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

• 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, by James E. West

• Obituaries. Israeli Archaeologist Ehud Netzer (1934-2010), and Italian Biblical scholar Jan Alberto Soggin (1926-2010).

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). 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.

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 9,000 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 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.

Contents

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

• SUBJECTS (500+)
  • People / Places / Topics / Events

• ANCIENT TEXTS (50+)
  • Christian Bible / Hebrew Bible / OT Apocrypha / OT Pseudepigrapha / Septuagint / Dead Sea Scrolls / New Testament / NT Apocrypha / Apostolic Fathers

• SCHOLARLY WORKS (3,000+)
  • Books / Edited volumes
  • Languages / Works' chronology

• FICTIONAL WORKS (2,000+)
  • Art / Films / Novels / Operas / Oratorios / Plays / Poetry
  • Languages / Works' chronology

• RESEARCH TOOLS (100+)
  • Book series / Journals / Learned societies / Publishers / Websites / Databases

• SCHOLARS (1,250+)
  • National Schools / People's generations / Women Scholars

• AUTHORS (1,300+)
  • National Schools / People's generations / Women Authors

News

• 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.

• 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

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