Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection is a volume edited by Gabriele Boccaccini.
Editions and translations
Published in the United States (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005).
Abstract
Proceedings of the Second Enoch Seminar (Venice 2003).
Reviews
- Thomas J. Kraus, RBL 2006
Table of contents
- Gabriele Boccaccini, Introduction: From the Enoch Literature to Enochic Judaism
- Part One - Dream Visions and Daniel
- Matthias Henze, Enoch's Dream Visions and the Visions of Daniel Reexamined
- Patrick Tiller, The Sociological Context of the Dream Visions of Daniel and 1 Enoch
- Armin Lange, Dream Visions and Apocalyptic Milieus
- James R. Davila, The Animal Apocalypse and Daniel
- Gabriele Boccaccini, The Covenantal Theology of the Apocalyptic Book of Daniel
- Florentino Garcia Martinez, Comparing the Groups Behind Dream Visions and Daniel: A Brief Note
- Matthias Albani, The "One Like a Son of Man" (Dan 7:13) and the Royal Ideology
- Stefan Beyerle, "One Like a Son of Man": Innuendoes of a Heavenly Individual
- John J. Collins, Response: The Apocalyptic Worldview of Daniel
- Part Two: Enoch and Jubilees
- Helge S. Kvanvig, Jubilees-Read as a Narrative
- Erik W. Larson, The LXX and Enoch: Influence and Interpretation in Early Jewish Literature
- Jacques van Ruiten, A Literary Dependency of Jubilees on i Enoch?
- Annette Yoshiko Reed, "Revealed Literature" in the Second Century B.C.E.: Jubilees, 1 Enoch, Qumran, and the Prehistory of the Biblical Canon
- Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Jubilees and 1 Enoch and the Issue of Transmission of Knowledge
- Hanan Eshel, 4Q390, the 490-Year Prophecy, and the Calendrical History of the Second Temple Period
- Henry W. Morisada Rietz, Synchronizing Worship: Jubilees as a Tradition for the Qumran Community
- Michael A. Daise, "The Days of Sukkot of the Month of Kislev": The Festival of Dedication and the Delay of Feasts in 'QS 1:13-15
- Martha Himmelfarb, Jubilees and Sectarianism
- Jeff S. Anderson, Denouncement Speech in Jubilees and Other Enochic Literature
- Liliana Rosso Ubigli, The Historical-Cultural Background of the Book of Jubilees
- Ida Fröhlich, Enoch and Jubile
- Ithamar Gruenwald, Apocalypticism and the Religion and Ritual of the "Pre-Sinaitic" Narratives
- Lawrence H. Schiffman, 3 Enoch and the Enoch Tradition
- James C. VanderKam, Response: Jubilees and Enoch
- Part Three: The Apocalypse of Weeks
- Klaus Koch, History as a Battlefield of Two Antagonistic Powers in the Apocalypse of Weeks and in the Rule of the Community
- Andreas Bedenbender, Reflection on Ideology and Date of the Apocalypse of Weeks
- Timothy H. Lim, The Enochic Circles, the Hasidim, and the Qumran Community
- Matthias Henze, The Apocalypse of Weeks and the Architecture of the End Time
- Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Plant Metaphor in Its Inner-Enochic and Early Jewish Context
- Michael A. Knibb, The Apocalypse of Weeks and the Epistle of Enoch
- Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Evaluating the Discussions concerning the Original Order of Chapters 91-93 and Codicological Data Pertaining to 4Q212 and Chester Beatty XII Enoch
- Peter W. Flint, The Greek Fragments of Enoch from Qumran Cave 7
- George W.E. Nickelsburg, Response: Context, Text, and Social Setting of the Apocalypse of Weeks
- Part Four: The Groningen Hypothesis Revisited
- Charlotte Hempel, The Groningen Hypothesis: Strengths and Weaknesses
- Albert I. Baumgarten, Reflections on the Groningen Hypothesis
- Mark A. Elliott, Sealing Some Cracks in the Groningen Foundation
- Torleif Elgvin, The Yahad Is More Than Qumran
- Lester L. Grabbe, Digging among the Roots of the Groningen Hypothesis
- Benjamin G. Wright, One "Methodological Assumption" of the Groningen Hypothesis of Qumran Origins
- Timothy H. Lim, The Translation of NDMW and Its Significance for the Groningen Hypothesis
- Shemaryahu Talmon, Comments concerning the "Qumran-Essenes" Hypothesis
- Emile Puech, The Essenes and Qumran, the Teacher and the Wicked Priest, the Origins
- Gabriele Boccaccini, Qumran: The Headquarters of the Essenes or a Marginal Splinter Group?
- Florentino Garcia Martinez, Response: The Groningen Hypothesis Revisited
- Part Five: The Enochic-Essene Hypothesis Revisited
- David W. Suter, Theodicy and the Problem of the "Intimate Enemy"
- Annette Yoshiko Reed, Interrogating "Enochic Judaism": 1 Enoch as Evidence for Intellectual History, Social Realities, and Literary Tradition
- John J. Collins, Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Essenes: Groups and Movements in Judaism in the Early Second Century B.C.E.
- Jeff S. Anderson, From "Communities of Texts" to Religious Communities: Problems and Pitfalls
- James R. Davila, Enochians, Essenes, and Qumran Essenes
- Corrado Martone, Beyond Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: Some Observations on the Qumran Zadokite Priesthood
- Pierluigi Piovanelli, Some Archaeological, Sociological, and Cross-Cultural Afterthoughts on the "Groningen" and the "Enochic-Essene" Hypotheses
- John C. Reeves, Complicating the Notion of an "Enochic Judaism"
- William Adler, Enoch, Moses, and the Essenes
- James C. VanderKam, Too Far Beyond the Essene Hypothesis?
- Benjamin G. Wright, Some Remarks on the Parting of the Ways
- Paolo Sacchi, History of the Earliest Enochic Texts
- Torleif Elgvin, Different Bibles for Different Groups?
- Claudio Gianotto, Essenes, Qumran, and Christian Origins
- Gabriele Boccaccini, Response: Texts, Intellectual Movements, and Social Groups
- James H. Charlesworth, Summary and Conclusions: The Books of Enoch or 1 Enoch Matters: New Paradigms for Understanding Pre-70 Judaism