Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature

Annette Yoshiko Reed

Cambridge University Press, 2005-11-28 - 318 pages

 

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the 'sons of God' of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In the process, it explores issues such as the role of text-selection in the delineation of community boundaries and the development of early Jewish and Christian ideas about the origins of evil on the earth.

 

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The Early Enoch Literature

Gabriele Boccaccini, John Joseph Collins

BRILL, 2007 - 367 pages

In recent years there has been a lively debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in Judaism. This volume is intended to represent that debate, by juxtaposing pairs of articles on several key issues: the textual evidence, the relationship to the Torah, the calendar, the relation to wisdom, the relation to the temple, the sociological setting and the relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is not the intention of the editors to impose a consensus, but rather to stimulate discussion by bringing together divergent viewpoints. The book should be a useful textbook not only on the Enoch literature and apocalypticism, but more generally on Second Temple Judaism.

 

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Son of Man in the Parables of Enoch and in Matthew

 

Leslie W. Walck

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010-07-31 - 216 pages

An examination of all the relevant passages containing the term "Son of Man" in both Matthew and the Parables of Enoch.

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The Book of Enoch Or I Enoch: A New English Edition with Commentary and Textual Notes

 

Matthew Black, Otto Neugebauer

BRILL, 1985 - 467 pages

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The "Astronomical" Chapters of the Ethiopic book of Enoch (72 to 82)

Matthew Black

Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 1981 - 42 pages

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The Book of Enoch, or, I Enoch: A New English Edition : With Commentary and Textual Notes

 

Matthew Black, Otto Neugebauer

BRILL, 1985 - 467 pages

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The Books of Enoch: Aramaic fragments of Qumran Cave 4

Matthew Black

Clarendon Press, 1976 - 439 pages

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The Ethiopic Book of Enoch: A New Edition in the Light of Aramaic Dead Sea Fragments

Michael Anthony Knibb

Clarendon Press, 1978

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1 Enoch 91-108

Loren T. Stückenbruck

Walter de Gruyter, 2007 - 855 pages

The volume is a commentary on 1 Enoch chapters 91-108 that begins with the Ethiopic text tradition but also takes the Greek and Aramaic (Dead Sea Scrolls) evidence into account. This section of 1 Enoch, which contains material from at least five different documents composed some time during the 2nd century BCE, provides a window into the early stages of the reception of the earliest Enoch tradition, as it was being negotiated in relation to elitist religious opponents, on the one hand, and in relation to other Jewish traditions that were flourishing at the time. The commentary, at the beginning of which there is an extensive introduction, is structured in the following way: there is a translation for each unit of text (including the Greek and Aramaic where it exists, with the Greek and Ethiopic translations presented synoptically), followed by detailed textual notes that justify the translation and provide information on a full range of variations among the manuscripts. This, in turn, is followed by a General Comment on the unit of text; after this there are detailed notes on each subdivision of the text which attempt to situate the content within the stream of biblical interpretation and developing Jewish traditions of the Second Temple period. The five documents in 1 Enoch 91-108 are dealt with in the following order: (1) Apocalypse of Weeks (93:1-10; 91:11-17); (2) Admonition (91:1-10, 18-19); (3) Epistle of Enoch (92:1-5; 93:11-105:2; (4) Birth of Noah (106-107); and (5) the Eschatological Appendix (108).

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Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions

 

Michael Anthony Knibb

BRILL, 2009 - 448 pages

Twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions have been included in this collection, which illustrates some of the dominant concerns of his work throughout his career.

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Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

 

Grant Macaskill

BRILL, 2007 - 294 pages

 

This book examines four texts: 1 Enoch, 4QInstruction, Matthew and 2 Enoch. A common idea in these texts, which blend sapiential and apocalyptic elements, is that the revealing of wisdom to an elect group inaugurates the eschatological period. The emphasis on "revealed wisdom" is essentially apocalyptic, but facilitates the uptake of motifs, forms and language from the sapiential tradition and is important in explaining the fusion of the two traditions. In addition, revealed wisdom often has creational associations and this has significance for the notion of ethics in these texts. The book will interest anyone concerned with the development of Jewish and Christian eschatology and ethics. It also challenges the simplistic redactional assumptions of certain New Testament scholars.

 

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The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

 

Józef Tadeusz Milik

Clarendon Press, 1976 - 439 pages

 

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The Enoch-Metatron Tradition

 

Andrei A. Orlov

Mohr Siebeck, 2005 - 383 pages

 

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The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios

 

JAMES A. WADDELL

Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2011-11-10 - 208 pages

This volume presents a comparative study of the Messiah in the Pauline letters with the Enochic Son of Man traditions in the Parables of Enoch.

 

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Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

 

Gabriele Boccaccini, Giovanni Ibba

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009-06-02 - 474 pages

The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document.

 

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