Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

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