Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.11.10 Edmon L. Gallagher and John D. Meade. The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £35/€40. ISBN 9780198792499. Pp. 359. Hardcover. Juan Carlos Ossandón Pontificia Università della Santa Croce Italy Edmon L. Gallagher (Associate Professor of Christian Scripture, Heritage Christian University in Florence, ...
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Andrew Higginbotham Reviews Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.11.09 David M. Grossberg. Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 168. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-16-155147-5. 277 + x. €129. Cloth. Andrew Higginbotham Ivy Tech Community College – Riverfront Lawrenceburg, IN David M. Grossberg enters boldly into the present conversation over the ...
Read More »Rebecca Denova Reviews Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels (Stuckenbruck & Boccaccini)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.09.08 Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds. Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780884141198. Pp. 447. $82.95. Hardcover. Rebecca Denova University of Pittsburgh Founded in 2001 by Gabriele Boccaccini, the Enoch Seminar is based in the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies at the University of ...
Read More »Mark Kinzer Reviews Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle (Fredriksen)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.07.07 Paula Fredriksen. Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780300225884. Pp. 336. $35.00 Mark S. Kinzer Messianic Jewish Theological Institute One of the most creative currents in the world of recent Pauline scholarship is that which seeks to situate the apostle so thoroughly in his Second-Temple Jewish context ...
Read More »Gavin McDowell Reviews Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Traditions (Kulik & Minov)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.06.05 Alexander Kulik & Sergey Minov. Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Traditions. Oxford: OUP, 2016. ISBN: 9780199590940. Pp. 224. $125. Hardcover. Gavin McDowell Université Laval Alexander Kulik’s and Sergey Minov’s Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition is an important and necessary volume on the extrabiblical traditions prevalent in the literature of Eastern Europe. ...
Read More »Benjamin J. Snyder reviews Torah: Deutéronome et Pentateuque dans son ensemble
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.06.06 Marie-France Dion, Damien Labadie, Michaël Langlois, Thierry Legrand, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, trans. Torah: Deutéronome et Pentateuque dans son ensemble vol. 3b of La bibliothèque de Qumrân: Édition et traduction des manuscrits hébreux, araméens et grecs, Katell Berthelot, Michaël Langlois, and Thierry Legrand, eds. Paris: Cerf, 2017. ISBN: 9782204111478. Pp. 760. ...
Read More »Jason Staples reviews Peter’s Halakhic Nightmare (John R. L. Moxon)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.04.04 John R. L. Moxon, Peter’s Halakhic Nightmare: The “Animal” Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe 432. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-16-153301-3. Pp. XXV + 638. 129 €. Sewn Paper. Jason A. Staples North Carolina State University Peter’s vision in Acts 10, ...
Read More »Aleksander R. Michalak reviews The Danielic Discourse on Empire (Alexandria Frisch)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.04.03 Alexandria Frisch, The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 176. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN: 9789004331297. Pp. 263. $132/€120. Hardback. Aleksander R. Michalak University of Gdansk In her book, Alexandria Frisch addresses the important and somewhat neglected scholarly issue, namely, ...
Read More »Giancarlo P. Angulo reviews Divine Deliverance (L. Stephanie Cobb)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.01.02 L. Stephanie Cobb, Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780520293359. Pp. 264. $95.00. Hardcover. Giancarlo P. Angulo Florida State University Stephanie Cobb’s book Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts argues that the early Christian martyrs—as they ...
Read More »Hanan Birenboim reviews Purity and Community in Antiquity (Yair Furstenberg)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2018.01.01 Yair Furstenberg, Purity and Community in Antiquity: Traditions of the Law from Second Temple Judaism to the Mishnah. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2016 [Hebrew]. ISBN: 978-965-493-874-7. Pp. 479. $42. Hardcover. Hanan Birenboim The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Observance of purity laws was one of the most salient features of Jewish society in ...
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