Der Workshop findet in englischer Sprache statt. Deshalb hier die Detailinfos auf Englisch:
The purpose of the workshop is to assemble a small select group of specialist scholarship on the Ethiopic "Book of Enoch" to explore advances in both content and method in the study of a tradition that uniquely functions in the Horn of Africa as part of „the Bible“ among both Orthodox Christians and Beta Israel Jews. Among the languages in which the book is preserved (especially Aramaic, Greek, and Ethiopic), the Ethiopic version preserves the tradition in its most complete form.
The conference shall focus on the "Book of Watchers" on the basis of the edition of Loren Stuckenbruck and Ted Erho being published by Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen). It will include short papers by those who have familiarity with Aramaic, Greek, and Ethiopic versions of the text and who will each have received the new edition in advance.
Background: Since 2011 nearly 100 of previously unstudied and (in the West) unknown manuscripts and witnesses for the ancient Ethiopic „Book of Enoch“ (1 Enoch) have come to light. Whereas among the some 26 manuscripts used, the edition of R. H. Charles (1906) made use of 7 witnesses to the early recension (Eth I) in producing his critical text for 1 Enoch, the number has now risen to over 50, with the most significant evidence among them.
The new edition prepared by Loren Stuckenbruck and Ted Erho draws on all the now available Eth I materials, while choosing some mostly unstudied manuscripts from the later standardizing recension (Eth II) for analysis. The analysis of Eth I and Eth II materials has, respectively, taken shape through a deployment of different methods: neo-Lachmann text criticism (for Eth I, where possible through comparison with extant Greek and Aramaic fragmentary evidence) and collation around one manuscript (for Eth II, with the „Haile Selassie“ commissioned manuscript IES 77 as the base text).