Enoch & Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection

The rediscovery of Enochic Judaism as an ancient movement of dissent within Second Temple Judaism, a movement centered on neither temple nor torah, is a major achievement of contemporary research. After being marginalized, ancient Enoch texts have reemerged as a significant component of the Dead Sea Scrolls library unearthed at Qumran.

Enoch and Qumran Origins is the first comprehensive treatment of the complex and forgotten relations between the Qumran community and the Jewish group behind the pseudepigraphal literature of Enoch. The contributors demonstrate that the roots of the Qumran community are to be found in the tradition of the Enoch group rather than that of the Jerusalem priesthood.

Framed by Gabriele Boccaccini's introduction and James Charlesworth's conclusion, this book examines the hypotheses of five particularly eminent scholars, resulting in an engaging and substantive discussion among forty-seven specialists from nine countries. The exceptional array of essays from leading international scholars in Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins makes Enoch and Qumran Origins a sine qua non for serious students of this period.

Contributors:"William Adler

Matthias Albani

Jeff S. Anderson

Albert I. Baumgarten

Andreas Bedenbender

Stefan Beyerle

Gabriele Boccaccini

James H. Charlesworth

John J. Collins

Michael A. Daise

James R. Davila

Torleif Elgvin

Mark A. Elliott

Hanan Eshel

Peter W. Flint

Ida Fröhlich

Florentino García Martínez

Claudio Gianotto

Lester L. Grabbe

Ithamar Gruenwald

Charlotte Hempel

Matthias Henze

Martha Himmelfarb

Michael A. Knibb

Klaus Koch

Helge S. Kvanvig

Armin Lange

Erik W. Larson

Timothy H. Lim

Corrado Martone

George W. E. Nickelsburg

Pierluigi Piovanelli

Émile Puech

Annette Yoshiko Reed

John C. Reeves

Henry W. Morisada Rietz

Paolo Sacchi

Lawrence H. Schiffman

Loren T. Stuckenbruck

David W. Suter

Shemaryahu Talmon

Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar

Patrick Tiller

Liliana Rosso Ubigli

James C. VanderKam

Jacques van Ruiten

Benjamin G. Wright III"