The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran

Proceedings of the International Online Conference Organized by the Center for the Study of Second Temple Judaism of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, in Cooperation with Enoch Seminar, 20-22 October 2020
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69670-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 216, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

This volume contains studies that explore the content and meaning of the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch, the Book of Giants, and related literature. The essays shed new light on the lexicon, orthography and grammar of the Aramaic scrolls, as well as their relationship to schematic astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia. Contributors examine the origin of the angelic tradition of the Watchers, the textual and literary relationship of the Aramaic scrolls to the Book of the Watchers, and the culpability of humanity in the spread of evil on earth according to the myth of the fallen angels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Drawnel, Henryk

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Józef Tadeusz Milik and the Aramaic Books of Enoch from Qumran

Henryk Drawnel

Part 1: Philology and Linguistics

1 From Clustering to Interpretation: Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran

Mathias Coeckelbergs

2 Orthographic and Grammatical Variation in the Qumran Enochic Corpus

Edward Cook

3 The Language of Aramaic Enoch Revisited

Steven E. Fassberg

Part 2: Astronomical Book (4Q208–4Q211 and 1 Enoch 72–82)

4 The Work of the Sky and the Earth and Its Creator: 1 Enoch 2:1–5:2 and the Astronomical Book

Henryk Drawnel

5 Scientific Diction in the Aramaic Enoch Fragments

Holger Gzella

6 Babylonian Astronomy and Enoch: Some Comments from the Perspective of the History of Babylonian Astronomy

John Steele

Part 3: Book of the Watchers

7 Editions, Recensions and Literary Creativity: The Evidence from Aramaic Enoch

Kelley Coblentz Bautch

8 On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels

Shlomi Efrati

9 Behind the Names 'Yryn, Gbryn, Nplyn: Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition of the Watchers

Ida Fröhlich

10 But What about the People?

James C. VanderKam

Part 4: Related Literature

11 Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity

Matthew Goff

12 Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon

Jaap Doedens

13 AMRAM: Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram

Melissa Sayyad Bach, Kasper Siegismund and Jesper Høgenhaven

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Henryk Drawnel, SSD (2004), Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, is Professor of Early Judaism at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has published on 1 Enoch and Aramaic Qumran manuscripts, including Qumran Cave 4: The Aramaic Books of Enoch. 4Q201, 4Q202, 4Q204, 4Q205, 4Q206, 4Q207, 4Q212 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).