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1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108 (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible)

1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108 (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Better late than never
Review: This volume represents a lifetime of work by one of the most brilliant and influential scholars of Second Temple Judaism. It has been a long time in coming--the author was awarded the contract while still a graduate student, and this volume (the first of two volumes on 1 Enoch) came out the year after his retirement.

I cannot recomend strongly enough that students of early Christianity familiarize themselves with this volume, as well as its forthcoming companion volume to be co-authored by George Nichelsburg and James Vanderkam. The book of Enoch is, after the canonical book of Daniel, the most important work of Jewish apocalyptic thought--the fertile ground from which earliest Christianity sprung. As a testament to the importance of this book in the earliest years of Christianity's growth, one need look no farther than the canonical book of Jude--which cites the book of 1 Enoch as if it itself were canonical scripture (which it clearly was to the author of Jude and numerous Christians and Jews of the time).

Nickelburg's commentary is a landmark in the study of 1 Enoch, Second Temple Judaism, and Christian origins. I certainly do not concur with all of Nickelburg's conclusions regarding the book (particularly in his insistence that the work be classified with the pseudepigraphic testamentary literautre)--however, no serious student of incipient Christianity and Judaism can afford to ignore this important study.


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