Textual Evolution and Growth of the Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71588-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 219, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

The Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9 evolved and grew as it was translated into, and transmitted in, new and changing socio-linguistic and socio-religious contexts. This study explores how the Enochic theophany evolved in its Aramaic, Greek, Ethiopic and Latin versions, and focuses on the hermeneutical and text-critical implications of these features of textual evolution and growth. These features reveal how the text was read, interpreted, and re-signified as it was translated and transmitted. This study proposes a holistic methodology for exploring textual evolution and growth in fragmentary texts and in fragmentary textual traditions, and for understanding the Enochic theophany as a participant in an ongoing Theophanic and Enochic-Noahic discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCarron, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction: Textual Evolution and Growth of the Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1–9

1 The Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers

2 Reading the Seams in the Enochic Oracle and the Book of the Watchers

3 Scripture in the Enochic Theophany and Contemporary Scholarship

4 The Enochic Theophany, the Pseudepigrapha, and Textual Vitality

5 Traditionary Processes and the Evolution of the Enochic Theophany

6 The Methodology, Parameters and Scope of the Study

1 The Enochic Theophany in the Aramaic, Greek and Ethiopic Manuscripts and Fragments

1 4QEna (4Q201) and 4QEnc (4Q204)

2 Codex Panopolitanus, the Epistle of Jude 14b–15 and the Latin Quotations

3 The Eth. I and Eth. II Manuscripts of Ethiopic Enoch

2 The Aramaic Enochic Theophany in 4QEna (4Q201) and 4QEnc (4Q204)

1 The Reconstruction and Restoration of the Aramaic Fragments of the Enochic Theophany

2 The Enochic Superscription in 4QEna (BW 1:1)

3 The Enochic Preamble in 4QEna (BW 1:2–3a)

4 The Descent of God in 4QEna (BW 1:3b–4)

5 The Ends of the Earth in 4QEna (BW 1:5–6)

6 God’s Judgment in 4QEnc (BW 1:9)

7 Conclusion

3 The Greek Enochic Theophany in Codex Panopolitanus (GCP)

1 The Enochic Superscription in GCP (BW 1:1) and Deuteronomy 33:1

2 The Enochic Preamble in GCP (1:2–3a) and Balaam and Noah

3 The Descent of God in GCP (BW 1:3b–4) and the Hebrew Theophanies

4 The Watchers and the Hidden Things in GCP (BW 1:5)

5 The High Mountains, the High Hills, and Seismic Destruction in GCP (BW 1:6–7)

6 The Fate of the Righteous and the Chosen in GCP (BW 1:8)

7 The Language of the Enochic Theophany in GCP in Its Historical and Socio-Religious Context

8 Conclusion

4 The Enochic Theophany (BW 1:9) in Codex Panopolitanus, the Epistle of Jude 14b–15 and the Latin Versions

1 The Relationship between the Greek and Latin Text-Types and Versions

2 Parallels between GCP and Jude 14b–15

3 Conclusion

5 The Enochic Theophany in the Eth. I Manuscripts and the Greek Vorlage of the Ethiopic

1 The Translation of GEth into Ethiopic and the GCP Text-Type

2 Tana 9 and the Enochic Theophany in the Eth. I Manuscripts

3 The Language of the Earliest Recoverable Stratum of the Ethiopic Enochic Theophany

4 Conclusion

6 Textual Evolution and Growth in the Enochic Theophany in the Eth. I and Eth. II Manuscripts

1 Lexical Manipulation – the Splitting and Flooding of the Earth in Ethiopic Enoch 1:7a

2 Lexical Replacement – the Judgment of ‘All Flesh’ in Ethiopic Enoch 1:9d

3 Interpolations in the Enochic Theophany

4 Conclusion

Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1: BW 1:1–9 in Codex Panopolitanus Critical Text and Translation

Appendix 2: Ethiopic Enoch 1:1–9 (Eth.EIS) Critical Text and Translation

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Texts

Index of Modern Authors

Indexof Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander McCarron, D.Phil. (2022), University of Oxford, previously taught Classical Hebrew and Ethiopic (Ge’ez) at Oxford. His research focus is on the Enochic Book of the Watchers, and he recently published an article on 4Q201 in Dead Sea Discoveries.