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The Influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament

Explore how 1 Enoch likely shaped the language, imagery, and theology of the New Testament, from the Gospels' Son of Man to Revelation's final judgmen...

The Primordial History: Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East

Explore key narratives in Genesis 1–11, from creation to Babel, compared with their Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Sumerian counterparts to reveal how Is...

Melammu: Divine Radiance in the Ancient Near East and Biblical Traditions

Explore how Melammu, the awe-inspiring radiance of gods and kings in ancient Mesopotamia, originated in the overwhelming brightness of the sun and sta...

Some Differences Between the Septuagint and Masoretic Traditions

Explore how the two most influential text traditions, the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text, each shaped, expanded, and condensed their inherited text...

The Divine Council and the Development of Bureaucracy

Explore how the biblical divine council evolved from an informal council of gods into a structured divine administration, and how its evolution follow...

The Solar and Lunar Calendar Debate

Explore how communities debated whether the sun or the moon should govern the festival year, from the solar calendar of 1 Enoch and Jubilees through t...

King Josiah at the Center of Israel's History

Explore how Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings use distinct Deuteronomic language and literary structure that converges on Josiah's reform, suggesting...

The World Tree in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Traditions

Explore how the image of a great tree at the center of the world was inherited from Mesopotamian myth into the Hebrew Bible and reshaped by later Jewi...

From the Tablet of Destinies to the Book of Life

Explore how the Mesopotamian idea of divine tablets that tracked everyone's destiny evolved through the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature,...

Protecting Widows, Orphans, and the Poor

Explore how the social obligation to protect the most vulnerable members of society evolved from ancient Near Eastern culture into the Hebrew Bible, p...

Highlighted Texts

Hebrew Bible

Psalm 86:8 / Revelation 15:4 Proverbs 1:6 / Sirach 39:2 Proverbs 1:6 / Wisdom of Solomon 8:8

Septuagint

LXX Psalm 77:2 / Psalm 78:2 LXX Psalm 77:2 / Matthew 13:35

Deuterocanon

Sirach 23:7 / James 3:9 Sirach 39:2 / Proverbs 1:6

Pseudepigrapha

1 Enoch 1:2 / Numbers 24:3

Targum

Neofiti Exodus 22:30 / Matthew 15:27 Neofiti Exodus 22:30 / Exodus 22:31

New Testament

Mark 4:11 / Jonathan Isaiah 6:9 Matthew 13:3 / 4 Ezra 8:41 Matthew 13:35 / LXX Psalm 77:2 Matthew 13:13 / Chagigah 12b Matthew 13:31 / Ketubot 111b Matthew 13:8 / Seneca Letters from a Stoic 38 Matthew 13:31 / Ezekiel 17:23 Luke 12:19 / Sirach 11:19 Luke 12:13 / James 4:13 Luke 12:16 / 1 Enoch 97:8

Early Christian

Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 2.13 / Wisdom of Solomon 7:22

Rabbinic

Shabbat 153a / Matthew 22:2 Sotah 22b / Matthew 23:5

Matching Reference Citations

Hebrew Bible

Isaiah 6:9 / Jonathan Isaiah 6:9 Isaiah 66:6 / 2 Thessalonians 1:6 Proverbs 25:6 / Luke 14:10 Psalm 110:1 / Matthew 25:33 Genesis 48:14 / Matthew 25:33 Numbers 24:3 / 1 Enoch 1:2 Ezekiel 34:11 / Matthew 18:12 Psalm 2:2 / 1 Enoch 48:10 Daniel 12:3 / Wisdom of Solomon 3:7 Ezekiel 3:22 / Acts 9:6 Psalm 135:7 / 1 Enoch 17:3 Psalm 135:7 / 1 Enoch 18:1 Jeremiah 17:11 / Sirach 11:19 Genesis 1:26 / Sirach 17:3 Daniel 12:3 / Matthew 13:43 Ezekiel 17:23 / Matthew 13:31 Exodus 32:32 / 1 Enoch 108:3 Isaiah 5:1 / Matthew 21:33 2 Kings 9:13 / Matthew 21:8 Proverbs 1:6 / Wisdom of Solomon 8:8 Proverbs 1:6 / Sirach 39:2 Psalm 69:29 / 1 Enoch 108:3 Isaiah 30:26 / 1 Enoch 72:37 2 Kings 1:12 / Revelation 20:9 Joel 3:13 / Revelation 14:18 Joshua 2:1 / James 2:25 Isaiah 11:4 / 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Isaiah 22:13 / 1 Corinthians 15:32 Psalm 118:22 / Targum Psalm 118:22 Psalm 118:22 / Matthew 21:42 / Targum Psalm 118:22 Isaiah 57:2 / Wisdom of Solomon 3:3 Exodus 32:32 / Revelation 3:5 Daniel 7:10 / Revelation 5:11 Amos 3:7 / Revelation 10:7 Isaiah 25:8 / Revelation 21:4 Isaiah 24:23 / Jonathan Isaiah 24:23 Isaiah 66:2 / Acts 7:49 Leviticus 18:8 / Amos 2:7 Hosea 2:14 / Jeremiah 2:2 Deuteronomy 26:19 / Jeremiah 13:11 Genesis 9:16 / Isaiah 24:5 Psalm 19:14 / 1 Enoch 71:12 Exodus 12:29 / Judith 13:1 Exodus 12:30 / Judith 14:19 Psalm 49:16 / James 5:1 Genesis 33:4 / Luke 15:22 Jeremiah 51:16 / Psalm 135:7 Amos 3:5 / LXX Amos 3:5 Ecclesiastes 2:24 / 1 Enoch 98:11 Daniel 7:9 / 1 Enoch 46:1 Ezekiel 37:27 / 1 Enoch 45:4 Isaiah 1:3 / Jeremiah 8:7 Job 40:15 / 1 Enoch 60:7 Isaiah 60:21 / Matthew 15:13 Genesis 6:3 / Neofiti Genesis 6:3 Isaiah 52:1 / 1 Enoch 62:16 Isaiah 41:11 / 1 Enoch 63:11 Psalm 22:16 / LXX Psalms 21:17 Psalm 146:8 / LXX Psalms 145:8 Psalm 78:2 / LXX Psalm 77:2 Exodus 21:28 / Samaritan Exodus 21:28 Isaiah 49:7 / 1 Enoch 62:1 Jeremiah 51:16 / 1 Enoch 18:1 Genesis 9:11 / 1 Enoch 55:2 Genesis 8:22 / 1 Enoch 55:1 Genesis 6:6 / 1 Enoch 55:2 Daniel 7:9 / 1 Enoch 55:1 Isaiah 24:21 / 1 Enoch 54:2 Zechariah 14:2 / 1 Enoch 56:5 Psalm 18:49 / 1 Enoch 48:5 Isaiah 57:2 / Wisdom of Solomon 4:7 Amos 5:21 / Sirach 34:22 Genesis 12:13 / Genesis 26:7 Genesis 12:13 / Genesis 20:2 Leviticus 19:36 / Hosea 12:7 Hosea 9:3 / Ezekiel 4:13 Micah 1:4 / 1 Enoch 52:6 Psalm 104:26 / Isaiah 27:1 Genesis 15:19 / Jubilees 14:18 / Genesis Rabbah 44:23 Genesis 22:1 / Jubilees 17:16 / Sanhedrin 89b Genesis 22:1 / Jubilees 17:16 / Genesis Rabbah 55:4 Genesis 2:9 / Onkelos Genesis 2:9 Isaiah 34:4 / LXX Isaiah 34:4 Exodus 12:23 / 1 Corinthians 10:10 Exodus 14:7 / LXX Exodus 14:7 Exodus 10:28 / Esther 4:11 Leviticus 4:24 / Ezekiel 24:2 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Isaiah 8:19 Psalm 35:8 / 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Ancient Near East

KTU I.2 / Psalm 82:1 Great Hymn to the Aten / Habakkuk 3:3 Song of the Hoe / Genesis 1:6 Epic of Gilgamesh VI / Psalm 82:1 Epic of Gilgamesh VII / Psalm 82:1 KAI 26.iii / Psalm 82:1 Legend of Keret / Psalm 16:7 Surpu II / Matthew 25:35 Surpu III / Leviticus 5:17 Surpu III / Psalm 19:12 KTU 1.5 / Psalms 74:13

Septuagint

LXX Psalm 77:2 / Matthew 13:35 LXX Amos 3:5 / Matthew 10:29 LXX Deuteronomy 18:4 / Didache 13:3 LXX Isaiah 1:1 / 1 Enoch 37:1 LXX Deuteronomy 32:43 / Job 38:7 LXX Psalm 108:21 / Matthew 7:21 LXX Ecclesiastes 8:15 / Tobit 7:10

Dead Sea Scrolls

1QS 1 / John 12:36 1QS 11 / Matthew 10:29

Deuterocanon

Baruch 3:37 / John 1:14 Wisdom of Solomon 13:1 / Romans 1:20 Wisdom of Solomon 14:22 / Romans 1:24 Sirach 35:17 / Luke 18:3 Sirach 28:2 / Matthew 6:12 Sirach 28:1 / Matthew 18:23 Tobit 12:15 / 1 Enoch 9:3 Sirach 31:15 / Matthew 7:12 Sirach 48:24 / Matthew 5:4 Sirach 29:11 / Matthew 6:20 Sirach 14:8 / Matthew 6:23 Sirach 27:6 / Matthew 7:16 Sirach 13:17 / Matthew 10:16 Sirach 48:10 / Matthew 11:11 Sirach 40:15 / Matthew 13:3 Sirach 20:30 / Matthew 13:44 Sirach 35:22 / Matthew 16:27 Sirach 37:2 / Matthew 26:38 Sirach 7:29 / Didache 4:1 Wisdom of Solomon 3:8 / 1 Corinthians 6:2 Tobit 14:2 / Acts 10:2 Wisdom of Solomon 14:6 / Sirach 16:7 Sirach 34:10 / 4 Ezra 3:33 Sirach 3:30 / Tobit 12:9 Wisdom of Solomon 7:23 / Hebrews 4:12 Sirach 5:8 / Luke 16:9 Sirach 5:8 / 1 Enoch 63:10 Sirach 33:23 / Luke 15:12 Sirach 9:10 / Matthew 9:17 Tobit 6:6 / 1 Enoch 21:4

Pseudepigrapha

1 Enoch 97:8 / Luke 12:16 1 Enoch 38:2 / Matthew 26:24 1 Enoch 62:5 / Matthew 19:28 1 Enoch 51:2 / Luke 21:28 1 Enoch 54:5 / Matthew 25:41 1 Enoch 96:5 / Luke 12:20 1 Enoch 14:14 / 2 Corinthians 12:4 1 Enoch 48:4 / Luke 2:32 1 Enoch 62:2 / 2 Thessalonians 2:8 1 Enoch 39:11 / 1QH 1 Enoch 41:3 / 2 Enoch 5:1 1 Enoch 41:3 / 4 Ezra 5:37 1 Enoch 47:4 / Revelation 6:11 1 Enoch 14:20 / Revelation 5:11 1 Enoch 84:1 / 1 Timothy 2:8 1 Enoch 47:3 / Revelation 20:12 1 Enoch 48:1 / John 4:14 1 Enoch 62:3 / Revelation 6:15 1 Enoch 62:2 / Revelation 19:15 1 Enoch 62:2 / Revelation 1:16 1 Enoch 62:2 / Revelation 2:16 Psalms of Solomon 17:43 / Revelation 3:18 1 Enoch 98:16 / Luke 12:20 Testament of Judah 18 / 1 Timothy 6:10 Testament of Judah 19 / 1 Timothy 6:10 1 Enoch 6:2 / Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with Manes 32 1 Enoch 63:10 / Luke 16:9 Jubilees 23:30 / 2 Baruch 51:5 1 Enoch 62:8 / 1 Corinthians 15:42 1 Enoch 58:4 / Matthew 6:33 Testament of Gad 6:7 / Matthew 18:35 1 Enoch 2:1 / Sirach 16:26 1 Enoch 2:1 / Psalms of Solomon 18:10 1 Enoch 10:12 / Jubileees 5:10 1 Enoch 18:11 / 2 Peter 2:4 1 Enoch 61:5 / Apocalypse of Peter 1:12 1 Enoch 63:7 / Apocalypse of Peter 1:46

Targum

Targum Psalm 118:22 / Mark 11:9

New Testament

Romans 6:22 / Sifre Numbers 115 Mark 4:11 / Jonathan Isaiah 6:9 Matthew 7:24 / Pirkei Avot 3:17 Luke 14:17 / Pirkei Avot 3:16 Luke 3:1 / Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 19.5 Matthew 13:31 / Ketubot 111b Matthew 25:41 / Nedarim 40a Matthew 25:35 / Shabbat 127a Luke 15:8 / Song of Songs Rabbah 1:9 Luke 15:20 / Pesikta Rabbati 184 Luke 15:20 / Deuteronomy Rabbah 2:24 Galatians 3:24 / Genesis Rabbah 1 Matthew 21:41 / Jonathan Isaiah 5:5 Luke 16:19 / Jerusalem Chagigah 2.2.6 2 Corinthians 11:2 / Mishnah Taanit 4:8 Luke 11:47 / Lamentations Rabbah 4:13 Matthew 7:24 / Avot D'Rabbi Natan 24 Matthew 13:44 / Mekhilta d'Rabbi Ishmael 62:5 Matthew 20:1 / Genesis Rabbah 9:9 Matthew 13:44 / Leviticus Rabbah 5:4 Matthew 13:52 / Leviticus Rabbah 2:11 Matthew 22:2 / Shabbat 153a Acts 4:32 / Pirkei Avot 5:13 Luke 15:16 / Leviticus Rabbah 13:4 Hebrews 7:3 / Apocalypse of Abraham 17:10 Matthew 5:21 / Bava Metzia 58b Philippians 2:17 / 2 Timothy 4:6 Luke 16:26 / 4 Ezra 7:36 Matthew 9:37 / 4 Ezra 4:32 James 4:13 / Luke 12:13 Revelation 6:9 / 4 Ezra 4:35 Luke 4:23 / Genesis Rabbah 23:4 1 Corinthians 5:6 / Berakhot 17a Galatians 5:9 / Berakhot 17a Luke 6:36 / Pseudo Jonathan Leviticus 22:28 Matthew 21:43 / 4 Ezra 1:24 Matthew 5:22 / Bava Metzia 59a Matthew 7:3 / Kiddushin 70a Matthew 19:24 / Song of Songs Rabbah 5:2 Matthew 13:3 / 4 Ezra 8:41 Matthew 11:12 / Sifre Deuteronomy 49 Luke 6:27 / Berakhot 10a Luke 6:27 / Avot D'Rabbi Natan 23 Matthew 13:45 / Shabbat 119a Matthew 13:47 / Avodah Zarah 3b Luke 13:8 / Apocalypse of Peter 1:8 1 Peter 3:19 / Apocalypse of Peter 1:22

Early Christian

Didache 4:8 / Pirkei Avot 3:7

Classical

Seneca Letters from a Stoic 38 / Matthew 13:8 Philo On the Unchangeableness of God 1:91 / Matthew 13:44 Hierocles On Household Management / Mishnah Ketubot 5:5

Texts in Conversation

Hebrew Bible

Ezekiel 17:23 / Matthew 13:31 Proverbs 25:6 / Luke 14:10 Proverbs 1:6 / Wisdom of Solomon 8:8 Proverbs 1:6 / Sirach 39:2 Numbers 24:3 / 1 Enoch 1:2 Genesis 18:6 / Matthew 13:33 Psalm 78:2 / LXX Psalm 77:2 Genesis 33:4 / Luke 15:22 Isaiah 5:1 / Matthew 21:33 Lamentations 2:11 / 1 Maccabees 2:9 Psalm 118:22 / Matthew 21:42 / Targum Psalm 118:22

Septuagint

LXX Psalm 77:2 / Matthew 13:35

Dead Sea Scrolls

1QS 1 / Luke 16:8

Deuterocanon

Sirach 7:32 / Matthew 25:35 Sirach 40:15 / Matthew 13:3 Sirach 20:30 / Matthew 13:44 Sirach 28:1 / Matthew 18:23 Sirach 11:19 / Luke 12:19 Tobit 2:2 / Luke 14:13 Sirach 33:23 / Luke 15:12

Pseudepigrapha

1 Enoch 97:8 / Luke 12:16 Psalms of Solomon 5:9 / Genesis Rabbah 76 1 Enoch 22:9 / Luke 16:26

New Testament

Matthew 7:24 / Pirkei Avot 3:17 Matthew 22:2 / Shabbat 153a James 4:13 / Luke 12:13 Matthew 7:24 / Avot D'Rabbi Natan 24 Romans 6:22 / Sifre Numbers 115 Mark 4:11 / Jonathan Isaiah 6:9 Matthew 20:16 / Ruth Rabbah 3 Matthew 13:31 / Ketubot 111b Luke 15:8 / Song of Songs Rabbah 1:9 Luke 15:20 / Pesikta Rabbati 184 Luke 15:20 / Deuteronomy Rabbah 2:24 Matthew 13:3 / 4 Ezra 8:41 Matthew 22:14 / 4 Ezra 8:3 Matthew 21:41 / Jonathan Isaiah 5:5 Luke 16:19 / Jerusalem Chagigah 2.2.6 Luke 14:11 / Leviticus Rabbah 1:5 Luke 15:4 / Exodus Rabbah 2:2 Matthew 13:44 / Mekhilta d'Rabbi Ishmael 62:5 Matthew 20:1 / Genesis Rabbah 9:9 Matthew 13:44 / Leviticus Rabbah 5:4 Matthew 22:12 / Apocalypse of Abraham 13:12 Matthew 13:45 / Shabbat 119a Luke 16:26 / 4 Ezra 7:36 Matthew 13:13 / Chagigah 12b Luke 15:16 / Leviticus Rabbah 13:4 Matthew 20:9 / Jerusalem Berakhot 2.8 Luke 13:8 / Apocalypse of Peter 1:8

Classical

Seneca Letters from a Stoic 38 / Matthew 13:8 Lucian Voyage to the Lower World 1 / Luke 16:19 Philo On the Unchangeableness of God 1:91 / Matthew 13:44

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Reference Library

A Rabbi Looks at Jesus’ Parables

Stern, Frank • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • 2006

A Word Fitly Spoken: Context, Transmission, and Adoption of the Parables of Jesus

Culbertson, Philip J. • State University of New York Press • 1995

Interpreting the Parables

Blomberg, Craig L. • InterVarsity Press • 1990

Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions

Rindge, Matthew S. • Society of Biblical Literature • 2011

Lavishly Forgive Sins in order to Be Forgiven: Jesus’ Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

Caneday, Ardel B. • The Evangelical Review of Theology and Politics, Vol. 5 • 2017

Meteorology and Metrology: Evaluating Parallels in the Ethiopic Parables of Enoch and 2 (Slavonic) Enoch

Macaskill, Grant • Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 29, No. 2 • 2019

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

Schipper, Jeremy • Cambridge University Press • 2009

Parables and Rhetoric in the Sermon on the Mount: New Approaches to a Classical Text

Baasland, Ernst • Mohr Siebeck • 2015

Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi

Levine, Amy-Jill • HarperOne • 2014

The Challenge of Jesus’ Parables: Matthew's Parables of the Kingdom

Hagner, Donald A. • William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company • 2000

The Contexts of Jesus' Parables

Gowler, David B. • Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University • 2006

The Delay of the Parousia and Gentile Inclusion in the Synoptic Parables

King, Zachary Josetph • Vrije Universiteit • 2017

The Parable of the Weeds – Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43

Long, Phillip J. • Grace Christian University • 2021

The Parables in Q

Roth, Dieter T. • T&T Clark • 2018

"The Parables of Enoch in Early Christianity" in Charlesworth, James H., and Darrell L. Bock., ed. Parables of Enoch: A Paradigm Shift

McDonald, Lee Martin • T&T Clark • 2013

The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary

Hultgren, Arland J. • William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company • 2000

The Power of Parables

Frankovic, Joseph • Jerusalem Perspective • 1995

The Use of Isaiah 5,1-7 in the Parable of the Tenants (Mark 12,1-12; Matthew 21,33-46)

Weren, W. J. C. • Biblica, Vol. 79, No. 1 • 1998

The Widening Circle: Honour, Shame, and Collectivism in the Parable of Prodigal Son

Eng, Daniel K. • The Expository Times • 2018

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