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John C. Reeves. Jewish Lore in Manichean Cosmogony: Studies in the “Book of Giants” Traditions. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 14. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. xi, 260 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Michael E. Stone
Michael E. Stone
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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AJS Review , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , November 1995 , pp. 396 - 399
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1995

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1. Dobschtitz, E. von, Das Decretum Gelasianum, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 38.4 (Leipzig, 1912), p. 54.Google Scholar

2. Henning, W. B., "The Book of Giants," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 11 (1943): 52–74, building on his own earlier articles.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. The Cologne Mani Codex was published in a series of articles in Zeitschrift fiir Papyrologie und Epigraphik between 1975 and 1982 by A. Henrichs and L. Koenen. A critical edition is Koenen, L. and Romer, C., Der Kolner Mani-Kodex: Kritis che Edition (Opladen, 1988). The literature on this codex and on Mani's Elchsaite origins is extensive; valuable indications may be found in Reeves, pp. 4–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4. 1Q23,6Q8,4QEnGia, 4QEnGib, 4QEnGic, and 4QEnGie. There are, perhaps, two further manuscripts of the work, 4QEnGid and 4QEnGif. See Milik, J. T., "Problemes de la litterature henochique a la lumiere des fragments arameens de Qumran," Harvard Theological Review 64 (1971): 333–378Google Scholar; , idem, "Turfan et Qumran. Livre des Geants juif et manicheen," in Tradition und Glaube: Dasfruhe Christentum in seiner Umwelt, ed. J., Jeremias, H.-W., Kuhn, and H., Stegemann (Gottingen, 1971), pp. 117–127Google Scholar; and , idem. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 (Oxford, 1976), pp. 298–339. See further Reeves, pp. 6–7.Google Scholar