of knowing him, and a great loss for the entire community of specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. Our thoughts are with his family. May his memory be a blessing.

• January 13, 2011 - German scholar Rudolf Pesch (1936-2011) passed away. Prof. Pesch's research focused on the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of Apostles.

• Dec 15, 2010 - With great sorrow we announce that Israeli Professor, and member of the Enoch Seminar, Shemaryahu Talmon (1920-2010) passed away on Dec 15. Prof. Talmon was the chief editor of the Hebrew University Bible Project for many years. May his memory be a blessing.

• New entries. Psalms of Solomon and Salome Alexandra, by Kenneth Atkinson. / Apocalypse of Abraham, by Gerbern S. Oegema. / 2 Enoch, by Andrei A. Orlov / John and Wedding at Cana, by James E. West / Tigranes the Great, by Gabriele Boccaccini / Herod the Great, by Samuele Rocca

• Obituaries. German NT scholar Rudolf Pesch (1936-2011); Biblical scholar and translator John S. Bowden (1935 - 2010); Israeli Archaeologist Ehud Netzer (1934-2010); Italian Biblical scholar Jan Alberto Soggin (1926-2010).

• December 6, 2010 - Biblical scholar and translator John Bowden (1935 - 2010) passed away. He was an accomplished scholar in his own right but is probably better known as a translator of many books in the field of Biblical studies.

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

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

• May 15, 2010 - American-Israeli scholar Moshe Greenberg (1928-2010) passed away.

• Apr 8, 2010 - Israeli archaeologist and co-director of the Enoch Seminar Hanan Eshel (1958-2010) passed away.

• Apr 7, 2010 - American historian Ellis Rivkin (1918-2010) passed away

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 with 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) are in the process of being assigned to specialists and developed as original contributions to the study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins]]