it is sad that so few have joined this group so far. It make commentary somewhat incestuous. However, let me make the following comment for Ben Sira - just...
Hi Frank, Do you have a Ben Sira commentary to recommend? David ... to ... marked ... and ... by ... have ... two ... I ... hand, ... forgery, ... for ... he ...
There are several good books on Ben Sira. The classical commentary on Ben Sira is the Anchor Bible series: Skehan, P.W., and Di Lella, A.A. (1987). The...
David -I am not as willing as you are to suggest 1 Enoch was written in the Christian era. I have no doubt that 3 Enoch (found only in a Hebrew version) was...
David - there wer many various Jewish sects and offsprings in the first century of Roman/Herodian dominance in Palestine. Each had their own particular...
I wasn't asserting Christian-era origination of 1Enoch. I wrote that I think Enochic thought is reflected in Christ, meaning, 1Enoch (Ethiopic) as an...
I should not have sounded as confident of my dates as I did. I have not worked the Enoch tradition so I should be more careful. I just feel that once the...
... The biennial Enoch Seminars began in 2001. In the off years, the previous year's seminar articles are published. If one is able to wade through the...
No problem, Frank. Thanks for the clarification. I understand your logic and it does make sense. But in this case, regarding 3Enoch, it is (as I recall from...
Thanks Bob, I located the proceedings of the 2nd conference and have it on order. One of these days I hope to pen a little essay on the sorry state of all...
Frank, One more thought just came to me on this thesis of your. A curious coincidence. The gist of your timeline is that the Dtr dating comes out to be...
Thanks Bob, this is a good comparison chart. 3-4 yrs ago James Vandkam and George Nickelsburg came out with a new 1Enoch translation reflecting DSS and lots of...
Well I don't violate copyright, and of course would not add a fourth column to your layoug. But I think that a meticulous annotating of your 3 similar...
It seems to be having a revival without any launches! Revision: 4/7/08 The Sequestration of Enoch "Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the...
Great stuff Bob! You are right on the beam! I agree with your analysis that God has preserved Enoch for precisely this point in time. By a funny coincidence,...
One quick afterthought before I wrap for the night and get ready for bed... regarding your point about the radically AntiMosaic religious element in 1Enoch, as...
You may find this book review of interest. http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JBL1234.pdf A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17–19: "No One Has Seen What I...
i want top thank you for the referneces for Enoch - especially on that Enoch conference every year. However, as I looked over the names, I saw a number of...
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A couple of years ago, I published a paper on the date of the LXX in which I argued there is no evidence and no witnesses to support a claim the Greek...
This is a proposed line-up of all the Old Testament-era books currently in use in churches. If we had a Bible which included all the books currently in use...
I believe the only way you can include all these texts in the "Old Testament" is to assume the first century CE should be part of the deal. When were 3 and 4...
Hi Frank, i've been busy and am just now catching up. Regarding your late dating. Perhaps of interest to you (from Vanderkam/Flint book on the DSS) At Qumran...
Hello Bob, Interesting idea you have on expanding the canon. Curiously though, unlike your tack, I have gone quite the opposite way with the same issue--toward...
That these books are included in the canonical list of books of the Bible for one or more of the ancient communions of the church is what this list is about....
