Henryk Drawnel is Professor of Second Temple Judaism at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He began teaching the Old Testament at the Salesian Seminary in Kraków in 2001. In 2003, he defended his doctoral dissertation (S.S.D.) at the Pontifical Biblical Institute; then taught in Kraków at the Pontifical Academy of Theology and the Jagiellonian University Department of Jewish Studies. In 2005, he moved to work at the Institute of Biblical Studies of the Catholic University of Lublin. His publications include The Aramaic Astronomical Book from Qumran (2011).
The English of Drawnel's book reads well...The book contains a wealth of carefully and clearly presented material and is the authoritative edition to which scholars must now turn. * James C. VanderKam, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, Dead Sea Discoveries * Drawnel has raised the bar for critical editions of Qumran material, and his treatment of the Aramaic Enochic material presented here is the new standard edition. * Daniel M. Gurtner, Crestwood, Kentucky, Religious Studies Review * It is comprehensive, with extensive studies supplementing the edition and translation of the manuscripts themselves, and the reviewer commends this book. * Moritz F. Adam, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament * This is an impressive study on the part of D. and an invaluable resource for any scholar who wishes to understand or engage the Enochic texts discovered at Qumran. * Kelley Coblentz Bautch, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly * His careful treatment of the Aramaic scrolls, exhaustive text-critical notes of the manuscript evidence, and other features (e.g., his new numbering system) make Drawnel's volume the standard edition of the Aramaic Enoch manuscripts from Cave 4 at Qumran. * Catherine E. Bonesho, Review of Biblical Literature *