The Early Enoch Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels

by Stuckenbruck, Loren T.; Boccaccini, Gabriele; Charlesworth, James H.; Hoffmann, Matthias; Charlesworth, James H.

• ISBN13: 9780567668981
• ISBN10: 0567668983
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-03-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

In this volume leading lights from the world of Enochic studies examines the ways in which the early Enoch tradition intersects with the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke).
The book begins with a contribution from James H. Charlesworth, which offers reflections on the Enoch tradition more broadly as a springboard for specific studies based upon the gospels. Contributions then follow which assess the presence of common themes and motifs in the synoptic gospels and in the Parables of Enoch. These include eschatological language, the presence of angels, anti-Imperial imagery, and references to sexual abstinence. The highly distinguished contributors include; James H. Charlesworth, Loren Stuckenbruck, Gabriella Gelardini and Rivka Nir.

Author Biography

Loren Stuckenbruck is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, and Director of the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

Gabriele Boccaccini is the founder and Director of the Enoch Seminar and Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Rabbinic Literature at the University of Michigan, USA.

Matthias Hoffman is a scholar specialising in the Enochic tradition.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Reflections on the Enoch Tradition and the Gospels – James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
2. Angels in Eschatological Settings: From Zechariah to Matthew via 1 Enoch? – Oliver Dyma, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen, Germany
3. The Trajectory of the Son of Man in the Synoptic Gospels in Light of Second Temple Jewish Traditions – J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan, USA
4. The Parables of Enoch and the Gospel of Mark: Siblings, Colleagues, or Distant Cousins? – Vered Hillel, independent scholar
5. The End of History: Common Concepts in 1 Enoch and Mark – Gabriella Gelardini, University of Basel, Switzerland
6. From the Dead of Giants to the Impure Spirits in Mark's Gospel: Some Remarks – Giovanni Ibba, Central Italy Theological Seminary, Italy
7. Luke's Eschatology and Genealogy in Light of Enochic Tradition – Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
8. Woe to You Who Are Rich: Reshaping the Identity of God's People in Enochic and Lukan Theologies – Eric Noffke, Valdensian Faculty of Theology, Italy
9. The Satanic Empire: Reading Anti-Imperial Imagery in Luke 8:26-39 – Chad Pierce, University of Durham, UK
10. Sexual Desire in the Book of Watchers and the New Testament Exhortation to Sexual Abstinence – Rivka Nir, Open University of Israel, Israel
11. Magical-pharmacological Aspects in Early Jewish Writings and the New Testament – Matthias Hoffmann, independent scholar
12. The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars – Phenomena in Context: The Book of Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels - Michael Becker, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
13. Wading through Molten Metal: Ordeal in Enochic, Synoptic, and Zoroastrian Traditions – Vicente Dobroruka, University of Brasilia, Brazil
14. 4QApocryphan Daniel ar (4Q246) and Luke 1:32-35: Some Observations – Årstein Justnes, University of Agder, Norway
15. Postscript – Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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