New perspectives on 2 Enoch

New perspectives on 2 Enoch no longer Slavonic only / [electronic resource] : edited by Andrei Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini ; associate editor, Jason Zurawski. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012. - 1 online resource. - Studia Judaeoslavica, v. 4 1876-6153 ; . - Studia Judaeoslavica ; v. 4. .

Collection of papers from the fifth conference of the Enoch Seminar in Naples, Italy (June 14-18, 2009)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One 2 Enoch; No Longer "Slavonic" Only: 2 Enoch Attested in Coptic from Nubia; Text and Dating of 2 Enoch; The "Book of the Secrets of Enoch" (2 En): Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview; The Provenance of 2 Enoch: A Philological Perspective. A Response to C. Böttrich's Paper "The 'Book of the Secrets of Enoch' (2 En): Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview"; 2 Enoch: Manuscripts, Recensions, and Original Language; The Sacerdotal Traditions of 2 Enoch and the Date of the Text Excavating 2 Enoch: The Question of Dating and the Sacerdotal TraditionsContent and Context of 2 Enoch; 2 Enoch and the New Perspective on Apocalyptic; The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 Enoch; Patriarch, Prophet, Author, Angelic Rival: Exploring the Relationship of 1 Enoch to 2 Enoch in Light of the Figure of Enoch; Calendrical Elements in 2 Enoch; 2 Enoch and Halakhah; Halakha, Calendars, and the Provenances of 2 Enoch; Part Two Adam, Enoch, and Melchizedek: Mediatorial Figures in Sesond Temple Judaism; Adamic Traditions Adam as a Mediatorial Figure in Second Temple Jewish Literature"Better Watch Your Back, Adam": Another Adam and Eve Tradition in Second Temple Judaism; Adamic Traditions in 2 Enoch and in the Books of Adam and Eve; Adamic Traditions in Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature; Adamic Tradition in Slavonic Manuscripts (Vita Adae et Evae and Apocryphal Cycle about the Holy Tree); Melchizedek Traditions; Melchizedek Traditions in Second Temple Judaism; Melchizedek at Qumran and in Judaism: A Response; Enoch and Melchizedek: The Concern for Supra-Human Priestly Mediators in 2 Enoch Melchizedek in Some Early Christian Texts and 2 Enoch"Much to Say and Hard to Explain" Melchizedek in Early Christian Literature, Theology, and Controversy; On Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, and Eve; Bibliography on 2 Enoch; Index of Modern Authors;

The conference re-examined 2 Enoch, an early Jewish apocalyptic text previously known to scholars only in its Slavonic translation, in light of recently identified Coptic fragments.

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Slavonic book of Enoch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Congresses.


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