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Additional papers from the first two Enoch Seminar (2001-2003). — “In recent years there has been a lively debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in Judaism. This volume is intended to represent that debate, by juxtaposing pairs of articles on several key issues: the textual evidence, the relationship to the Torah, the calendar, the relation to wisdom, the ...

Józef Tadeusz Milik (1922-2006) was a Polish scholar, active mainly in France, one of the leading Qumran specialists of his generation, and the editor of the Aramaic fragments of the First Book of Enoch.

Additional papers from the 2nd Enoch Seminar (Venice 2003). — Published in Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005.

Papers from the 2nd Enoch Seminar (Venice 2003). — “The rediscovery of Enochic Judaism as an ancient movement of dissent within Second Temple Judaism, a movement centered on neither temple nor torah, is a major achievement of contemporary research. After being marginalized, ancient Enoch texts have reemerged as a significant component of the Dead Sea Scrolls library unearthed at Qumran. ...

Papers from the 1st Enoch Seminar (Florence, 2001). — Published in Turin: Zamorani, 2002.

Yigael Yadin (1917-1984) was an Israeli scholar. Yadin led the excavations at Masada. Published the editio princeps of the Temple Scroll.

Alejandro Díez Macho (1916-1984) was a Spanish scholar. Díez Macho was born in Villafría de la Peña (Palencia, Spain) in May 1916. He joined the the Roman Catholic Church in 1932 and began to study theology in the Gregorian University of Rome in 1935, though he was forced to interrupt his studies due to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In ...

Annie Jaubert (1912-1980) was a French scholar and a specialist in Qumran Studies.

Samuel Sandmel (1911-1979) was a Jewish-American scholar. Born in Dayton, OH on September 11, 1911. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1932, received his rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College and was ordained in 1937. Studied New Testament at Duke University and then Yale, where in 1949 he completed his PhD and began his teaching career. From 1949-1952 ...

Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) was a Jewish-Italian scholar. A specialist in Hellenistic Judaism and Professor at the University of Turin, moved to England in 1938, following the introduction of the Racial Laws in Italy, to teach at Oxford University and University College, London.