1 Enoch 91-108
1 Enoch 91-108 (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (Cejl))
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110191199
DDC: 809
Edition: Hardcover; 2007-12-19
Summary:
The volume is a commentary on 1 Enoch chapters 91-108 that begins
with the Ethiopic text tradition but also takes the Greek and Aramaic
(Dead Sea Scrolls) evidence into account. This section of 1 Enoch,
which contains material from at least five different documents
composed some time during the 2nd century BCE, provides a window into
the early stages of the reception of the earliest Enoch tradition, as
it was being negotiated in relation to elitist religious opponents,
on the one hand, and in relation to other Jewish traditions that were
flourishing at the time. The commentary, at the beginning of which
there is an extensive introduction, is structured in the following
way: there is a translation for each unit of text (including the
Greek and Aramaic where it exists, with the Greek and Ethiopic
translations presented synoptically), followed by detailed textual
notes that justify the translation and provide information on a full
range of variations among the manuscripts. This, in turn, is followed
by a General Comment on the unit of text; after this there are
detailed notes on each subdivision of the text which attempt to
situate the content within the stream of biblical interpretation and
developing Jewish traditions of the Second Temple period. The five
documents in 1 Enoch 91-108 are dealt with in the following order:
(1) Apocalypse of Weeks (93:1-10; 91:11-17); (2) Admonition (91:1-10,
18-19); (3) Epistle of Enoch (92:1-5; 93:11-105:2; (4) Birth of Noah
(106-107); and (5) the Eschatological Appendix (108).
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