A new reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch
Subtitle: "All nations shall be blessed"
By: with a new translation and commentary By Daniel C. Olson
Contributors: Olson, Daniel C. (Daniel Carl), 1955- translator
Series: Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha -- v. 24; Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha -- v. 24.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004245303; 9789004247789
Subjects: Bible; Animals; Jews; Ethiopic book of Enoch LXXXV-XC; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; History of Biblical events; Symbolic aspects; Judaism; Apocalyptic literature; History
Other titles: Ethiopic book of Enoch LXXXV-XC. English. Olson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Looking at the future : the scope and the focus of the allegory; title: Looking at the past : the uses of history in the allegory; title: Looking at the present : the allegory in its own historical context; title: The text of the Animal apocalypse; title: Identifications of the wild animals in the Animal apocalypse; title: Genesis through Kings (1 Enoch 85:2-89:58) : translation and commentary; title: Exile to the eschaton (1 Enoch 89:59-90:42) : translation and commentary; title: The Animal apocalypse in dialogue; title: Appendix. Allusions to the Animal apocalypse in the Epistle of Barnabas and the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah.