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- Title: Historical-Allusional Dating and the Similitudes of Enoch (Critical Essay)
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
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In 1909, Leon Gry entitled one of his series of articles on the Similitudes of Enoch with the seemingly simple question: "Quand furent composees les Paraboles d'Henoch?" (1) In the century since, despite the proliferation of theories, this question has remained largely unanswered, at least with any certainty in the matter. It is perhaps therefore fitting at the centenary of the publication of the first article to deal solely with this enigma to review and reassess the status quaestionis on the dating of the Similitudes of Enoch. (2) In the following, I shall attend to this task through a critical reevaluation of the historically dominant hypothesis, probing its weaknesses and offering alternative renderings of some of its commonly accepted tenets. Too many unknown variables and contradictory data exist, rendering the purported communis opinio on the dating of the Similitudes of Enoch an incomplete and unproven equation. I. THE SCHOLARLY CONSENSUS