Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Ariel Hessayon, Ph.D. (1996), Cambridge University, is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. His publications include "Gold Tried in the Fire": The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution (2007).Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ph.D. (2002), Princeton University, is Professor of the New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent books are Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (2018) and Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020).Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D. (1991), University of Turin, is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Michigan. He is the founding director of the Enoch Seminar. His most recent book is Paul's Three Paths to Salvation (2020).

• AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors IntroductionAnnette Yoshiko Reed, Ariel Hessayon and Gabriele BoccacciniPart 1: European Traditions and Trajectories before James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact1 Enoch Lost and Found?Rethinking Enochic Reception in the Middle AgesAnnette Yoshiko Reed2 The Book of Enoch in Relation to the Premodern Christian Doctrines of Spiritual BeingsEuan Cameron3 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Enoch, and HermetismGiulio Busi4 Earliest Commentaries on 1 Enoch before LaurencePompeo Sarnelli (1710) and Daniele Manin (1820)Gabriele Boccaccini5 Enoch and the Genesis of FreemasonryTobias Churton6 Blake’s Enoch before the Book of EnochFrancis Borchardt7 Enoch in the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism)Jared W. LudlowPart 2: Revisiting James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact8 James Bruce’s Illusory “Book of Enoch the Prophet”Ted M. Erho9 James Bruce and His Copies of Ethiopic EnochAriel Hessayon10 A “Rich and Unparalleled Collection”The Afterlives of James Bruce’s Manuscripts and DrawingsAriel Hessayon11 When Enoch Left EthiopiaOn Race and Philological (Im)possibilities in the Nineteenth CenturyElena DuganPart 3: Enoch beyond Europe12 The Reception and Function of 1 Enoch in the Ethiopian Orthodox TraditionRalph Lee13 The Archangel Uriel in 1 Enoch and Other Ethiopian TextsDaniel Assefa14 Scales of Creation or Scales of Judgment?Variant Readings for Parables of Enoch 41 and 43Robert G. Hall15 Heavenly Exiles and Earthly OutcastsEnochic Concepts of Hermetic Knowledge and Proscribed Lore in Parabiblica Slavica (Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)Florentina Badalanova Geller16 Enoch as Idrīs in Early Modern Ottoman Sufi WritingsTwo Case StudiesKameliya Atanasova17 Why Enoch Did Not DieThe Soul Construction of Enoch in the Zohar and Sixteenth-Century KabbalahShaul MagidAppendix: The Earliest English Translations and Synopses of Ethiopic Enoch (1770–1820)Ariel Hessayon