The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary

by Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Publisher:

Mohr Siebeck

, 1997

Overview

The origin of the legendary Book of Giants has eluded scholars and paleographers for centuries. Did it originate with the Manichaeans in the sixth century? Or do its origins reach back to an age before Christ?

Loren T. Stuckenbruck explores the manuscripts found at Qumran, which attributes this mythical book to independent Jewish sources around the time of the Second Temple period. Stuckenbruck brings his expertise on 1 Enoch to the fragments of the Book of Giants, studying both the published and unpublished fragments, giving this study a wide scope. Hoping to shed light on the Book of Giants as an early Jewish document, Stuckenbruck demonstrates that this writing is to be taken seriously in its own right.

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Key Features

• Explores the manuscripts found at Qumran
• Brings expertise on 1 Enoch to the fragments of the Book of Giants
• Sheds light on the Book of Giants as an early Jewish document

Product Details

• Title: The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary
• Author: Loren T. Stuckenbruck
• Series: Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum
• Volume: 63
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 290
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Book of giants › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Manichaeism › History--Sources; Dead Sea Scrolls
• ISBNs: 3161467205, 9783161467202
• Resource ID: LLS:BKGNTSQMRNTXTST
• Resource Type: Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-26T23:08:58Z

About Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Loren T. Stuckenbruck is the Richard Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his BA from Milligan College, and his MDiv and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. Before working at Princeton, he taught for 17 years in Europe, first at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and then in the department of theology and religion at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He has lectured widely throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

His areas of interest include the reception of Jewish traditions in the New Testament, early Jewish wisdom and apocalyptic thought, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Semitic languages, theological anthropology, and the problem of evil. He teaches courses on Second Temple Judaism, early Christian apocalyptic thought, Jesus in the Gospel traditions, the Book of Revelation, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Pauline theology. He is chief editor of Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature, a senior editor of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, and has been an editorial board member for the Journal of Biblical Literature, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, and the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Ordained in the independent Christian Churches, Stuckenbruck is interested in interfaith dialogue and in interdisciplinary work between theological disciplines and the social and natural sciences.