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From 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism

4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins is an academic project of the Enoch Seminar, initiated and directed by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) with Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Loren T. Stuckenbruck (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA).

Visit the Community Portal, to see the List of Registered Authors; and the Current Events, to see most recent News from the field.

The Encyclopedia aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to scholarly research in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, i.e. from Ezekiel to the completion of the New Testament and the Mishnah. With more than 7,000 entries, "4 Enoch" provides a comprehensive Who's Who of the period, as well as Biographies of Scholars and Authors, and Abstracts of scholarly and fictional Works, authored from the 16th century to the present, all around the world.

For more details on the website, see About 4 Enoch. To register and contribute, go to Community Portal.

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Subjects (People) 1.2 Places 1.3 Texts 1.4 Works (4,300+ entries) 1.5 Scholars (1,200+ entries) 1.6 Authors (1100+ entries) 2 Breaking News

Contents

To visit the website, click (below) the corresponding categories or use the search command (on the left):

• Subjects (People / Places / Topics)
• Texts
• Works (Scholarship / Fiction / Languages / Works' chronology)
• Research tools (Journals / Learned societies / Publishers / Websites)
• Scholars (National Schools / People's generations)
• Authors (National Schools / People's generations)

Subjects (People)

• Adulteress / Albinus (Roman Governor) / Alexander Jannaeus / Alexander the Great / Ambivulus (Roman Governor) / Ananus ben Ananus (High Priest) / Andrew (disciple of Jesus) / Annas (High Priest) / Antigonus / Antiochus IV Epiphanes / Antipater / Antipater II (son of Herod the Great) / Apocalypticism / Aristobulus / Aristobulus / Aristobulus of Paneas / Arses / Artaxerses I (Persian King) / Artaxerses II (Persian King) / Artaxerses III (Persian King) / Augustus (Roman Emperor)

• Babylonian Kings / Bar Kokhba / Barabbas / Bardiya / Barnabas / Bartholomew / Baruch / Belshazzar / Ben-Hur / Berenice / Bethsaida

• Caiaphas (High Priest) / Caligula (Roman Emperor) / Cambyses II / Christian Origins / Christology / Claudius (Roman Emperor) / Coponius (Roman Governor) / Cumanus (Roman Governor) / Cyrus

• Daniel / Darius I (Persian King) / Darius II / Darius III / Davidic Kings / Dead Sea Scrolls / Domitian (Roman Emperor) / Drusilla

• Eliashib (High Priest) / Enoch / Eschatology / Essenes / Esther / Esther of Engaddi / Ezra

• Fadus (Roman Governor) / Felix (Roman Governor) / Festus (Roman Governor) / Florus (Roman Governor)

• Gamaliel / Gratus (Roman Governor)

• Hadrian (Roman Emperor) / Hasmoneans / Heliodorus / Herod Agrippa / Herod Agrippa II / Herod Antipas / Herod II / Herod the Great / Herodians / Herodias / Herodium / High Priest

• Jaddua (High Priest) / Jairus' daughter / James son of Zebedee / Jason (High Priest) / Jehoiachin / Jesus of Nazareth / Jewish War / Johanan / John / John Hyrcanus / John Hyrcanus II / John the Baptist / Joiada / Joiakim / Jonathan Maccabeus / Joseph of Arimathea / Joseph of Nazareth / Josephus / Joshua / Judas Iscariot / Judas Maccabeus / Judith

• Lazarus / Luke

• Maccabees / Malchus / Marcellus (Roman Governor) / Mariamne / Mark / Marullus (Roman Governor) / Mary Magdalene / Mary of Nazareth / Matthew / Menelaus (High Priest) / Messiah

• Nebuchadnezzar (Babylonian King) / Nehemiah / Nero (Roman Emperor) / Nerva (Roman Emperor) / Nicodemus / Noah

• Onias I (High Priest) / Onias II (High Priest) / Onias III (High Priest) / Onias IV (High Priest)

• Paul of Tarsus / Persian Kings / Peter / Pharisees / Phasael / Philip the Apostle / Philip the Evangelist / Philo / Pilate (Roman Governor) / Pilate's wife

• Roman Emperors / Roman Governors / Rufus (Roman Governor)

• Sadducees / Salome / Salome Alexandra / Samaritan Woman / Sheshbazzar / Simon I / Simon Maccabeus / Simon Magus / Simon of Cyrene / Sogdianus / Son of Man / Stephen

• Theudas / Thieves of Golgotha / Thomas / Tiberius (Roman Emperor) / Tiberius Alexander / Tigranes the Great / Titus (Roman Emperor) / Trajan (Roman Emperor) / Twelve Apostles

• Vespasian (Roman Emperor)

• Wandering Jew

• Xerses I / Xerses II

• Zadokites / Zealots / Zerubbabel

• more

Places

• Bethsaida

• Caesarea Maritima / Capernaum

• Herodium

• Machaerus / Masada

• Tiberias

Texts

• Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Book of Daniel / Book of Job /

• OT Apocrypha (Book of Judith / Book of Tobit / Wisdom of Solomon / etc.)

• OT Pseudepigrapha (2 Baruch /1 Enoch / 2 Enoch / 4 Ezra / Psalms of Solomon / Pseudo-Philo / etc.)

• Dead Sea Scrolls (Damascus Document / Temple Scroll / War Scroll / etc.)

• Other (Zenon papyri / Philo's works / Josephus's works)

• New Testament (Gospel of Matthew / Gospel of Mark / Gospel of Luke / Gospel of John / Acts of Apostles / etc.)

• Apostolic Fathers (Didache / etc.)

• NT Apocrypha (Gospel of Thomas / etc.)

• more

Works (4,300+ entries)

• Scholarship (Books / Book series / Edited volumes / Journals / Learned societies / Publishers / Websites)

• Fiction (Arch-fi / Art / Films / Novels / Operas / Oratorios / Plays / Poetry)

• Languages (English language / French language / German language / Italian language / Spanish language / more)

• Works' chronology
• Bestsellers / International Bestsellers

Scholars (1,200+ entries)

• Area of Specialization (Biblical Studies / Second Temple Studies / Qumran Studies / Philonic Studies / Josephus Studies / New Testament Studies / Historical Jesus Studies / Pauline Studies / Christian Studies / Judaic Studies / Classical Studies / Archaeology)

• National Schools (American Scholarship / British Scholarship / French Scholarship / German Scholarship / Italian Scholarship / Spanish Scholarship / more)

• Religious Schools (Jewish Scholarship / Catholic Scholarship / Protestant Scholarship / Muslim Scholarship)

• Women / Women's Studies / Women's Scholarship

• People's generations

Authors (1100+ entries)

• Area of Specialization (Artists / Composers / Novelists / Film directors / Playwrights)

• National Schools (American Fiction / British Fiction / French Fiction / German Fiction / Italian Fiction / Spanish Fiction / more)

• Religious Schools (Jewish Fiction / Catholic Fiction / Protestant Fiction / Muslim Fiction)

• Women / Women's Studies / Women's Fiction / Women's Art / Women's Cinema / Women's Literature / Women's Theatre

• People's generations

The project is supported by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Michigan and by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies.

Breaking News

• Israeli archaeologist and co-director of the Enoch Seminar Hanan Eshel (1958-2010) passed away on April 8, 2010.
• American historian Ellis Rivkin (1918-2010) passed away on April 7, 2010, and American-Israeli scholar Moshe Greenberg (1928-2010) on May 15, 2010.