Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Wisdom Stance of Enoch's Redactor

The Wisdom Stance of Enoch's Redactor THE WISDOM STANCE OF ENOCH'S REDACTOR BY ROBERT A. COUGHENOUR Holland, Michigan In a 1975 article Benedikt OTZErr recognized the need for and called for investigations of the relation of wisdom to certain groups of pseudepigraphic literature' ). This paper presents a discussion of the redaction of I Enoch in relation to its wisdom elements and hopes to contribute to the discussions now going on in the field. All who have studied the Book of Enoch recognize its composite nature. M. RIST, for example, views this fact in a nearly despairing way: It is obvious that Enoch is a complex book lacking unity of treatment and of concepts. Consequently, it is exceedingly difficult, if not im- possible, to state the actual views of the compiler2). With all necessary reserve and with proper readiness to revise my opinion, I propose that the key to the compilation is the wisdom stance of its final editor. While this brief article does not purport to present a redaction history of the book, since after all not all its elements are treated, nor all its forms traced, I maintain that one may still be reasonably confident of the final editor's position. In addition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

The Wisdom Stance of Enoch's Redactor

Coughenour, Robert A.
Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 13 (1-2): 47 – Jan 1, 1982
Download PDF
9 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/the-wisdom-stance-of-enoch-s-redactor-DynJwqgj4u

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2212
eISSN
1570-0631
DOI
10.1163/157006382X00035
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

THE WISDOM STANCE OF ENOCH'S REDACTOR BY ROBERT A. COUGHENOUR Holland, Michigan In a 1975 article Benedikt OTZErr recognized the need for and called for investigations of the relation of wisdom to certain groups of pseudepigraphic literature' ). This paper presents a discussion of the redaction of I Enoch in relation to its wisdom elements and hopes to contribute to the discussions now going on in the field. All who have studied the Book of Enoch recognize its composite nature. M. RIST, for example, views this fact in a nearly despairing way: It is obvious that Enoch is a complex book lacking unity of treatment and of concepts. Consequently, it is exceedingly difficult, if not im- possible, to state the actual views of the compiler2). With all necessary reserve and with proper readiness to revise my opinion, I propose that the key to the compilation is the wisdom stance of its final editor. While this brief article does not purport to present a redaction history of the book, since after all not all its elements are treated, nor all its forms traced, I maintain that one may still be reasonably confident of the final editor's position. In addition

Journal

Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1982

There are no references for this article.