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    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.08.10   David S. Powers, Zayd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780812246179. Pp. 192. $59.95 USD. Cloth.   Ze’ev Maghen Professor of Persian Language and Islamic History Bar-Ilan University   The salience and significance of Judeo-Christian topoi in early Islamic historiography cannot be overstated.  The many latter-day attempts (most of them ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.07.09   Lori Baron, Jill Hicks-Keeton, and Matthew Thiessen, eds. The Ways That Often Parted: Essays in Honor of Joel Marcus. Atlanta:SBL Press, 2018. ISBN: 9781628372168. Pp. 432. $61.95. Paperback.   Isaac W. Oliver Dept. Philosophy & Religious Studies Bradley University   In memory of my father, Benoni Batista de Oliveira ז”ל   ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.08.08    Yuval Harari, Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah, trans. by Batya Stein. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780814336304. Pp. 604. $64.99. Paper Cased.   Miruna Belea Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Universität Hamburg   Jewish Magic before the Rise of the Kabbalah begins with a counterintuitive ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.05.07   Pierluigi Piovanelli, Apocryphités: Études sur les textes et les traditions scripturaires du judaïsme et du christianisme anciens. Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. ISBN: 978-2-503-56883-6. Pp. 568. 100 EUR. Paperback.   Ilaria L.E. Ramelli Catholic University – Angelicum – Erfurt MWK – Oxford This is a collection ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.05.06   Mark D. Nanos, Reading Paul Within Judaism: Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 1. Eugene, Oregon:  Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781532617553. Pp. 214. $23.00 USD. Paperback.   Rebecca I. Denova University of Pittsburgh “The Continuing Problem of Rescuing Paul the Jew”   Mark D. Nanos is a Lecturer at the ...

Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.02.05   Tal Ilan and Vered Noam in collaboration with Meir Ben Shahar, Daphne Baratz, and Yael Fisch. Josephus and the Rabbis. 2 volumes. Between Bible and Mishnah. Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2017. ISBN: 9789652174031. Pp. 965. $60 USD. Hardback. [Hebrew].   Gavin McDowell Université Laval Tal Ilan and Vered Noam—with the collaboration of Meir ...

Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.02.04    Nils Arne Pedersen, René Falkenberg, John Møller Larsen, Claudia Leurini. The Old Testament in Manichaean Tradition: The Sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, New Persian, and Arabic, with an Appendix on General References to the Bible. Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum: Series Biblia Manichaica 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. ISBN: 978-2-503-57773-9. Pp. xlvi + ...

Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.01.03   Malka Z. Simkovich. The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. ISBN: 1498542425. Pp. 216. $80 USD. Hardback.     Lester L. Grabbe University of Hull   [For a response by Malka Z. Simkovich, please see the comments that follow below]   Originally a Brandeis PhD thesis, this ...

Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.01.02   Berthelot, Katell. In Search of the Promised Land? The Hasmonean Dynasty between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy. Translated by Margaret Rigaud. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 24. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-525-55252-0. Pp. 494.    Joseph Scales University of Birmingham   Katell Berthelot’s substantial work addresses a common assumption in treatments ...

Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.01.01   Kevin T. van Bladel. From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN: 978-90-04-33943-9. Pp. 154. EUR €40.00 / USD $46.00. Paperback.   James F. McGrath Butler University, Indianapolis   Kevin van Bladel’s book From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes, published in the E. J. Brill series Leiden Studies ...