New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only
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New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only presents a collection of papers from the fifth conference of the Enoch Seminar. The conference re-examines 2 Enoch, an early Jewish apocalyptic text previously known to scholars only in its Slavonic translation, in light of recently identified Coptic fragments. This approach helps to advance the understanding of many key issues of this enigmatic and less explored Enochic text. One of the important methodological lessons of the current volume lies in the recognition that the Adamic and Melchizedek traditions, the mediatorial currents which play an important role in the apocalypse, are central for understanding the symbolic universe of the text. The volume also contains the recently identified Coptic fragments of 2 Enoch, introduced to scholars for the first time during the conference.
ISBN
9789004230132
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
Brill
Disciplines
Religion
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Table of Contents
Preliminary Material
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Introduction
By: Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini
No Longer “Slavonic” Only: 2 Enoch Attested in Coptic from Nubia
By: Joost L. Hagen
The “Book of the Secrets of Enoch” (2 En): Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview
By: Christfried Böttrich
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
By: Grant Macaskill
The Sacerdotal Traditions of 2 Enoch and the Date of the Text
By: Andrei A. Orlov
Excavating 2 Enoch: The Question of Dating and the Sacerdotal Traditions
By: David W. Suter
2 Enoch and the New Perspective on Apocalyptic
By: Crispin H. T. Fletcher-Louis
The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 Enoch
By: Andrei A. Orlov
Patriarch, Prophet, Author, Angelic Rival: Exploring the Relationship of 1 Enoch to 2 Enoch in Light of the Figure of Enoch
By: Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Daniel Assefa
Calendrical Elements in 2 Enoch
By: Basil Lourié
2 Enoch and Halakhah
By: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Halakha, Calendars, and the Provenances of 2 Enoch
By: Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
Adam As a Mediatorial Figure in Second Temple Jewish Literature
By: John R. Levison
“Better Watch Your Back, Adam”: Another Adam and Eve Tradition in Second Temple Judaism
By: Lester L. Grabbe
Adamic Traditions in 2 Enoch and in the Books of Adam and Eve
By: Johannes Magliano-Tromp
Adamic Traditions in Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature
By: Alexander Toepel
Adamic Tradition in Slavonic Manuscripts (Vita Adae et Evae and Apocryphal Cycle about the Holy Tree)
By: Anissava Miltenova
Melchizedek Traditions in Second Temple Judaism
By: Eric F. Mason
Melchizedek at Qumran and in Judaism: A Response
By: Devorah Dimant
Enoch and Melchizedek: The Concern for Supra-Human Priestly Mediators in 2 Enoch
By: Charles A. Gieschen
Melchizedek in Some Early Christian Texts and 2 Enoch
By: Harold W. Attridge
“Much to Say and Hard to Explain” Melchizedek in Early Christian Literature, Theology, and Controversy
By: Pierluigi Piovanelli
On Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, and Eve
By: Daphna Arbel
Bibliography on 2 Enoch
By: Andrei A. Orlov
Index of Modern Authors