Rediscovering Enoch?: The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, 27)

As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past. Contents Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 European Traditions and Trajectories before James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact 1 Enoch Lost and Found?: Rethinking Enochic Reception in the Middle Ages 2 The Book of Enoch in Relation to the Premodern Christian Doctrines of Spiritual Beings 3 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Enoch, and Hermetism 4 Earliest Commentaries on 1 Enoch before Laurence: Pompeo Sarnelli (1710) and Daniele Manin (1820) 5 Enoch and the Genesis of Freemasonry 6 Blake’s Enoch before the Book of Enoch 7 Enoch in the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism) Part 2 Revisiting James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact 8 James Bruce’s Illusory “Book of Enoch the Prophet” 9 James Bruce and His Copies of Ethiopic Enoch 10 A “Rich and Unparalleled Collection”: The Afterlives of James Bruce’s Manuscripts and Drawings 11 When Enoch Left Ethiopia: On Race and Philological (Im)possibilities in the Nineteenth Century Part 3 Enoch beyond Europe 12 The Reception and Function of 1 Enoch in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition 13 The Archangel Uriel in 1 Enoch and Other Ethiopian Texts 14 Scales of Creation or Scales of Judgment?: Variant Readings for Parables of Enoch 41 and 43 15 Heavenly Exiles and Earthly Outcasts: Enochic Concepts of Hermetic Knowledge and Proscribed Lore in Parabiblica Slavica (Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) 16 Enoch as Idrīs in Early Modern Ottoman Sufi Writings: Two Case Studies 17 Why Enoch Did Not Die: The Soul Construction of Enoch in the Zohar and Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah Appendix The Earliest English Translations and Synopses of Ethiopic Enoch (1770–1820) Index "The books of Enoch are famed for having been "lost" in the Middle Ages but "rediscovered" by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians"-- Provided by publisher