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The Enochic Pentateuch and the Date of the Similitudes

1977; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 70; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0017816000017624

1475-4517

Jonas C. Greenfield, Michael E. Stone,

Historical and Linguistic Studies

In a recent, extensive article in this Journal, J. T. Milik made public some of the conclusions which he had drawn from his studies of the Qumran Enoch fragments, conclusions which have serious implications for the history of Jewish literature in the last centuries before the destruction of the Temple. Two of Milik's conclusions about the Enochic literature will be examined here: first, that there was at Qumran an Enochic Pentateuch, and second, that the Similitudes of Enoch (chaps. 37-71 of the Ethiopic Enoch book) are a late, Christian composition.