Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and TraditionsThis volume brings together twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions, which were originally published in a wide range of journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings and thematic collections. A number of the essays are concerned with the issues raised by the complex textual history and literary genesis of 1 Enoch, but the majority are concerned with the interpretation of specific texts or with themes such as messianism. The essays illustrate some of the dominant concerns of Michael Knibb's work, particularly the importance of the idea of exile; the way in which older texts regarded as authoritative were reinterpreted in later writings; and the connections between the apocalyptic writings and the sapiential literature. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART ONE ESSAYS ON THE BOOK OF ENOCH | 15 |
I The Ethiopic Book of Enoch in Recent Research | 17 |
II The Book of Enoch or Books of Enoch? The Textual Evidence for 1 Enoch | 36 |
The Case of 1 Enoch | 56 |
Refl ections on a Recently Published Commentary | 77 |
V The Book of Enoch in the Light of the Qumran Wisdom Literature | 91 |
VI The Use of Scripture in 1 Enoch 1719 | 111 |
XI The Exile in the Literature of the Intertestamental Period | 191 |
XII Exile in the Damascus Document | 213 |
XIII Jubilees and the Origins of the Qumran Community | 232 |
The Levi Traditions | 255 |
XV Apocalyptic and Wisdom in 4 Ezra | 271 |
XVI Isaianic Traditions in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | 289 |
XVII Messianism in the Pseudepigrapha in the Light of the Scrolls | 307 |
XVIII Eschatology and Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls | 327 |
VII The Structure and Composition of the Parables of Enoch | 124 |
A Critical Review | 143 |
1 Some Methodological Issues | 161 |
X The TextCritical Value of the Quotations from 1 Enoch in Ethiopic Writings | 176 |
PART TWO ESSAYS ON EARLY JEWISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS | 189 |
Problems and Issues | 349 |
XX Temple and Cult in Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Writings from before the Common Era | 367 |
Future Perspectives | 388 |
Bibliography of Publications by Michael A Knibb | 407 |
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