Open Access Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism

The 4 Enoch Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism is made of 4 major components:

(a) 4 ENOCH SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH

• Ancient Israel (Hebrew Bible) Studies
• Second Temple Studies& New Testament (Christian Origins) Studies
  • Early Samaritan Studies -- OT Apocrypha Studies / OT Pseudepigrapha Studies / Wisdom Studies / Apocalyptic Studies / Hellenistic-Jewish Studies / Qumran Studies / Enochic Studies / Philo Studies / Josephus Studies
  • Historical Jesus Studies / Gospels Studies / Pauline Studies / Petrine Studies / Johannine Studies
• Early Christian Studies -- Early Jewish Studies -- Early Islamic Studies

(b) 4 ENOCH DICTIONARY OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM

• Second Temple Judaism -> People -- Places -- Artifacts -- Events -- Texts -- Topics

(c) 4 ENOCH ABSTRACTS OF SCHOLARLY & FICTIONAL WORKS

• Scholarship -- Fiction -- Non-Fiction -- Arch-fi -- Archaeology -- Research tools
• Languages -- Countries -- Cities -- Fields of research -- Works' chronology

(d) 4 ENOCH BIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN AUTHORS

• Scholars -- Authors -- Identities -- Expertise -- People's generations

4 Enoch offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to scholarly research in Second Temple Judaism (including Samaritan and Christian Origins), i.e. the period from Ezekiel to the completion of the New Testament and the Mishnah. It also deals with the roots of Second Temple traditions in the ancient Israelite religion (see Ancient Israel Studies), as well as the influence and legacy of those traditions for Christian, Jewish and Islamic origins and relations, up to the time of the completion of the Qur'an (see Early Christian Studies, Early Jewish Studies, and Early Islamic Studies).
With ore than 15,000 pages, "4 Enoch" provides a comprehensive WHO's WHO of the period, as well as BIOGRAPHIES of Scholars and Authors, and ABSTRACTS of scholarly and fictional Works, authored from the mid-15th century to the present, all around the world. Still a work in progress, the Encyclopedia, created in 2009 by Gabriele Boccaccini of the University of Michigan with the collaboration of Carlos A. Segovia of the Camilo Jose Cela University Madrid, is the collective work of international specialists in the field associated with the Enoch Seminar[1]

• Enter the GENERAL INDEX (here) to see the contents of the Encyclopedia in more details.

• Are you a scholar or graduate student, and would you like to contribute to the Encyclopedia? Please, contact Editor-in-Chief Professor Gabriele Boccaccini<gbocca@umich.edu>, or Associate Editor Professor Carlos A. Segovia<segoviamail@gmail.com>, and join the team of international specialists working in this project.

• Visit ENOCH SEMINAR Online to see the many activities of the Enoch Seminar.

[Note: 4 Enoch is a work in progress (changes are made of a daily basis). Some entries are fully developed, others exist only in a draft form. Evertytime you visit the site, you will see that new features have been added. ]

Contents [hide] 1Editorial Board 1.1Thematic Board 1.2Language Board 2History 3News and Obituaries 4Conferences

Editorial Board

• Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan (USA) – Editor-in-chief
  • Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo Jose Cela University (Madrid, Spain, EU) – Associate Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board
    • Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edward's University (Austin, Texas, USA)
    • Samuele Rocca (Israel)
    • Shayna Sheinfeld, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
    • Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, Hungary, EU)
      • Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan (USA)
      • Deborah Forger, University of Michigan (USA)

Thematic Board

• Samuele Rocca (Israel) – Associate Editor and Chair of the Board
• Shayna Sheinfeld, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) – Associate Editor and Co-Chair of the Board
  • Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan (USA) – in charge for Second Temple Studies
  • Leonard V. Rutgers, University of Utrecht (Netherlands, EU) – in charge for Hellenistic-Jewish Studies
  • Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands, EU) – in charge for Josephus Studies
  • Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo José Cela University (Madrid, Spain, EU) – in charge for Early Islamic Studies
  • Emilio González Ferrín, University of Seville (Spain, EU) – in charge for Early Islamic Studies
    • Jack Pastor, Oranim Academic College (Israel) / Second Temple Studies

Language Board

• Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, Hungary, EU) – Associate Editor and Chair of the Board
  • Daniel Assefa, Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia) – in charge for Ethiopic Scholarship
  • Florentina Badalanova-Geller, Freie-Universität Berlin (Germany, EU) – in charge for Bulgarian Scholarship and Serbo-Croatian Scholarship
  • Emmanouela Grypeou, University of Oxford (England, UK, EU) – in charge for Greek Scholarship
  • Paul Kim, Methodist Theological School (Ohio, USA) – in charge for Korean Scholarship
  • Ludmila Navtanovich (St Petersburg, Russia) – in charge for Russian Scholarship
  • Rivka Nir, Open University of Israel (Israel) – in charge for Israeli Scholarship
  • Mika Pajunen, University of Helsinki (Finland, EU) – in charge for Finnish Scholarship
  • Stephane Saulnier, Newman University (Wichita, Kansas, USA) – in charge for French Scholarship
  • Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo Jose Cela University (Madrid, Spain, EU) – in charge for Spanish Scholarship
  • Carla Sulzbach, McGill University (Montreal, Canada) – in charge for Dutch Scholarship
  • Alexander Toepel, University of Tübingen (Germany, EU) – in charge for German Scholarship
  • Cecilia Wassen, University of Uppsala (Sweden, EU) – in charge for Swedish Scholarship
  • Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, Hungary, EU) – in charge for Hungarian Scholarship