Decades ago, scholars like Michael Stone pointed out ways that the intellectual milieu of the Aramaic Enoch literature was Mesopotamian. The question, as scholars like Mladen Popovic emphasize, has always been exactly who shared what with whom, how.
In recent years scholars have been getting more specific about who was writing what, when in the Babylonian and Second Temple periods.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Resources on Judaism in ancient Babylonia
SETH SANDERS: The Republic of Letters in the Babylonian and Second Temple Periods.
