UPDATE ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENOCH SEMINAR:

Gabriele Boccaccini e-mails:

Our intention was to post this material on the web, but the quality of the papers we have received is so high that we decided that they are worth publishing. I am glad to inform you that we have reached an agreement to publish the volume with Eerdmans. It will be a perfect companion to the volume published by Zamorani with the material from the First Enoch Seminar.

Title:

G. Boccaccini (with J.H. Ellens and J. Waddell), ed., Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection

Table of Contents

Introduction

ch.1 - "Daniel and Dream Visions"
Articles by Armin Lange, Matthias Henze, Matthias Albani, Helge Kvanvig, Stefan Beyerle, Patrick Tiller, James Davila, and Charlotte Hempel.
With a Response by John J. Collins.

ch. 2 - "Enoch and Jubilees"
Articles by Lawrence Shiffman, Helge Kvanvig, Hanan Eshel, Martha Himmelfarb, Jacques Van Ruiten, Jeff Anderson, Michael Daise, Annette Reed, Eibert Tigchelaar, Eric Larson, Liliana Rosso-Ubigli, and Henry Rietz.
With a Response by James VanderKam.

ch. 3 - "The Apocalypse of Weeks"
Articles by Klaus Koch, Michael Knibb, Ithamar Gruenwald, Timothy Lim, Andrea Bedenbender, Eibert Tigchelaar, and Matthias Henze.
With a Response by George W.E. Nickelsburg.

ch. 4 - "The Groningen Hypothesis Revisited"
Articles by Charlotte Hempel, Lester Grabbe, Albert Bamgartner, Benjamin Wright, Emile Puech, Torleif Elgvin, Shemaryahu Talmon, Timothy Lim, and Mark Elliot.
With a Response by Florentino Garcia Martinez

ch. 5 - "The Enochic-Essene Hypothesis Revisited"
Articles by David Suter, John Reeves, Corrado Martone, Philip Davies, James Davila, Paolo Sacchi, Torleif Elgvin, Jeff Anderson, Pierluigi Piovanelli, and Claudio Gianotto.
With a Response by Gabriele Boccaccini

Summary and Conclusion

This, of course, is very good news for the Seminar participants, since a print publication is worth more in the academic world than publication online. Still, I'm sure I'm not alone in looking forward to the day when such things can be published online - at much less expense and with a shorter time lag - and be considered as significant a publication as one with a major print publisher. It's too bad that these proceedings won't be online after all, but at least Eerdmans books are quite reasonably priced.

Thanks, Gabriele, for arranging this.