Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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The books of Enoch are famed for having been “lost” in the Middle Ages but “rediscovered” by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians.
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Charles's dating reflects his conviction that the long recension is the original form and that the short recension is simply a resumé of the whole work with some capricious rearrangements.
“The significance of this particular segment of the text for the dating of the whole work reflects his conviction that the long recension (which he and Morfill designate as “A” and translate from the manuscript P) is the original form and that the short recension (“B”) 34 is simply a resumé of the whole work, with some “capricious” rearrangements of material.”
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The Abbreviations section (page not provided) lists works by R. H. Charles but says nothing about his dating or the relationship between the long and short recensions. Searches for Morfill, manuscript P, “resumé,” and “capricious” found no passage in our copy addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.70)
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- Hessayon, A., Reed, A. Y., & Boccaccini, G.
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- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Medieval Literature and History
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- Enoch, Enochic literature, reception history, early modern reception, Kabbalah, Sufism, Mormonism, Ethiopian Christianity, lost texts
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