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A Commentary On The Animal Apocalypse Of I Enoch »

Authors: Patrick A. Tiller
ISBN-13: 9781555407810, ISBN-10: 1555407811
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Patrick A. Tiller

Book Synopsis

	List of Tables
	List of Excursuses
	Preface
Pt. I	Introduction to the Animal Apocalypse
I	Introduction to the Commentary	3
A	A Review of Previous Scholarship	4
B	The Present Work	13
II	History and Eschatology in the Animal Apocalypse	15
A	The Structure of History	15
B	The Nature of History	18
C	The Nature of the Eschaton	19
III	The Allegory	21
A	The Animal Apocalypse as an Allegory	21
B	The Identity of the Wild Animals	28
C	The Temple and Associated Images	36
D	The Seventy Shepherds	51
IV	The Date of Composition	61
A	General Considerations	61
B	The "Doublet" in 90.13-19	63
C	Conclusions	78
D	1 Enoch 90.6-19 in Parallel Columns	80
V	The Place of the Animal Apocalypse in the Encochic Corpus	83
A	The Book of the Watchers	83
B	The Epistle of Enoch	96
C	The First Dream-vision of Book 4	98
VI	Provenance	101
A	The Political Setting	101
B	The Intellectual Setting	116
C	Conclusions	126
VII	The Text of the Animal Apocalypse	127
A	The Aramaic Text	127
B	Preliminary Observations on the Ethiopic Text	129
C	Places Where Only Part of the Ethiopic Tradition Agrees with the Greek or Aramaic Texts	132
D	The Character of the [alpha] and [beta] Groups	135
Pt. II	Text and Apparatus
VIII	Sigla Used in the Apparatus	141
A	Aramaic	141
B	Greek	141
C	Ethiopic	142
D	Other Signs	144
E	Layout of the Apparatus	145
IX	Text	147
	Chapter 85	147
	Chapter 86	152
	Chapter 87	156
	Chapter 88	159
	Chapter 89	161
	Chapter 90	200
Pt. III	Translation and Notes
	First Division: The Primordial Age	223
	85.1-10. The First Generations	223
	86.1-6. The Fall of the Watchers	234
	87.1-4. The Advent of the Seven Archangels	244
	88.1-3. The Judgment of the Watchers	251
	89.1-9. The Flood	256
	Second Division: The Present Age	269
	89.10-14. The Generations after Noah	269
	89.15-20. Moses	278
	89.21-27. The Exodus	284
	89.28-36. The Desert Wanderings and Sinai	288
	89.37-40. The Entrance into Canaan	298
	89.41-50. From the Judges to Solomon	302
	89.51-58. The Divided Kingdom	315
	89.59-64. The Seventy Shepherds	324
	89.65-71. The Exile	329
	89.72-77. The Persian Period	336
	90.1-5. The Ptolemaic Period	344
	90.6-12. The Seleucid Period	349
	90.13-19. The Final Battle(s)	358
	90.20-27. The Last Judgment	367
	90.28-36. The Restoration	373
	Third Division: The Future Age	383
	90.37-38. The New Humanity	383
	90.28-36. The End of Dream-vision	390
	Bibliography	393
	Indexes	403