Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Author:   Ariel Hessayon ,  Annette Yoshiko Reed ,  Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   27
ISBN:  

9789004529793


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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The books of Enoch are famed for having been “lost” in the Middle Ages but “rediscovered” by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians.

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Author:   Ariel Hessayon ,  Annette Yoshiko Reed ,  Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   27
Weight:   0.897kg
ISBN:  

9789004529793


ISBN 10:   9004529799
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ariel Hessayon and Gabriele Boccaccini Part 1: European Traditions and Trajectories before James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact 1 Enoch Lost and Found?  Rethinking Enochic Reception in the Middle Ages  Annette Yoshiko Reed 2 The Book of Enoch in Relation to the Premodern Christian Doctrines of Spiritual Beings  Euan Cameron 3 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Enoch, and Hermetism  Giulio Busi 4 Earliest Commentaries on 1 Enoch before Laurence  Pompeo Sarnelli (1710) and Daniele Manin (1820)  Gabriele Boccaccini 5 Enoch and the Genesis of Freemasonry  Tobias Churton 6 Blake’s Enoch before the Book of Enoch  Francis Borchardt 7 Enoch in the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism)  Jared W. Ludlow Part 2: Revisiting James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact 8 James Bruce’s Illusory “Book of Enoch the Prophet”  Ted M. Erho 9 James Bruce and His Copies of Ethiopic Enoch  Ariel Hessayon 10 A “Rich and Unparalleled Collection”  The Afterlives of James Bruce’s Manuscripts and Drawings  Ariel Hessayon 11 When Enoch Left Ethiopia  On Race and Philological (Im)possibilities in the Nineteenth Century  Elena Dugan Part 3: Enoch beyond Europe 12 The Reception and Function of 1 Enoch in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition  Ralph Lee 13 The Archangel Uriel in 1 Enoch and Other Ethiopian Texts  Daniel Assefa 14 Scales of Creation or Scales of Judgment?  Variant Readings for Parables of Enoch 41 and 43  Robert G. Hall 15 Heavenly Exiles and Earthly Outcasts  Enochic Concepts of Hermetic Knowledge and Proscribed Lore in Parabiblica Slavica (Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)  Florentina Badalanova Geller 16 Enoch as Idrīs in Early Modern Ottoman Sufi Writings  Two Case Studies  Kameliya Atanasova 17 Why Enoch Did Not Die  The Soul Construction of Enoch in the Zohar and Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah  Shaul Magid Appendix: The Earliest English Translations and Synopses of Ethiopic Enoch (1770–1820)  Ariel Hessayon

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"Ariel Hessayon, Ph.D. (1996), Cambridge University, is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. His publications include ""Gold Tried in the Fire"": The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution (2007). Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ph.D. (2002), Princeton University, is Professor of the New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent books are Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (2018) and Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D. (1991), University of Turin, is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Michigan. He is the founding director of the Enoch Seminar. His most recent book is Paul's Three Paths to Salvation (2020)."

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