Brill The Early Enoch Literature: 121 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 121)

This book provides an overview of the current debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in ancient Judaism, especially in relation to the Torah of Moses and to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Review "This a valuable collection on some of the key issues that remain the focus of the Enoch Seminar but also of scholarship in general concerned to understand intellectual movements within Second Temple Judaism and, more especially, the documents that survive." - William R. G. Loader - Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia About the Author Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D. Turin (1991) is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal Henoch, director of the Enoch Seminar and editor of its Proceedings.Among his publications are Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism (Eerdmans, 1998), Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel (Eerdmans, 2001). John J. Collins, Ph.D. Harvard (1972) is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School. He has published extensively on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Second Temple Judaism. His more recent books include Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2004), Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture (Brill, 2005), Encounters with Biblical Theology (Fortress, 2005), and The Bible after Babel. Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Eerdmans, 2005).