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xxxiv The Booh of Enoch,
VoLKMAR, ' Beitrage zur Erklarung des Buches Henoch
{Zeitsch: D. M. G., xiv. 1860, pp. 87-134, 296) :
'Einige Bemer-
kungen iiber Apokalyptik' {Zeitsclir .
f. w. Theol., iv. 1861, pp. 111-
136) :
' Ueber die katholisehen Briefe und Henoch ' (iv. 1861,
pp. 422-436 ; V. 1862, pp. 46-75). As Hilgenfeld reckoned the
periods of the Seventy Shepherds at seven years each, starting
from 588 b. c, and thus arrived at 98 b. c, Volkmar started
from the same anterior limit and reckoned each period at ten
years. He thus found the entire rule of the shepherds to last
700 years or, through certain refinements, peculiarly Volkmarian,
720 years, and so arrived at the year of Barcochab's rebellion
A. D. 132—a year which has exercised a strange fascination over
him and has been fatal to his reputation as a critic. Thus Enoch
was written 132 b. c. It was the work of a disciple of Akiba, and
was designed to announce the final victory of Bareochab. Volkmar
restated his theory in an essaj^: Eine Neutestamentliche Ent-
deckung, Ziirich, 1862. His views have received more attention
than they deserved through the rejoinders of Hilgenfeld, Dill-
mann, Langen, Sieffert, Gebhardt, Drummond, and Stanton.
Geiger, JildiscJie ZeitscJir. f. Wmensch. und Lehen, 1864-1865,
pp. 196-204. This article deals mainly with the Calendar in
Enoch. I have adopted one of his suggestions in 10*.
Langen, Das Jitdenthum in Palddina, 1866, pp. 35-64.
Langen regards Enoch as an early but highly composite work
put together in its present form about 160 B.C. (pp. 36, 64), and
emanating from orthodox and patriotic Judaism as a protest
against heathen religion and philosophy.
SiEFEERT, Be apocryphi lihri Henochi origine et argumento,
Begimonti, 1867. Sieffert (p. 3) takes the groundwork to be
1-16 20-36 72-82 91-105, written by a Chasid in the age
of Simon the Maccabee (pp. 11-13) : 83-90 is a later addition
about the year 108 b. c, and 17-19 37-71 106-108 are of Essene
origin and composed before 64 b. c. (pp. 27-29).
202.
HoLTZMANN, GescUcUe des f'olkes Israel, 1867, vol. ii, pp. 201