Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I

Sources From Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20021242
AutoresJohn C Reeves (Professor, New York University), Annette Yoshiko Reed (0000-0002-5748-7812, Professor, New York University)
Año2018
Páginas432
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaEnoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198718413.001.0001
OpenAlexW2793295987
Open LibraryOL30585627M
ISBN9780198718413
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas101

This book provides scholars with a comprehensive collection of core references extracted from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literature to a plethora of ancient writings associated with the name of the biblical character Enoch (Gen 5:214). It assembles citations of and references to writings attributed to Enoch in non-canonical Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literary sources (ranging in age from roughly the third century bce up through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ce) into one convenient thematically arranged repository, and it classifies, compares, and briefly analyzes these references and citations to develop a clearer picture of the scope and range of what one might term “the Enochic library,” or the entire corpus of works attributed to Enoch and his subsequent cross-cultural avatars. The book consists of two parts. The present volume, Volume 1, is devoted to textual traditions about the narratological career of the character Enoch. It collects materials about the distinctive epithets frequently paired with his name, outlines his cultural achievements, articulates his societal roles, describes his interactions with the celestial world, assembles the varied traditions about his eventual fate, and surveys the various identities he is assigned outside the purely biblical world of discourse within other discursive networks and intellectual circles. It also assembles a range of testimonies which express how writings associated with Enoch were evaluated by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim writers during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Volume 2, currently in preparation, will concentrate upon textual sources which arguably display a knowledge of the peculiar contents, motifs, and themes of extant Enochic literature, including but not limited to 1 Enoch (the Ethiopic Book of Enoch) and 2 Enoch (the Slavonic Book of Enoch)

Archaeology · Art · Biblical studies · Character (mathematics) · Hebrew Bible · Judaism · Late Antiquity · Literature · Middle Ages · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc · Criticism, interpretation · Early works to 1800 · Ethiopic book of Enoch · Patriarchs (bible)