Rediscovering Enoch? the Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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The books of Enoch are famed for having been "lost" in the Middle Ages but "rediscovered" by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians.…mehr

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The books of Enoch are famed for having been "lost" in the Middle Ages but "rediscovered" by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians.
Autorenporträt
Ariel Hessayon, Ph.D. (1996), Cambridge University, is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. His publications include "Gold Tried in the Fire" The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution (2007). Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ph.D. (2002), Princeton University, is Professor of the New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent books are Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (2018) and Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D. (1991), University of Turin, is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Michigan. He is the founding director of the Enoch Seminar. His most recent book is Paul's Three Paths to Salvation (2020).