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- Title: Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
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Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, edited by Gabriele Boccaccini. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. xviii + 454. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 0802828787. Is the mystery of both Essene and Qumran origins largely hidden in the Enoch literature (thus Boccaccini, 417)? Enoch and Qumran Origins deals with the relationship between Qumran literature and Second Temple Jewish texts relating to Enoch, in addition to a host of other related questions, and thus belongs to the current blossoming of scholarly interest in the Enoch tradition, which is also represented by, inter alia, the first volume of George Nickelsburg's commentary on 1 Enoch (1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1-36; 81-108 [ed. K. Baltzer; Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001]), two new translations of 1 Enoch (George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch: A New Translation [Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004]; Daniel C. Olson, Enoch: A New Translation [North Richland Hills, TX: BIBAL, 2004]), and monographs by David Jackson (Enochic Judaism: Three Defining Paradigm Exemplars [London: T&T Clark International, 2004]), Siam Bhayro (The Shemihazah and Asael Narrative of 1 Enoch 6-11: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary with Reference to Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Antecedents [AOAT 332; Munster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2005]), and Andrei Orlov (The Enoch-Metatron Tradition [TSAJ 107; Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005]) (for Jackson and Orlov, see preceding review). The volume under review here constitutes the proceedings of the second meeting of the Enoch seminar (Venice, July 1-4, 2003). Since the work of the Enoch seminar is surveyed by Boccaccini himself in his introduction (7-11), and by Thomas Kraus in his review in RBL (http://www.bookreviews.org), there is no reason to cover it again here. Furthermore, subjecting the minutiae of each of the positions presented in this volume to detailed scholarly critique would be a vast task, unnecessary in the context of a review and inappropriate given that many of the essays present short statements of a scholar's position rather than detailed arguments. This review will focus instead on identifying the main questions and issues with which the essays engage (for a different assessment, see the contribution by James H. Charlesworth, 444-54).