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 (where he studied with 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.)

Articles in edited volumes

• Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Colloquium (1991 Collins/Charlesworth), edited volume
• "The Solar Calendars of Daniel and Enoch" - The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (2001 Collins/Flint), edited volume
• "Uomo, Angelo o Dio? Alle radici del messianismo ebraico e cristiano" - Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• "Inner-Jewish debate on the tension between divine and human agency in Second Temple Judaism" - Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment (2006 Barclay/Gathercole), edited volume
• "Finding a Place for the Parables of Enoch within Second Temple Jewish Literature" - Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume
• "Where does Ben Sira belong? The canon, literary genre, intellectual movement, and social group of a Zadokite document" - Studies in the Book of Ben Sira (2008 Xeravits), edited volume
• "Hellenistic Judaism: Myth or Reality?" - Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext (2008 Norich/Eliav), edited volume
• "What is a Judaism?: Perspectives from Second Temple Jewish Studies" - Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution (2009 Gitelman), edited volume
• "From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakah" - Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume

Articles in journals (selected)

• Middle Judaism and Its Contemporary Interpreters: Methodological Foundations for the Study of Judaisms, 300 BCE to 200 CE / Gabriele Boccaccini / Henoch 15 (1993) 207-34.
• The Pre-existence of the Torah: A Commonplace in Second Temple Judaism, or a Later Rabbinic Development? / Gabriele Boccaccini / Henoch 17 (1995) 329-350
• Gesù ebreo e cristiano: sviluppi e prospettive di ricerca sul Gesù storico in Italia, dall'Ottocento a oggi (with an Appendix on works available in translation) / Gabriele Boccaccini / Henoch 29.1 (2007) 105-154