Author: Stuckenbruck, Loren T.

Source: Dead Sea Discoveries, Volume 17, Number 3, 2010 , pp. 387-417(31)

Publisher: BRILL

Abstract:

To the extent that a writing openly presents itself as the result of authorial activity, discussions of genre cannot dispense with the question of how, formally, communication occurs. Taking the Epistle of Enoch and Apocalypse of Weeks in 1 Enochas the points of departure, the present essay attempts to show that a discussion of what a document declares about its own writtenness opens up a way of understanding it in comparison to other documents that do the same along analogous lines, whether sapiential or apocalyptic.

Keywords: Epistle of Enoch; Apocalypse of Weeks; heavenly tablets; prophecy; authorized interpretation; reception of tradition; “pseudepigraphy”; genre; Enoch

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851710X513593

Affiliations: 1: Princeton Theological Seminary, Email: loren.stuckenbruck@ptsem.edu

Publication date: 2010-09-01

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