Gabriele Boccaccini (b.1958), Italian-American scholar
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Gabriele Boccaccini is an Italian-born American scholar, at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI), USA.
E-mail address: 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 (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 (1991 Boccaccini), book
- Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts (1992 Boccaccini), book
- [[Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (1998 Boccaccini), book
- Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), book
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 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
External links
E-mail address: gbocca@umich.edu