Subscribers to my newsletter know that I have been working on the first of a planned three-volume Reader’s Commentary on the Book of Enoch. That first volume is now shipping on Amazon: A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader’s Commentary, Vol I: The...
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Index of New Testament Allusions to Books of the Pseudepigrapha
Readers of Reversing Hermon know that this information is in an appendix to that book. But in the book these allusions are given in full and are listed by Pseudepigraphical source. That’s one reason that appendix is so long! We should all thank Warren Hart for...
4 Enoch – An Online Resource, Not a Pseudepigraphical Book
Fans of 1 Enoch will find the Wiki resource 4 Enoch eminently useful. Gabriele Boccaccini, a noted scholar of Second Temple Judaism, has a terrific overview of the history of 1 Enoch research and publication. Underneath that survey readers will find hundreds of links...
Aronofsky’s Noah Movie: What It Teaches Us About Christian Ignorance from the Pulpit to the Pew
I’m going to see Noah this week. In preparation, I’ve been reading reviews. If you do the same what you’ll likely find is a mixture of cautious endorsement (“Hey, it’s got crappy Bible content, but it starts a spiritual...
When Uninformed Journalists and Antiquity Collide: The Book of 1 Enoch
This post from Jim Davila’s PaleoJudaica blog made me chuckle. He comments on how a report on an opera based on the book of 1 Enoch being performed in New York makes bonehead errors related. Classic. Davila is an expert on the Pseudepigrapha and Second Temple...
X-Box PaleoBabble: The Book of Enoch as a Video Game
Someone sent me this link today, knowing I’ve spent a good deal of time studying 1 Enoch. The book of 1 Enoch is now the basis for an impending X-Box video game (there is a sample trailer at the link – Japanese version). Check it out. What I saw looks...