Ellens J. Harold Oliver Isaac W. von Ehrenkrook Jason - Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini

Wisdom Poured Out Like Water

Deuterocanonical and Cognate
Literature Studies

Edited by

Friedrich V. Reiterer, Beate Ego, Tobias Nicklas,
and Kristin de Troyer

Volume 38

ISBN 978-3-11-059588-8

e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-059671-7

e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-059379-2

ISSN 1865-1666

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Boccaccini, Gabriele, 1958- honouree. | Ellens, J. Harold, 1932-editor.

Title: Wisdom poured out like water : studies on Jewish and Christian antiquity in honor of Gabriele Boccaccini / edited by J. Harold Ellens, Isaac W. Oliver, Jason von Ehrenkrook, James Waddell, Jason M. Zurawski.

Description: 1 [edition]. | Boston : De Gruyter, 2018. | Series: Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; Volume 38 | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018023455 (print) | LCCN 2018029549 (ebook) | ISBN 9783110596717 (electronic Portable Document Format (pdf) | ISBN 9783110595888 (print : alk. paper) | ISBN 9783110593792 (e-book epub) | ISBN 9783110596717 (e-book pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Jewish literature. | Hebrew literature. | Apocalyptic literature. | Christian literature, Early. | Ethiopic book of Enoch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Classification: LCC BS511.3 (ebook) | LCC BS511.3 .W6627 2018 (print) | DDC 229/.9106--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023455

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Gabriele Boccaccini was born in Florence, Italy, on March 24, 1958 to Walter Boccaccini, an opera stage director and then general manager of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Maria Adelaide Ghinozzi, a teacher who graduated in philosophy under Professor Eugenio Garin at the University of Florence. He studied classical studies at the Liceo Dante Alighieri in Florence (19711976), and enrolled as a student at the University of Florence.

After completing his courses, Boccaccini served two years in the civil corps of the Italian Army, married musicologist Aloma Bardi in 1981, and earned his Laurea (1983) in Early Christianity from the University of Florence, Italy, under the mentorship of Ancient Philosophy Professor Francesco Adorno. He then taught three years as a high school professor at the Liceo Linguistico in Florence, before entering the PhD program at the University of Turin to work with Professor Paolo Sacchi. He successfully completed his PhD in Judaic Studies in 1991.

In the Winter of 1989 and 1990, Boccaccini was Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary under the mentorship of Professor James H. Charlesworth. In the Fall of 1992 he joined the Faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan, initially as Adjunct Professor in the PhD program directed by Professor Jarl Fossum. He became Assistant Professor in 1999 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2002. In 2005 he was promoted to Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins in the Department of Near Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

In 2001 Boccaccini founded the Enoch Seminar and in 2006 he launched the Enoch Graduate Seminar. He later added the Nangeroni Meetings (2012) and the Enoch Colloquia (2017) to the expanding list of academic conferences organized under the auspices of the Enoch Seminar. These series of international meetings have attracted hundreds of scholars from all around the world in the common pursuit of a deeper understanding of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins.

Boccaccini has authored and edited numerous articles and books that have contributed enormously to the field of research on Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, including Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought, 300 BCE to 200 CE (Fortress Press, 1991), Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism (Eerdmans, 1998), and Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel (Eerdmans, 1998). His scholarship has been translated into several languages, including German, Portuguese, and Hungarian.

In addition to his prolific scholarship, Boccaccini has been recognized for his involvement in and contribution to the Italian-American community. In March 2012, he became an American citizen, and in 2018 he was awarded the title of Cavaliere dellOrdine della Stella dItalia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) by Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, for his contribution to the preservation and promotion of national prestige abroad.

The editors thank the following persons from De Gruyter who made this publication possible: Albrecht Dhnert, editorial director of Theology and Religion, for guiding us through this project, as well as the editors of the Deuteroncanonical and Cognate Literature series, in particular Tobias Nicklas for his attentive support. We are also grateful for the assistance of Aaron Sanborn-Overby, project editor at De Gruyter in Theology and Religion, for his diligent work in preparing this manuscript for production.

Finally, we wish to remember one of the editors for this Festschrift, J. Harold Ellens, who passed away on April 13, 2018, as the manuscript for this book was about to be set in typing. Until his very last days, Ellens remained involved in this project on behalf of his mentor and friend Gabriele Boccaccini with whom he worked for more than 25 years on common scholarly endeavors. Ellens was one of the founding members of the Enoch Seminar, serving as the secretary for the first decade and then as the president of the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies. He was a prolific scholar who published numerous works in early Judaism and Christianity, the psychology of religion, and theology. Ellens will be missed by his family, friends, colleagues, and all who knew him.