Textual Evolution and Growth of the Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

McCarron, Alexander

Brill（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 500 p.
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Full Description

The Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9 evolved and grew as it was translated into, and transmitted in, new and changing socio-linguistic and socio-religious contexts. This study explores how the Enochic theophany evolved in its Aramaic, Greek, Ethiopic and Latin versions, and focuses on the hermeneutical and text-critical implications of these features of textual evolution and growth. These features reveal how the text was read, interpreted, and re-signified as it was translated and transmitted. This study proposes a holistic methodology for exploring textual evolution and growth in fragmentary texts and in fragmentary textual traditions, and for understanding the Enochic theophany as a participant in an ongoing Theophanic and Enochic-Noahic discourse.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

 Abbreviations

Introduction: Textual Evolution and Growth of the Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9

 1 The Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers

 2 Reading the Seams in the Enochic Oracle and the Book of the Watchers

 3 Scripture in the Enochic Theophany and Contemporary Scholarship

 4 The Enochic Theophany, the Pseudepigrapha, and Textual Vitality

 5 Traditionary Processes and the Evolution of the Enochic Theophany

 6 The Methodology, Parameters and Scope of the Study

1 The Enochic Theophany in the Aramaic, Greek and Ethiopic Manuscripts and Fragments

 1 4QEna (4Q201) and 4QEnc (4Q204)

 2 Codex Panopolitanus, the Epistle of Jude 14b-15 and the Latin Quotations

 3 The Eth. I and Eth. II Manuscripts of Ethiopic Enoch

2 The Aramaic Enochic Theophany in 4QEna (4Q201) and 4QEnc (4Q204)

 1 The Reconstruction and Restoration of the Aramaic Fragments of the Enochic Theophany

 2 The Enochic Superscription in 4QEna (BW 1:1)

 3 The Enochic Preamble in 4QEna (BW 1:2-3a)

 4 The Descent of God in 4QEna (BW 1:3b-4)

 5 The Ends of the Earth in 4QEna (BW 1:5-6)

 6 God's Judgment in 4QEnc (BW 1:9)

 7 Conclusion

3 The Greek Enochic Theophany in Codex Panopolitanus (GCP)

 1 The Enochic Superscription in GCP (BW 1:1) and Deuteronomy 33:1

 2 The Enochic Preamble in GCP (1:2-3a) and Balaam and Noah

 3 The Descent of God in GCP (BW 1:3b-4) and the Hebrew Theophanies

 4 The Watchers and the Hidden Things in GCP (BW 1:5)

 5 The High Mountains, the High Hills, and Seismic Destruction in GCP (BW 1:6-7)

 6 The Fate of the Righteous and the Chosen in GCP (BW 1:8)

 7 The Language of the Enochic Theophany in GCP in Its Historical and Socio-Religious Context

 8 Conclusion

4 The Enochic Theophany (BW 1:9) in Codex Panopolitanus, the Epistle of Jude 14b-15 and the Latin Versions

 1 The Relationship between the Greek and Latin Text-Types and Versions

 2 Parallels between GCP and Jude 14b-15

 3 Conclusion

5 The Enochic Theophany in the Eth. I Manuscripts and the Greek Vorlage of the Ethiopic

 1 The Translation of GEth into Ethiopic and the GCP Text-Type

 2 Tana 9 and the Enochic Theophany in the Eth. I Manuscripts

 3 The Language of the Earliest Recoverable Stratum of the Ethiopic Enochic Theophany

 4 Conclusion

6 Textual Evolution and Growth in the Enochic Theophany in the Eth. I and Eth. II Manuscripts

 1 Lexical Manipulation - the Splitting and Flooding of the Earth in Ethiopic Enoch 1:7a

 2 Lexical Replacement - the Judgment of 'All Flesh' in Ethiopic Enoch 1:9d

 3 Interpolations in the Enochic Theophany

 4 Conclusion

Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1: BW 1:1-9 in Codex Panopolitanus Critical Text and Translation

Appendix 2: Ethiopic Enoch 1:1-9 (Eth.EIS) Critical Text and Translation

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Texts

Index of Modern Authors

Indexof Subjects