Text-critical Edition and Translation of 1 Enoch
Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Final Report Abstract
The research leading to the edition and translation of 1 Enoch for publication in 2023 has resulted in the following advances. (1) Whereas before, the number of manuscript witnesses to the early Ge‘ez version 1 Enoch (which is only fully preserved in Ethiopic) in an edition was 8 (Knibb 1978) and 11 (behind the translations of Uhlig 1984 and Nickelsburg-VanderKam in 2004/2012), the edition has drawn on no less than 33, many of which are now the most important witnesses to the book. The number does not include formal quotations, some extensive, from 13 Ethiopic compositions dated to the 15th to 17th centuries. (2) The edition presents synoptically the text-critically derived early recension (Eth I) opposite the traditional text of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Eth II, using IES 77), around which 12 mostly unstudied manuscripts are collated. (3) The texts plus apparatus display the rich diversity of the 1 Enoch tradition in Ethopic as never before. (4) Whereas scholarly discourse about 1 Enoch has used the Ethiopic tradition to access a Second Temple text, the edition yields and displays a much more complex picture, one that has implications for other textual research on tertiary versions of Second Temple literature. (5) The edition is the first to include a critical analysis of the division markers within the text. During the analysis of a fuller range of manuscripts than had previously been studied, the project was surprised by the number (seven) of late 19 th and 20th century Ethiopic manuscripts that preserve some of our earliest forms of the text. These manuscripts, in turn, are each copies of a now lost Vorlage that bear similarities to texts of the older recension (Eth I) dated to the 15th and 16th centuries. A further surprise has been the degree to which paratexts among the manuscripts to 1 Enoch illuminate the text tradition, for example, through glosses, erasures, corrections, internal headings, and even illustrations/drawings. Moreover, the editorial work was expanded to accommodate the unexpected significance that differences among division markers among the manuscripts make for determining alternative translations. Finally, the discovery of 1 Enoch in the underwriting of a palimpsest at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin was unanticipated and provided impetus for research involving specialist photography to recover the otherwise illegible text. This discovery, along with the continuing identification of further text for the older recension (Eth I) has required continuous reworking of the edition to take into account significant evidence for what was once rare for the study of the text.
Publications
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“Coping with Alienating Experience: Four Strategies from the Second Temple Period”. In ed. Stanley Porter, Rejection: God’s Refugees in Biblical and Contemporary Perspective (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2015), Ss. 57-83
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“Eschatologie und Zeit im 1 Henoch”. In ed. Markus Tiwald, Q in Context I. The Separation between the Just and the Unjust in Early Judaism and in the Sayings Source (BBB 172; Göttingen: V&R unipress / Bonn University Press, 2015), Ss. 43-60
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“1 Enoch 1: A Comparison of Two Translations”. In eds. Lorenzo DiTomasso and Gerbern S. Oegema, New Vistas on Early Judaism and Christianity (Jewish and Christian Texts, 540; London: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2016), Ss. 25-40
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“Theological Anthropology and the Enochic Book of Watchers (1 En. 6-16)”. In eds. Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten and George H. van Kooten, Dust of the Ground and Breath of Life (Gen 2:7): The Problem of a Dualistic Anthropology in Early Judaism and Christianity (TBN 20: Leiden: Brill, 2016), Ss. 16-35
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“The Library and Old Testament Manuscripts of Gundä Gunde.” In Hg. Adam Carter McCollum, Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature and History: Festschrift for Getatchew Haile. Aeth For 83; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017, Ss. 297–319
Erho, Ted M.
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“The Use of the Psalms in Ethiopic Enoch.” In Hgg. Thomas C. Oden with Curt Niccum, The Songs of Africa: The Ethiopian Canticles (New Haven: ICCS Press, 2017), Ss. 153-166
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“Witnesses to the Ethiopic I Recension of Mashafa Henok from Gunda Gunde: A Comparison.” In Hg. Adam Carter McCollum, Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History Festschrift for Getatchew Haile Presented by his Friends and Colleagues. Aeth For 83; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017), Ss. 473-492
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“Die Entdeckung verlorener Text: Foto- und Textarbeiten am Untertext einer altäthiopischen Handschrift.“ In Bibliotheksmagazin – Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken zu Berlin und München 13 n.2 (2018), Ss. 72-76
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. u. Ira Rabin
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“EMML 8400 and Notes on the Reading of Hēnok in Ethiopia.” In Hg. Liv Ingeborg Lied, The Bible as Notepad (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018), Ss. 125–129
Erho, Ted M. u. Loren T. Stuckenbruck
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“The Exhortation of Enoch and the Epistle of Enoch” and “Apocalypse of Weeks (1 Enoch 93:1 – 10 and 91:11–17).” In Hgg. Brad Embry, Ronald Herms, and Archie T. Wright, Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology (2 vols.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018), Bd. 1, Ss. 70–94 und 1.245–255
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“5.1.2 Ethiopic of 1 Enoch.” In Hgg. Frank Feder and Matthias Henze, Textual History of the Bible. Volume 2A: The Deutero-Canonial Scriptures (Leiden: Brill, 2019), Ss. 302–307
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. u. Ted M. Erho
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“8.6 Ethiopic [Jubilees].” In Hgg. Frank Feder u. Matthias Henze, Textual History of the Bible. Volume 2C: Deutero-Canonical Scriptures (Leiden: Brill, 2019), Ss. 35–44
Erho, Ted M. u. James Hamrick
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“Pseudepigrapha and Their Manuscripts.” In Hgg. Matthias Henze u. Liv Ingeborg Lied, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Fifty Years of the Pseudepigrapha Section at the SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 50 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019), Ss. 203– 230
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. u. Liv Ingeborg Lied
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“A Fourth Ethiopic Witness to the Shepherd of Hermas.” In Hgg. Madalina Toca u. Dan Batovici, Caught in Translation: Studies on Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 17 (Leiden: Brill, 2020), Ss. 241–266
Erho, Ted M.
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“The Apocalypse of Weeks: Periodization and Traditionhistorical Context.” In Hgg. Andrew Perry u. Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Four Kingdoms Motif in Second Temple Judaism and in Jewish and Christian Reception. TBN 28 (Leiden: Brill, 2020), Ss. 81-95
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“What Is Second Temple Judaism?”. In Hgg. Daniel M. Gurtner u. Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (2 vols.; London: T & T Clark International / Bloomsbury, 2020), Bd. 1, Ss. 1– 19
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“Gottesbilder in den Henoch-Gleichnissen (1Hen 37–71): Ein Überblick.” In Hg. Veronika Burz Tropper, Gottes-Bilder: Zur Metaphorik biblischer Gottesrede. BWANT 232 (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2021), Ss. 54-70
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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“Has Christian Tradition Influenced the Geez and Greek Versions of 1 Enoch?” In Hgg. Meron Gebreananaye, Logan Williams u. Francis Watson, Beyond Canon: Christian Origins and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition (London: T & T Clark International / Bloomsbury, 2021), Ss. 55-66
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.