9. An Enochic Reading of Genesis 6:1–4 from the Beginning of the Persian Era?

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Boccaccini Biography V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Contents IX
5. List of Abbreviations XV
6. Enoch and Beyond: Reflections on the Scholarship of Gabriele Boccaccini 1
7. Part I: Enoch and the Roots of Apocalyptic
8. 1. Giants or Titans? Remarks on the Greek Versions of 1 Enoch 7.2 and 9.9 15
9. 2. The Identity of the Son of Man in the Traditional Ethiopian Commentaries of 1 Enoch 24
10. 3. The 94 Books of Ezra and the Angelic Revelations of John Dee 32
11. 4. Echoes of Enoch in Early Modern England: “Enoch Prayer” (London, British Library MS Sloane 3821) 45
12. 5. Panopolitanus and Its Relationship to Other Greek Witnesses of the Book of the Watchers 72
13. 6. The “Horned Demon” and the Watchers 89
14. 7. From Prophecy to Apocalyptic 100
15. 8. The Text of Jeremiah in 1 Enoch 121
16. 9. An Enochic Reading of Genesis 6:1–4 from the Beginning of the Persian Era? 142
17. 10. The Liminality of Enoch the Outsider: Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective upon Being “Taken” 150
18. 11. Versions of the Angel Story in 1 Enoch 6–11 166
19. 12. Rethinking the Divide between 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Getting to the (Evil) Heart of the Matter 177
20. Part II: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Beyond
21. 13. A Private Part of Enoch: A Forged Fragment of 1 Enoch 8:4–9:3 195
22. 14. Il tema della Conversione in alcune opere qumraniche 204
23. 15. An Ideology of Poverty in 4QInstruction 215
24. 16. Sexuality Issues and Conflict Development in Qumran Literature 232
25. Part III: Second Temple Jewish Views and Voices
26. 17. Compositional Education in Philo’s De vita Mosis and Theon’s Progymnasmata 253
27. 18. Tobit and Ahiqar 276
28. 19. What’s in a Name? Naming and Renaming in Joseph and Aseneth 292
29. 20. Sap 4,10–14 e la figura di Enoch: un rapporto polemico 303
30. 21. The Good Angel That Delivered the Jews: How 2 Maccabees Adapted Daniel 7 and the Angel of the Lord Tradition 315
31. 22. The Sabbath: From Torah to Halakah 334
32. 23. Two Powers in Heaven… Manifested 351
33. 24. Mapping Ideologies in Second Temple Judaism 365
34. 25. A Character in Search of a Story: The Reception of Ben Sira in Early Medieval Judaism 378
35. Part IV: From the Same Womb: Jesus and His Jewish Followers
36. 26. The Baptism of John in a Second Temple Jewish Context 399
37. 27. Was Jesus Influenced by Sports as Paul the Sports Enthusiast? 415
38. 28. The Johannine Community and the Fourth Gospel: A Polemic Against Enochian Apocalypticism 428
39. 29. The End of History: Common Concepts in 1 Enoch and Mark 437
40. 30. What Did the Author of Acts Know About Pre-70 Judaism? 450
41. 31. Sacrifice, Prayer, and the Holy Spirit: The Tamid Offering in Luke-Acts 463
42. 32. La figura di Giovanni Battista alla luce della letteratura qumranica: alcune considerazioni 476
43. 33. Being Children of Abraham: Salvation “By Belonging” in the New Testament 488
44. 34. Are Luke and Acts Anti-Marcionite? 499
45. 35. “I Have Been Born Among You”: Jesus, Jews, and Christians in the Second Century 526
46. Part V: Ways Not Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
47. 36. The Talmudic Apocalypse: Ḥagigah, Chapter 2 541
48. 37. John the Baptist According to Marcion’s Gospel and Early Syriac Texts 556
49. 38. Unveiling the Obvious—Synagogue and Church: Sisters or Different Species? 575
50. 39. Christian Paideia and the Politics of Empire in Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum 593
51. List of Contributors 605