Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini

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This collection presents innovative research by scholars from across the globe in celebration of Gabriele Boccaccini's sixtieth birthday and to honor his contribution to the study of early Judaism and Christianity. In harmony with Boccaccini's determination to promote the study of Second Temple Judaism in its own right, this volume includes studies on various issues raised in early Jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g., 1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra), the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other early Jewish texts, from Tobit to Ben Sira to Philo and beyond. The volume also provides several investigations on early Christianity in intimate conversation with its Jewish sources, consistent with Boccaccini's efforts to transcend confessional and disciplinary divisions by situating the origins of Christianity firmly within Second Temple Judaism. Finally, the volume includes essays that look at Jewish-Christian relations in the centuries following the Second Temple period, a harvest of Boccaccini's labor to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in light of their shared yet contested heritage. Boccaccini Biography Acknowledgments Contents List of Abbreviations Enoch and Beyond: Reflections on the Scholarship of Gabriele Boccaccini Part I: Enoch and the Roots of Apocalyptic 1. Giants or Titans? Remarks on the Greek Versions of 1 Enoch 7.2 and 9.9 2. The Identity of the Son of Man in the Traditional Ethiopian Commentaries of 1 Enoch 3. The 94 Books of Ezra and the Angelic Revelations of John Dee 4. Echoes of Enoch in Early Modern England: “Enoch Prayer” (London, British Library MS Sloane 3821) 5. Panopolitanus and Its Relationship to Other Greek Witnesses of the Book of the Watchers 6. The “Horned Demon” and the Watchers 7. From Prophecy to Apocalyptic 8. The Text of Jeremiah in 1 Enoch 9. An Enochic Reading of Genesis 6:1–4 from the Beginning of the Persian Era? 10. The Liminality of Enoch the Outsider: Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective upon Being “Taken” 11. Versions of the Angel Story in 1 Enoch 6–11 12. Rethinking the Divide between 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Getting to the (Evil) Heart of the Matter Part II: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Beyond 13. A Private Part of Enoch: A Forged Fragment of 1 Enoch 8:4–9:3 14. Il tema della Conversione in alcune opere qumraniche 15. An Ideology of Poverty in 4QInstruction 16. Sexuality Issues and Conflict Development in Qumran Literature Part III: Second Temple Jewish Views and Voices 17. Compositional Education in Philo’s De vita Mosis and Theon’s Progymnasmata 18. Tobit and Ahiqar 19. What’s in a Name? Naming and Renaming in Joseph and Aseneth 20. Sap 4,10–14 e la figura di Enoch: un rapporto polemico 21. The Good Angel That Delivered the Jews: How 2 Maccabees Adapted Daniel 7 and the Angel of the Lord Tradition 22. The Sabbath: From Torah to Halakah 23. Two Powers in Heaven… Manifested 24. Mapping Ideologies in Second Temple Judaism 25. A Character in Search of a Story: The Reception of Ben Sira in Early Medieval Judaism Part IV: From the Same Womb: Jesus and His Jewish Followers 26. The Baptism of John in a Second Temple Jewish Context 27. Was Jesus Influenced by Sports as Paul the Sports Enthusiast? 28. The Johannine Community and the Fourth Gospel: A Polemic Against Enochian Apocalypticism 29. The End of History: Common Concepts in 1 Enoch and Mark 30. What Did the Author of Acts Know About Pre-70 Judaism? 31. Sacrifice, Prayer, and the Holy Spirit: The Tamid Offering in Luke-Acts 32. La figura di Giovanni Battista alla luce della letteratura qumranica: alcune considerazioni 33. Being Children of Abraham: Salvation “By Belonging” in the New Testament 34. Are Luke and Acts Anti-Marcionite? 35. “I Have Been Born Among You”: Jesus, Jews, and Christians in the Second Century Part V: Ways Not Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity 36. The Talmudic Apocalypse: Ḥagigah, Chapter 2 37. John the Baptist According to Marcion’s Gospel and Early Syriac Texts 38. Unveiling the Obvious—Synagogue and Church: Sisters or Different Species? 39. Christian Paideia and the Politics of Empire in Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum List of Contributors