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Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees
The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document.
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Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees
The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document.
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Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

Overview

The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802864093
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 06/02/2009
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Gabriele Boccaccini is professor of Second Temple Judaism and early rabbinic literature at the University of Michigan. He is also the founding director of the Enoch Seminar, a forum of international specialists in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam affiliated with the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2019, he was awarded knighthood by the president of Italy in recognition of his contributions to Italian culture in the world.


Giovanni Ibba is adjunct professor of Biblical Hebrew atCentral Italy Theological Seminary in Florence and adjunctprofessor of history of religions at the University ofSiena, Italy.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix

Preface: The Enigma of Jubilees and the Lesson of the Enoch Seminar Gabriele Boccaccini xiv

Part 1 Jubilees and Its Literary Context

The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees James C. VanderKam 3

The Composition of Jubilees Michael Segal 22

The Relationship between Jubilees and the Early Enochic Books (Astronomical Book and Book of the Watchers) John S. Bergsma 36

Daniel and Jubilees Matthias Henze 52

The Chronologies of the Apocalypse of Weeks and the Book of Jubilees James M. Scott 67

The Aramaic Levi Document, the Genesis Apocryphon, and Jubilees: A Study of Shared Traditions Esther Eshel 82

The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scroll Lawrence H. Schiffman 99

Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition Benjamin G. Wright III 116

The Heavenly Counterpart of Moses in the Book of Jubilees Andrei A. Orlov 131

Jubilees and the Samaritan Tradition Lester L. Grabbe 145

Part 2 The Melting of Mosaic and Enochic Traditions

Enochic Judaism-a Judaism without the Torah and the Temple? Helge S. Kvanvig 163

The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees William K. Gilders 178

From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakah Gabriele Boccaccini 193

Abram's Prayer: The Coherence of the Pericopes in Jubilees 12:16-27 Jacques van Ruiten 211

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity Hindy Najman 229

Part 3 Jubilees Between Enoch and Qumran

4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran Aharon Shemesh 247

Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees Lutz Doering 261

Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees Jonathan Ben-Dov276

The Book of Jubilees and the Origin of Evil Loren T. Stuckenbruck 294

The Festivals of Pesah and Massot in the Book of Jubilees Betsy Halpern-Amaru 309

Eschatological Impulses in Jubilees John C. Endres, S.J. 323

Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees Kelley Coblentz Bautch 338

Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in Jubilees: The Evidence of Angelology and Demonology Annette Yoshiko Reed 353

Worship in Jubilees and Enoch Erik Larson 369

The Book of Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism Martha Himmelfarb 384

Part 4 Where Does Jubilees Belong?

Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood David W. Suter 397

Jubilees and Enochic Judaism David R. Jackson 411

Jubilees, Qumran, and the Essenes Eyal Regev 426

The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, 1850-Present Veronika Bachmann Isaac W. Oliver 441

Index 469

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