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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
Series: - Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 216
Volume Editor:
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.
Henryk Drawnel, SSD (2004), Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, is Professor of Early Judaism at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has published on 1 Enoch and Aramaic Qumran manuscripts, including
Qumran Cave 4: The Aramaic Books of Enoch. 4Q201, 4Q202, 4Q204, 4Q205, 4Q206, 4Q207, 4Q212 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Józef Tadeusz Milik and the Aramaic Books of Enoch from Qumran
Henryk Drawnel
1 From Clustering to Interpretation: Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran
Mathias Coeckelbergs
2 Orthographic and Grammatical Variation in the Qumran Enochic Corpus
Edward Cook
3 The Language of Aramaic Enoch Revisited
Steven E. Fassberg
4 The Work of the Sky and the Earth and Its Creator: 1 Enoch 2:1–5:2 and the Astronomical Book
Henryk Drawnel
5 Scientific Diction in the Aramaic Enoch Fragments
Holger Gzella
6 Babylonian Astronomy and Enoch: Some Comments from the Perspective of the History of Babylonian Astronomy
John Steele
7 Editions, Recensions and Literary Creativity: The Evidence from Aramaic Enoch
Kelley Coblentz Bautch
8 On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels
Shlomi Efrati
9 Behind the Names ʿYryn, Gbryn, Nplyn: Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition of the Watchers
Ida Fröhlich
10 But What about the People?
James C. VanderKam
11 Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity
Matthew Goff
12 Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon
Jaap Doedens
13 AMRAM: Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram
Melissa Sayyad Bach, Kasper Siegismund and Jesper Høgenhaven
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Józef Tadeusz Milik and the Aramaic Books of Enoch from Qumran
Henryk Drawnel
Part 1: Philology and Linguistics
1 From Clustering to Interpretation: Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran
Mathias Coeckelbergs
2 Orthographic and Grammatical Variation in the Qumran Enochic Corpus
Edward Cook
3 The Language of Aramaic Enoch Revisited
Steven E. Fassberg
Part 2: Astronomical Book (4Q208–4Q211 and 1 Enoch 72–82)
4 The Work of the Sky and the Earth and Its Creator: 1 Enoch 2:1–5:2 and the Astronomical Book
Henryk Drawnel
5 Scientific Diction in the Aramaic Enoch Fragments
Holger Gzella
6 Babylonian Astronomy and Enoch: Some Comments from the Perspective of the History of Babylonian Astronomy
John Steele
Part 3: Book of the Watchers
7 Editions, Recensions and Literary Creativity: The Evidence from Aramaic Enoch
Kelley Coblentz Bautch
8 On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels
Shlomi Efrati
9 Behind the Names ʿYryn, Gbryn, Nplyn: Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition of the Watchers
Ida Fröhlich
10 But What about the People?
James C. VanderKam
Part 4: Related Literature
11 Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity
Matthew Goff
12 Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon
Jaap Doedens
13 AMRAM: Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram
Melissa Sayyad Bach, Kasper Siegismund and Jesper Høgenhaven
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
Scholars, academic teachers, and students interested in Jewish apocalyptic literature of the Second Temple period, 1 Enoch, and Qumran Aramaic manuscripts.