Soren, Boccaccini's approach is worth discussing, and to my knowledge has not been worked to death. The one question might be the appropriate venue for the discussion. I'm in the midst of reading his more recent book on the sources of Rabbinic Judaism and have yet to reach a conclusion about what the Zadokite/Enochic distinction. What is interesting to me at the moment, however, is his methodological parallel in the recent work between the discussion of the history of philosophy and the discussion of the history of Judaism.
David Suter Saint Martin's College > -----Original Message----- > From: Søren Holst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:27 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: orion-list Boccaccini: "Beyond Essene Hypothesis"? > > > I was wondering whether anybody on the list has insights to > offer regarding > Gabriele Boccaccini's book, Beyond the Essene Hypothesis? Apart from > strictly scroll related issues, the underlying idea of 2nd > temple judaism > containg two main strands describable as Zadokite and Enochic > respectively > sounds intriguing. > > (I apologize if the subject has been flogged to death before > -- I may have > missed the discussion for the ironic reason of being in > Jerusalem when the > book came out, and not reading Orion e-mail regularly. And > even worse: I > haven't read the book, as the only copy in Denmark is found > at the OTHER > theology department, opposite end of the country). > For private reply, e-mail to "Suter, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from Orion, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: "unsubscribe Orion." Archives are on the Orion Web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. (PLEASE REMOVE THIS TRAILOR BEFORE REPLYING TO THE MESSAGE)
