The Early Enoch Literature

Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D. Turin (1991) is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal Henoch, director of the Enoch Seminar and editor of its Proceedings.Among his publications are Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism (Eerdmans, 1998), Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel (Eerdmans, 2001).

John J. Collins, Ph.D. Harvard (1972) is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School. He has published extensively on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Second Temple Judaism. His more recent books include Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2004), Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture (Brill, 2005), Encounters with Biblical Theology (Fortress, 2005), and The Bible after Babel. Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Eerdmans, 2005).