Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees

Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 10
Preface: The Enigma of Jubilees and the Lesson of the Enoch Seminar / Gabriele Boccaccini......Page 15
PART ONE: JUBILEES AND ITS LITERARY CONTEXT......Page 24
The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees / James C. VanderKam......Page 26
The Composition of Jubilees / Michael Segal......Page 45
The Relationship between Jubilees and the Early Enochic Books (Astronomical Book and Book of the Watchers) / John S. Bergsma......Page 59
Daniel and Jubilees / Matthias Henze......Page 75
The Chronologies of the Apocalypse of Weeks and the Book of Jubilees / James M. Scott......Page 90
The Aramaic Levi Document, the Genesis Apocryphon, and Jubilees: A Study of Shared Traditions / Esther Eshel......Page 105
The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scroll / Lawrence H. Schiffman......Page 122
Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition / Benjamin G. Wright III......Page 139
The Heavenly Counterpart of Moses in the Book of Jubilees / Andrei A. Orlov......Page 154
Jubilees and the Samaritan Tradition / Lester L . Grabbe......Page 168
PART TWO: THE MELTING OF MOSAIC AND ENOCHIC TRADITIONS......Page 184
Enochic Judaism—a Judaism without the Torah and the Temple? / Helge S. Kvanvig......Page 186
The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees / William K. Gilders......Page 201
From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakah / Gabriele Boccaccini......Page 216
Abram's Prayer: The Coherence of the Pericopes in Jubilees 12:16-27 / Jacques van Ruiten......Page 234
Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity / Hindy Najman......Page 252
PART THREE: JUBILEES BETWEEN ENOCH AND QUMRAN......Page 268
4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran / Aharon Shemesh......Page 270
Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees / Lutz Doering......Page 284
Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees / Jonathan Ben-Dov......Page 299
The Book of Jubilees and the Origin of Evil / Loren T. Stuckenbruck......Page 317
The Festivals of Pesah and Massot in the Book of Jubilees / Betsy Halpern-Amaru......Page 332
Eschatological Impulses in Jubilees / John C. Endres, S.J.......Page 346
Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees / Kelley Coblentz Bautch......Page 361
Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in Jubilees: The Evidence of Angelology and Demonology / Annette Yoshiko Reed......Page 376
Worship in Jubilees and Enoch / Erik Larson......Page 392
The Book of Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism / Martha Himmelfarb......Page 407
PART FOUR: WHERE DOES JUBILEES BELONG?......Page 418
Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood / David W. Suter......Page 420
Jubilees and Enochic Judaism / David R. Jackson......Page 434
Jubilees, Qumran, and the Essenes / Eyal Regev......Page 449
The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, 1850-Present / Veronika Bachmann and Isaac W. Oliver......Page 464
Index......Page 492