Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees
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Overview
The early Enoch literature doesn’t 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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Key Features
- Addresses various questions discussed at the fourth Enoch Seminar
- Offers lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists
Contents
- Part One: Jubilees and its Literary Context
- The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees
- The Composition of Jubilees
- The Relationship between Jubilees and Early Enochic Books (Astronomical Book and Book of the Watchers)
- The Chronologies of the Apocalypse of Weeks and the Book of Jubilees
- The Aramaic Levi Document, the Genesis Apocryphon, and Jubilees: A Study of Shared Traditions
- The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scroll
- Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition
- The Heavenly Counterpart of Moses in the Book of Jubilees
- Jubiless and the Samaritan Tradition
- Part Two: The Melting of Mosaic and Enochic Traditions
- Enochic Judaism—a Judaism without the Torah and the Temple?
- The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees
- From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakah
- Abram’s Prayer: The Coherence of Pericopes in Jubilees 1236–27
- Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity
- Part Three: Jubilees between Enoch and Qumran
- 4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubiless at Qumran
- Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees
- Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees
- The Book of Jubilees and the Origin of Evil
- The Festival of Pesah and Massot in the Book of Jubilees
- Eschatological Impulses in the Jubilees
- Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees
- Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in the Jubilees: The Evidence of Angelology and Demonology
- Worship in Jubiless and Enoch
- The Book of Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism
- Part Four: Where Does Jubilees Belong
- Jubilees the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood
- Jubilees and the Enochic Judaism
- Jubilees, Qumran, and the Essenes
- The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, 1850–Present
Contributors
- Veronika Bachmann
- Kelley Coblentz Bautch
- Jonathan Ben-Dov
- John S. Bergsma
- Gabriele Boccaccini.
- Lutz Doering
- John C. Endres
- Esther Eshel
- Williamá K. Gilders
- Lester L. Grabbe
- Betsy Halpern-Amaru
- Matthias Henze
- Martha Himmelfarb
- David R. Jackson
- Helge S. Kvanvig
- Erik Larson
- Hindy Najman
- Isaac W. Oliver
- Andrei A. Orlov
- Annette Yoshiko Reed
- Eyal Regev
- Lawrence H. Schiffman
- James M. Scott
- Michael Segal
- Aharon Shemesh
- Loren T. Stuckenbruck
- David W. Suter
- James C. VanderKam
- Jacques van Ruiten
- Benjamin G. Wright III
Product Details
- Title: Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees
- Editors: Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 496
About the Editors
Gabriele Boccaccini is professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Michigan and director of the Enoch Seminar, a biennial international conference on the Enoch literature.
Giovanni Ibba is adjunct professor of biblical Hebrew at Central Italy Theological Seminary in Florence and adjunct professor of history of religions at the University of Siena, Italy.
