If there is an origin myth for modern scholarship on Second Temple Judaism, one of its protagonists is no doubt the Scottish adventurer James Bruce (1730–1794), widely celebrated as the man who “rediscovered” 1 Enoch. The manuscripts that he brought from Ethiopia to Europe were key catalysts for academic interest in the Judaism of this so-called “intertestamental” period ...I noted the publication of Rediscovering Enoch here, with comment.
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