Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document.

Author: Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 498
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780802864093

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/02/2009 pg. 18

About the Author
Ibba, Giovanni: - Giovanni Ibba is adjunct professor of Biblical Hebrew atCentral Italy Theological Seminary in Florence and adjunctprofessor of history of religions at the University ofSiena, Italy.

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