This paper explores the Hebrew-language treasure-text known as Massekhet Kelim and argues for the existence and situation of two versions of the text within different networks of ancient and medieval Jewish texts. It separates the two versions that have previously been published eclectically, describing the character of each and their emergent…[Read more]

This article suggests that the Codex Panopolitanus Book of the Watchers attests a new arrangement of the work, one organized around a Genesis-style biography of Enoch. I argue that the two scribes of the Book of the Watchers in Codex Panopolitanus are pursuing radically different literary goals and produce different narrative progressions. The…[Read more]

An overview of rabbinic traditions about Moses, with attention to the absence of the hagiographic traditions typical of earlier and later Jewish literature.