The Aramaic Books of Enoch and related literature from Qumran: proceedings of the international online conference, organized by the Center for the Study of Second Temple Judaism of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, in cooperation with Enoch Seminar, 20-22 October 2020
The volume examines the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch and the Book of Giants, focusing on their grammar, meaning, and connection to the Mesopotamian astronomical tradition. It also explores the apocalyptic traditions about fallen angels and humanity.
| Summary: | The volume examines the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch and the Book of Giants, focusing on their grammar, meaning, and connection to the Mesopotamian astronomical tradition. It also explores the apocalyptic traditions about fallen angels and humanity. Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Philology and Linguistics -- Chapter 1 From Clustering to Interpretation: Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran -- Chapter 2 Orthographic and Grammatical Variation in the Qumran Enochic Corpus -- Chapter 3 The Language of Aramaic Enoch Revisited -- Part 2 Astronomical Book (4Q208-4Q211 and 1 Enoch 72-82) -- Chapter 4 The Work of the Sky and the Earth and Its Creator: 1 Enoch 2:1-5:2 and the Astronomical Book -- Chapter 5 Scientific Diction in the Aramaic Enoch Fragments -- Chapter 6 Babylonian Astronomy and Enoch: Some Comments from the Perspective of the History of Babylonian Astronomy -- Part 3 Book of the Watchers -- Chapter 7 Editions, Recensions and Literary Creativity: The Evidence from Aramaic Enoch -- Chapter 8 On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels -- Chapter 9 Behind the Names ʿYryn, Gbryn, Nplyn: Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition of the Watchers -- Chapter 10 But What about the People? -- Part 4 Related Literature -- Chapter 11 Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity -- Chapter 12 Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon -- Chapter 13 AMRAM: Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources. "This volume contains studies that explore the content and meaning of the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch, the Book of Giants, and related literature. The essays shed new light on the lexicon, orthography and grammar of the Aramaic scrolls, as well as their relationship to schematic astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia. Contributors examine the origin of the angelic tradition of the Watchers, the textual and literary relationship of the Aramaic scrolls to the Book of the Watchers, and the culpability of humanity in the spread of evil on earth according to the myth of the fallen angels"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 317 Seiten), Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-69671-6 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004696716 |