Bruk Ayele Asale is president of Mekane Yesus Seminary and Lecturer of New Testament at Mekane Yesus Seminary and the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. He is a member of SBL and the Enoch Seminar and has published several articles on a number of topics.
"Western biblical scholarship has typically approached the
Ethiopian book of Enoch with a predetermined and narrow set of
interests: to understand the New Testament and unlock the origins
of Christianity. First Enoch is thus reduced to an object of
critical inquiry without any appreciation for the living African
subjects that have harbored and practiced its traditions for
centuries up until the present. In this regard, Bruk Asale's study
is a breath of fresh air that fills a gap still largely missing in
Enochic studies even when it is attentive to reception history.
Readers will greatly benefit from this book as they learn about the
rich tapestry of Ethiopian Christianities and, dare I say, about 1
Enoch itself as they see this literary corpus come alive."
--Isaac W. Oliver/de Oliveira, Bradley University
"This study on 1 Enoch by Dr. Bruk Ayele Asale is of particular
importance because, as an Ethiopian scholar, he is particularly
attentive to the Ethiopian appropriation of this work. The New
Testament quotes it as Scripture and several parts of it have been
found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, but the Ethiopian Orthodox
Tewahǝdo Church is the only present-day context in which the book
is still 'alive' and part of the canon."
--Paul B. Decock, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
"Bruk Ayele has given us a fine study on the 1 Enoch in Jude and
the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, one of the ancient churches
in the world. The book offers a rich treatment of 1 Enoch from a
Protestant perspective, a masterful survey of modern scholarship,
and a lucid exposition of the text in Ethiopian context. It is a
remarkable achievement."
--Samuel Yonas Deressa, Concordia University, St. Paul
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