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

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

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: Jewish Thought, 300 BCE to 200 CE (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991)
  • Il medio giudaismo. Per una storia del pensiero giudaico tra il III secolo a.e.v. e il II secolo e.v. <Italian> (Genoa 1993)
• Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts: A Multimedia Catalog from Flavius Josephus to 1991 (Turin: Zamorani, 1991)
• Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)
  • Oltre l'ipotesi essenica. Lo scisma tra Qumran e il giudaismo enochico <Italian> (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2003)
• Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002)
  • I giudaismi del Secondo Tempio. Da Ezechiele a Daniele <Italian> (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2008)

Edited volumes

• The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Turin: Zamorani, 2002)
• Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
• Il messia tra memoria e attesa <Italian> (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005)
• (with John J. Collins), The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
• Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
• (with Giovanni Ibba), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)

Websites

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