Categorization, Collection, and the Construction of Continuity: 1 Enoch and 3 Enoch in and beyond “Apocalypticism” and “Mysticism”1

Recent decades have seen an intensive reassessment of older scholarly categories within the discipline of Religious Studies, spurring a turn toward more microhistorical approaches in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity in particular. With an eye to the power and limits of scholarly practic...

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1. VerfasserIn: Reed, Annette Yoshiko 1973- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 29, Heft: 3, Seiten: 268-311
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Äthiopisches Henochbuch / Hebräisches Henochbuch, Sefer heikhalot / Materialität / Apokalyptik / Mystik / Anthologie / Kategorisierung
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
HB Altes Testament
NBQ Eschatologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Categorization apocalypticism mysticism material texts anthologies Enoch
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Zusammenfassung:Recent decades have seen an intensive reassessment of older scholarly categories within the discipline of Religious Studies, spurring a turn toward more microhistorical approaches in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity in particular. With an eye to the power and limits of scholarly practices of categorization, this article reflects upon the pairing of “Apocalypticism” and “Mysticism” in modern scholarship on premodern Judaism, focusing on two works commonly cited as exemplary of their connection—1 Enoch and 3 Enoch. Drawing insights from interdisciplinary research on the History of the Book/Material Texts, it experiments with situating scholarly acts of categorization in relation to other practices of constructing continuity, both ancient and modern. It highlights the potency of anthologies and related textual practices for naturalizing certain categories of comparison and certain trajectories of retrospective connection—for modern scholars no less than for ancient and medieval readers.
ISSN:1570-0682
Enthält:In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341391