Enochic Biography and the Manuscript History of 1 Enoch: The Codex Panopolitanus Book of the Watchers (original) (raw)
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The Epistle of Enoch: Genre and Authorial Presentation
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To the extent that a writing openly presents itself as the result of authorial activity, discussions of genre cannot dispense with the question of how, formally, communication occurs. Taking the Epistle of Enoch and Apocalypse of Weeks in 1 Enoch as the points of departure, the present essay attempts to show that a discussion of what a document declares about its own writtenness opens up a way of understanding it in comparison to other documents that do the same along analogous lines, whether sapiential or apocalyptic.
Enoch From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I: Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Published by Oxford University Press, 2018
Assembles citations of and references to writings attributed to the biblical antediluvian forefather Enoch in post-biblical Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literary sources (ranging in age from roughly the third century BCE up through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE) into one convenient collection, and compares, classifies, and analyzes these references and citations in order to develop a clearer picture of the scope and range of the corpus of works attributed to Enoch and his subsequent inter-religious avatars.