Enoch and the Mosaic Torah

by Boccaccini, Gabriele

• ISBN13: 9780802864093
• ISBN10: 0802864090
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-02
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The early Enoch literature does not 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?

Author Biography

Gabriele Boccaccini is professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Michigan and director of the Enoch Seminar. 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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface: The Enigma of Jubilees and the Lesson of the Enoch Seminar	p. xiv
Jubilees and Its Literary Context
The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees	p. 3
The Composition of Jubilees	p. 22
The Relationship between Jubilees and the Early Enochic Books (Astronomical Book and Book of the Watchers)	p. 36
Daniel and Jubilees	p. 52
The Chronologies of the Apocalypse of Weeks and the Book of Jubilees	p. 67
The Aramaic Levi Document, the Genesis Apocryphon, and Jubilees: A Study of Shared Traditions	p. 82
The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scroll	p. 99
Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition	p. 116
The Heavenly Counterpart of Moses in the Book of Jubilees	p. 131
Jubilees and the Samaritan Tradition	p. 145
The Melting of Mosaic and Enochic Traditions
Enochic Judaism-a Judaism without the Torah and the Temple?	p. 163
The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees	p. 178
From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakah	p. 193
Abram's Prayer: The Coherence of the Pericopes in Jubilees 12:16-27	p. 211
Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity	p. 229
Jubilees Between Enoch and Qumran
4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran	p. 247
Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees	p. 261
Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees	p. 276
The Book of Jubilees and the Origin of Evil	p. 294
The Festivals of Pesah and Massot in the Book of Jubilees	p. 309
Eschatological Impulses in Jubilees	p. 323
Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees	p. 338
Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in Jubilees: The Evidence of Angelology and Demonology	p. 353
Worship in Jubilees and Enoch	p. 369
The Book of Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism	p. 384
Where Does Jubilees Belong?
Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood	p. 397
Jubilees and Enochic Judaism	p. 411
Jubilees, Qumran, and the Essenes	p. 426
The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, 1850-Present	p. 441
Index	p. 469
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