[First posted inwards spataculartreasures 23 Nov 2009. Updated xx October, 2019]
4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, in addition to Christian in addition to Islamic Origin
4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism in addition to Christian Origins is an online query tool for the report of Second Temple Judaism in addition to Christian Origins, promoted past times the Enoch Seminar in addition to edited past times Gabriele Boccaccini.
Overview
Only gradually in addition to non without pain, the land of Second Temple Judaism in addition to Christian Origins has emerged inwards modern times every bit an autonomous land of research. In the past times the major obstruction was the intrusion of canonical in addition to religious boundaries; today the land suffers from an unprecedented explosion of studies that results inwards a growing fragmentation into sub-areas of specialization. Since it has move virtually impossible to master copy the entire field, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than urgent are the circulation of ideas, the sharing of information, in addition to the mutual listening to each other.
The Enoch Seminar were born amongst the finish of providing a mutual forum to all specialists of the field. Now a novel tool is added – iv Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. At the 2009 Enoch Seminar inwards Naples, the General Assembly recommended the creation of an online tool that would heighten the scholarship of the Seminar participants every bit good every bit aide scholars of Second Temple Judaism throughout the world. Gabriele Boccaccini, the Chairperson of the Seminar, agreed to contribute xx years of his operate on the history of query inwards the land of Second Temple Judaism, which had already produced inwards 1992 a printed bibliography – Portraits of Middle Judaism inwards Scholarship in addition to Arts (1992 Boccaccini), book. Boccaccini’s vast bibliographies, database, in addition to personal notes encompassing scholarship in addition to the arts contain the inwardness of iv Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism.
The advert 4 Enoch was chosen every bit a tribute to the ancient patriarch who has move the symbol of our mutual finish to tear downward the canonical, linguistic in addition to religious walls of separation that inwards the past times accept largely divided our land of research. The want is to furnish mutual ground for scholars all unopen to the globe to portion the results of their query in addition to nous to each other in addition to to the voices from the past times in addition to arrive easier to specialists in addition to students to navigate inwards a land that is becoming to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than complex in addition to fragmented inwards dissimilar subfields of specialization.
iv Enoch offers a comprehensive introduction to scholarly query inwards Second Temple Judaism in addition to Christian Origins, get-go amongst the Babylonian Exile inwards 586 BCE to the Bar-Kokhba Revolt inwards 135 CE. It includes biographies of scholars, every bit good every bit abstracts of scholarly industrial plant inwards the land of Second Temple Judaism, from the early on 16th century to the present. The Encyclopedia also includes fictional cloth (art, literature, music, cinema). As the fertile soil for both Christianity in addition to the rabbinic period, Second Temple Judaism has inspired non solely scholars merely also artists, whose creations accept profoundly affected our agreement of the period. iv Enoch is the solely online tool to address the vital connection betwixt scholarship in addition to the arts, whether the arts anticipate, interact with, or stalk from developments inwards the academic community.
Spanning 500 years of query in addition to creativity, iv Enoch covers everything from Contexta populi Iudaici historia (1548 Eber), book to Beyond the Qumran Community (2010 Collins), book, in addition to from Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (1512 Raphael), art to The Handmaid in addition to the Carpenter (2006 Berg), novel. Although iv Enoch is nevertheless inwards its nascent stage, the finish of its Editors is to practice the most comprehensive history of query tool available to the scholars who contain the land of Second Temple Judaism in addition to Christian Origins.
The Editors of iv Enoch are committed to removing the canonical, linguistic in addition to religious walls of separation that accept divided scholars of Second Temple Judaism for then long. The tool itself is decidedly historical in addition to secular inwards orientation; it has no canonical, confessional, religious or denominational preferences. It invites scholars from every province in addition to tradition to participate freely in addition to to practice goodness from its bibliographic resources. It is aptly named afterward the ancient patriarch in addition to patron saint of the Enoch Seminar, whose 3 ancient books brought together traditions shared past times both Christians in addition to Jews.
By summarizing the vast literature in addition to synthesizing it for the scholarly community, iv Enoch provides the chance for scholars unopen to the globe to portion the results of their query amongst their colleagues in addition to anyone else who is interested inwards Second Temple Judaism in addition to Christian Origins. iv Enoch resurrects voices from past times centuries, introducing the giants of a past times historic menses to each novel generation of scholars; in addition to provides a glimpse to the operate of national schools ofttimes neglected or fifty-fifty virtually unknown due to linguistic barriers. Specialists in addition to students volition last allowed to navigate a land that is increasingly complex in addition to fragmented into sub-fields of specialization. The finish is to create to a greater extent than substantial scholarship in addition to a greater abide by for our mutual heritage. iv Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia volition evolve inwards 3 phases. The get-go stage of iv Enoch volition last the creation of thousands of entries for those scholars, authors in addition to artists who accept contributed to our agreement of the menses or addressed the menses inwards some meaning way. The focus during the firstly stage is on history of query in addition to secondary scholarship. The mo stage volition focus to a greater extent than on primary sources in addition to volition include entries on the ancient documents of Second Temple Judaism, historical in addition to fictional characters, historical events, archaeological sites, epigraphic data, numismatics in addition to cultural phenomena. The terminal stage volition include scholarly articles written past times electrical current Second Temple specialists.
iv Enoch is freely opened upwardly to the participation of scholars from unopen to the world. There are already to a greater extent than than lx registered authors from half dozen continents making contributions to its growing database. In the close futurity the iv Enoch squad volition appoint additional associate editors for major linguistic groups every bit good every bit major subjects of research. The selection of the wiki programme reflects iv Enoch’s want for a genuinely collective venture in addition to for contributions from scholars in addition to graduate students from unopen to the globe. It also allows the registered authors to add together abstracts, reviews, in addition to interacting biographical in addition to scholarly notes non constitute inwards bibliographical databases, such every bit the Bibliographie bibliques informatisée de Lausanne (BiBIL) or WorldCat.
There is a terminal betoken that the Editors want to brand inwards this historic menses that is increasingly dominated past times the presence of the Web. We sometimes complain (and non without reason) nigh the depression character in addition to unreliability of some rattling pop computerized tools, which nonetheless our students in addition to nosotros must job every day. Our challenge is to demonstrate that a collective operate tin last accomplished without compromising its integrity in addition to high standards. On the contrary, the sharing of private wisdom from scholars all unopen to the globe tin solely effect inwards mutual enrichment in addition to lay the foundation for novel accomplishments inwards our field.
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