Aramaic Scribal Culture and Babylonian Influence in Second Temple Judaism
Explore Seth Sanders’s case that Aramaic scribal culture, not simple borrowing, shaped Second Temple Jewish texts like Enoch and Aramaic Levi.
Did the Watchers Bring Sexual Desire to Humanity? Rivka Nir’s Argument Reviewed
Rivka Nir argues that the Watchers introduced corrupt sexual desire. This review tests her case across 1 Enoch, Qumran, and the New Testament.
Doedens’s Case for a Later Syriac Development of the Sethite Reading
When did the Sethite reading of Genesis 6 emerge? Doedens traces its earliest evidence through Julius Africanus, Syriac writers, and Athanasius.
Cory Anderson on Jude’s Use of 1 Enoch as Inspired Authority
Cory Anderson argues Jude likely viewed 1 Enoch as inspired and authoritative, reading it eschatologically and christologically.
