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

• Superior document: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Drawnel, Henryk,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 216.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Henryk Drawnel -- Part 1 Philology and Linguistics -- Chapter 1 From Clustering to Interpretation: Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran / Mathias Coeckelbergs -- Chapter 2 Orthographic and Grammatical Variation in the Qumran Enochic Corpus / Edward Cook -- Chapter 3 The Language of Aramaic Enoch Revisited / Steven E. Fassberg -- 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 / Henryk Drawnel -- Chapter 5 Scientific Diction in the Aramaic Enoch Fragments / Holger Gzella -- Chapter 6 Babylonian Astronomy and Enoch: Some Comments from the Perspective of the History of Babylonian Astronomy / John Steele -- Part 3 Book of the Watchers -- Chapter 7 Editions, Recensions and Literary Creativity: The Evidence from Aramaic Enoch / Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- Chapter 8 On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels / Shlomi Efrati -- Chapter 9 Behind the Names ʿYryn, Gbryn, Nplyn : Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition of the Watchers / Ida Fröhlich -- Chapter 10 But What about the People? / James C. VanderKam -- Part 4 Related Literature -- Chapter 11 Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity / Matthew Goff -- Chapter 12 Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon / Jaap Doedens -- Chapter 13 AMRAM : Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram / Melissa Sayyad Bach , Kasper Siegismund , and Jesper Høgenhaven -- Back Matter -- Index of Modern Authors.