The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha)

Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 The Entangled Enoch
		Introduction
	1	Renewing the Imagination and Reconsidering Metaphors: on Trees, Rhizomes and the Ecology of Concepts
	2	Relocating and Refiguring Groups and Networks in the Rhizome of Antiquity
		2.1	Complicating the Classification of Groups
		2.2	Reconsidering the Normativity of the Networks and Their Literatures
	3	On Frontiers, Colonialism and Orientalism (with Some Insights from Nissology)
	4	The Distinctive Significance of Syria as Provenance
		Conclusions and Prospects: towards the Entangled Enoch
		Postscript: a Note on Translations and Transliteration
Chapter 2 Reviewing the Provenance of 2 Enoch
	1	An Overview of Manuscripts and Recensions
	2	The First Stages of Academic Research into 2 Enoch: Modern Slavic Scholarship
	3	Reviewing the Debates in Non-Slavic Scholarship
		3.1	R.H. Charles
		3.2	André Vaillant
		3.3	J.T. Milik
		3.4	Francis I. Andersen
		3.5	Christfried Böttrich
		3.6	Andrei Orlov
	4	Further Contributions: Pines, Himmelfarb, Reed and Alexander
	5	The 5th Enoch Seminar: Naples 2009. No Longer Slavonic Only?
		Conclusions
		A Postscript to Chapter 2: Samaritan Contexts for 2 Enoch?
Chapter 3 Reviewing the Date, Provenance and Composition History of the Parables of Enoch
		Reviewing the Dating and Provenance of the Parables of Enoch
	1	The Absence of the Parables from Qumran and the Lack of Early External (i.e., Manuscript and Citation) Evidence
	2	The Similarities and Differences with Demonstrably Early Enoch Material
	3	The Presence of Imagery and Language That Is Similar to That Encountered in the New Testament
	4	The Possibility That the Parables Contains Allusions to Specific Historical Events
	5	The Distinctive Representation of Social and Economic Factors, including the Identification of the Kings and the Mighty Ones
	6	The Composition of the Parables of Enoch
		Conclusions
Chapter 4 Storehouses and Measures
	Parallel Patterns in Metrology and Meteorology in the Parables of Enoch and 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
	1	Storehouses, Treasuries and Measures: Documenting Parallels in the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch
		1.1	Storehouses and Treasuries
		1.2	Measures
		1.3	The Imagery of Storehouses and Measures within the Primary Enoch Literature
	2	Biblical Backgrounds
	3	Parallels in the Dead Sea Scrolls
	4	A Rabbinic Parallel in b.Ḥagigah 12b
	5	Parallels in Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch) and the Hekhalot Literature
	6	Parallels in Other “Pseudepigrapha”
		Concluding Synthesis
Chapter 5 God, Enoch and the Secrets
	Theology, Cosmology, Cosmogony, Eschatology
		Introduction
	1	The Distribution of “Secrets” in the Parables of Enoch and 1 Enoch
	2	God in the Parables of Enoch
	3	The Book of the Secrets of Enoch
	4	God and Cosmos in 2 Enoch: Eclectic Philosophy and Elements of Platonism
		4.1	Negative Language, Measurement, and the Categorical Uniqueness of the Lord
		4.2	Creation in 2 Enoch: Being and Non-being, Visibility and Non-visibility, Nothing Itself
	5	Comparing the Parables and 2 Enoch to Sefer Hekhalot
		Conclusions
Chapter 6 God, Wisdom and Humanity in the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch
	1	Wisdom and Creation outside the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch: Some Framing Considerations
	2	Wisdom in the Parables of Enoch
	3	God, Wisdom and the Creation of Man in 2 Enoch
		3.1	“I Commanded My Wisdom to Create Humanity”
		Conclusions
Chapter 7 Bodily Ascents and Ontological Transformations
		Introduction
	1	Problematizing “Monotheism” as a Context for “Deification”
	2	Visionary Ascent in the Aramaic Enoch Literature and Other Apocalypses
	3	Ascent and Ontological Transformation in the Parables of Enoch: an Embodied Turn?
	4	Bodily Ascent and Ontological Transformation in 2 Enoch
	5	Parallels between 2 Enoch and Manichaean or Mandaean Apocalypses
		Conclusions
Chapter 8 Practical and Symbolic Liturgy, Votive Offerings, and the Cult of the One God in 2 Enoch
		Introduction
	1	2 Enoch and Practical Worship
		1.1	Enoch’s Instruction before His Ascent
		1.2	Enoch’s Instructions after His Ascent and Return
	2	Votive Offerings and Reciprocity: 2 Enoch 61:4&5
		Conclusions
Chapter 9 Animal Offerings and Ritual Theorizing in 2 Enoch
	1	Sacrificial Practice and Theorizing in Antiquity: Framing 2 Enoch in Its Potential Contexts
	2	Philo of Alexandria
	3	2 Enoch: the Head of the Altar and the Sacrificial Knife
	4	Binding the Sacrifice by Four Legs
	5	Theorizing Sacrifice in 2 Enoch: on Divine Sufficiency and the Human Condition
		Conclusions: Reconsidering 2 Enoch in the Contours of Antiquity
Chapter 10 Concluding Synthesis: The Entangled Enoch
	1	Complicating Models and Culturing Rhizomes
	2	The Significance of Groups within the Cultural Rhizome
	3	Reviewing the Provenance of the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch
	4	Common Patterns in the Parables of Enoch and 2 Enoch
	5	Coloration and Context, Cultures and Fashions
	6	Devotional Practices, Divine Reciprocity and the Logics of Sacrifice in 2 Enoch and Late Antiquity
	7	Towards an Account of Transmission
	8	The Pseudepigrapha and the Literate Liminal: Programmatic Implications
		Concluding Comments
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources