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 ...
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Isaac Oliver Reviews The Ways That Often Parted
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 ...
Read More »Miruna Belea Reviews Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
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 ...
Read More »Ilaria Ramelli Reviews Apocryphités: Études sur les textes et les traditions scripturaires du judaïsme du christianisme anciens
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 ...
Read More »Rebeca Denova Reviews Reading Paul Within Judaism
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 ...
Read More »Gavin McDowell Reviews Josephus and the Rabbis
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 ...
Read More »Eric Crégheur Reviews The Old Testament in Manichaean Tradition
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 + ...
Read More »Lester Grabbe Reviews The Making of Jewish Universalism (Simkovich)
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 ...
Read More »Joseph Scales Reviews In Search of the Promised Land (Berthelot)
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 ...
Read More »James F. McGrath Reviews From Sasanian Mandaeans to Sabians (van Bladel)
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 ...
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