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2020 Enoch Seminar Colloquium

2020-11-10T16:39:34Z

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Every year the Enoch Colloquium in November is an opportunity for international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins to gather together and discuss topics of common interest.

The 2020 Enoch Seminar Colloquium (Nov 11-12) includes two major events:

* (a) a presentation (on Nov 11) of the book, ''A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission'', edited by Alexander Kulik et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). The volume is a major contribution to the study of the reception of Second Temple Jewish literature in Christian context.

* (b) a seminar (on Nov 12) on the ''The Place of Matthew within the Diversity of Second Temple Judaism and the Jesus Movement''. Specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins will discuss the Jewishness of the Gospel of Matthew and its place in the diversity of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity.

All are invited to register and attend these online events.

On Nov 11, the annual "Enoch Seminar Reception" will also be held.

== Schedule ==

'''DAY 1 (Wednesday, 11 November 2020) -- 11:15am-4:30pm EST
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Schedule

11:15am -- Informal gathering of participants

11:30am -- Welcome and Introduction

11:40am -- Presentation of the volume by the Editors (Alexander Kulik, Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, Michael Stone, Jason Zurawski)

12pm -- Review of the volume by 3 external panelists (15m each)

**James L. Kugel (Harvard University / Bar Ilan University)
**Liv Ingeborg Lied (MF Norwegian School of Theology)
**Hindy Najman (University of Oxford)

12:45pm -- Responses by 3 authors (5m each)

**Martha Himmelfarb
**Robert Kraft
**Gregory Sterling

1:00pm -- Discussion with the Editors, the authors and the audience.

2:00pm -- 30min break

2:30pm -- 9th Enoch Seminar Reception

3:30m -- Board of Directors Meeting

'''DAY 2 (Thursday, 12 November 2020) - 10am-4:30pm
'''
Theme: The Place of Matthew within the Diversity of Second Temple Judaism and the Jesus Movement

The Gospel of Matthew has often been dubbed the “most Jewish Gospel.” But what does this evaluation even mean? If it is so Jewish, how so? What about the Jewishness of other Gospel texts such as Mark, Luke, and John? And what does “Jewish,” in any case, mean in Matthew’s time? In this session, the Enoch Seminar continues to critically appreciate the Jewish context and texture of early Christianity by focusing on Matthew’s particular relationship with(in) Judaism. Invited specialists will discuss anew the distinctive character of Matthew’s Gospel as they seek to relate it to its Jewish milieu in all of its complexity.

Schedule

9:30am -- Informal Gathering of Participants (Gabriele Boccaccini)

10:00am -- Welcome - Kelley Coblentz Bautch (5 min.)

10:05am -- Introduction - Isaac W. Oliver (5 min.)

10:15am Status quaestionis on the Study of Matthew Within Judaism - Anders Runesson (15 min.)

10:30am -- The Place of Matthew within the Diversity of Second Temple Judaism

* What are the major features of Matthew’s Judaism?
* What do we mean by “Jewish” in Matthew’s time?
* Which (other) kind of Judaism is Matthew most closely related to?
* What is the place of Matthew within Jewish Sectarianism?

Gabriele Boccaccini (Chair)

Albert Baumgarten (10 min.)
Daniel Gurtner (10 min.)
John Kampen (10 min.)
A.-J. Levine (10 min.)

Discussion

12:00pm -- Break

1:00pm -- The Place of Matthew within the Diversity of the Jesus Movement

* What does it mean that Matthew is the most Jewish Gospel?
* Why Matthew, and not Luke or Mark or John?
* Is it proper to distinguish NT texts as “more” or “less” Jewish?
* What is the place of Matthew within the Jesus movement?

Gabriele Boccaccini (Chair)

Kathy Ehrensperger (10 min.)
Gabriele Boccaccini (10 min.)
Isaac W. Oliver (10 min.)
Karin Zetterholm (10 min.)

Discussion

3:00pm -- Isaac Oliver (chair) -- Wrap-up session with the panelists [Live on Facebook]
4:15pm - Conclusions

== Confirmed Participants ==

#Albert Baumgarten (panelist)
#Laura Bizzarro
#Gabriele Boccaccini (panelist)
#Akiva Cohen
#Jason Comber
#Jim Davila
#Rachel Dryden
#Kathy Ehrensperger (panelist)
#Trenton R. Ferro
#Roy Fisher
#Jörg Frey
#Daniel Gurtner (panelist)
#Rebecca Harris
#Årstein Justnes
#John Kampen (panelist)
#Arie van der Kooij
#Ryan Lambert
#A.-J. Levine (panelist)
#Jocelyn McWhirter
#Eva-Charlotta Mebius
#Daniele Minisini
#Alastair Moodie
#Eric Noffke
#Isaac W. Oliver (panelist)
#Amy Richter
#Vernon Robbins
#Anders Runesson
#Timothy B. Sailors
#Lawrence Schiffman
#Joshua Scott
#David C. Sim
#David Andrews Smith
#Joel Wildermuth
#Karin Zetterholm (panelist)

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-10-19T19:51:23Z

Jason Zurawski: /* DAY 1 – Tuesday, 20 October 2020 */

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:'''From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon:'''

:'''Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Related Aramaic Traditions from Qumran'''

: '''October 20-22, 2020'''

International Conference on the Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch

organized by the Institute of Biblical Studies (KUL, Lublin, Poland)

in collaboration with the Enoch Seminar

* Chairs: Henryk Drawnel and Gabriele Boccaccini
* Secretary: Joshua Scott

==Tentative schedule==

* 6:00am to 1:45pm -- Los Angeles time
* '''9:00am to 4:45pm -- New York time'''
* 2:00pm to 9:45 -- London time
* 3:00pm to 10:45pm -- Europe time
* 4:00pm to 11:45pm -- Jerusalem time
* see [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html World Clock Meeting Planner]

=== DAY 1 – Tuesday, 20 October 2020 ===

8:30am – 11:30am EST/EDT

8:30am - Informal gathering of participants

9:00am – Introductory remarks (Henryk Drawnel, Loren Stuckenbruck, & Gabriele Boccaccini)

====Session I – The Book of Watchers [Chair Lawrence H. Schiffman]====

9:30am – Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ph11gtoQCjDboG7vKZzNyQkYpS8Y5Gv4/view?usp=sharing The Vision of the Heavenly Temple (1 En 14:8-25) Reconsidered] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R9aX7QjUp9b2pO-ijpwCxLwaMaeFMRXP/view?usp=sharing Handout]

10:00am – Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OtQLYY-TX8X0IJ8GdOqnaEUR14KStggL/view?usp=sharing The Work of the Heaven and Earth (1 En. 2:1–5:2) in Its Context (1 En. 1:1–9; 5:4–9)]

10:30am – James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame IN, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E0f_5OoN221jEC2s0XE6lcJgScCmES7q/view?usp=sharing But What About the People?]

11:00am – Plenary Discussion.

12:00pm–2:00pm EST/EDT

====Session II – Aramaic Context of 1 Enoch [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch]====

12:00pm – Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zwjcqqIFUCwebaXpnFKma5lg_XIUd_2y/view?usp=sharing On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yeyTXYJ7hrXygKvtAczvxbwb6u-A5HBH/view?usp=sharing Handout]

12:30pm – Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WGWKX1tDz_9GiWpfL8VhACpFvIK-BxZE/view?usp=sharing Behind the Name: ՙyryn, gbryn, nplyn, Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition concerning the Watchers]

1:00pm – Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11y-hHRTp-ma0R1X17WH-DV9z5rDclYGb/view?usp=sharing “And all the rest of its light is taken.” A comparative look at the lunar fractions in 4QAstronomical Enocha-b (4Q208–4Q209)]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

2:30pm–4:30pm EST/EDT

====Session III – Redaction, Scribal Work, and Slavonic Enoch [Chair Matthew Goff]====

2:30pm – Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA - More than One Recension? The Evidence from Aramaic Book of the Watchers

3:00pm – Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRnnyD0yTg9U3RcTKWOBfon1-bL_dHIQ/view?usp=sharing The Scribes Who Copied the Works of Enoch]

3.30pm – Florentina Badanalova-Geller, University College London, London, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/166PA_nDtjYypcDLsCtTWu6U_25f-Nb6k/view?usp=sharing 1st and 2nd Enoch Compared and Contrasted]

4:00pm Plenary discussion

===DAY 2 – Wednesday, 21 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – DAY 1 recap [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini]: ====

* Lawrence H. Schiffman, Matthew Goff, Gerbern Oegema

9:30am – 11:30am EST/EDT

====Session IV – Genesis Apocryphon and the Book of Giants [Chair James VanderKam]====

9:30am – Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XDMyclvytlJiYjBF-zZYa-JvL1fHZ5f/view?usp=sharing Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon]

10:00am – Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tXvqmkhoHZymptL76YfwWzBWcIKBdovH/view?usp=sharing The Qumran Book of Giants and Aramaic]

10:30am – Itai Kagan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B9ZIzm4EMT68dz75pQokledfY8-k9bAW/view?usp=sharing ‘Righteous Plant’ or ‘Rightful Plant’? Unlocking a Key Term in 1 Enoch and Genesis Apocryphon]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12:30pm – 2:30pm EST/EDT

====Session V – Enochic Astronomy and the Ancient Near East [Chair Mirjam Bokhorst]====

12:30pm – Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w7B0W3hoq_aX2wVCLeHcbbE-hC2P3v0h/view?usp=sharing The Nebuchadnezzar reliefs from Brisa (Lebanon) as Inspiration for the Myth of the Watchers]

1:00pm – Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAksxqeQ5pHxK18LAjx6zv3VY8C862rE/view?usp=sharing The Role of the Calendar in the Sectarian Dispute in light of a New Reconstruction of 4Q318]

1:30pm – John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15l6Du0J8sr6IkXhJxXF-Ij28kM5GvoxH/view?usp=sharing Mesopotamian Astronomy in the so-called ‘Astronomical Book’ of Enoch: A Reappraisal]

2pm – Plenary discussion

3.00pm – 5.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VI – The Aramaic Books of 1 Enoch and the Qumran Community [Chair Henryk Drawnel]====

3:00pm – Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3kMNDZ4X2MCc7Ha4qZHR7Lh6Xruqh0x/view?usp=sharing What the Book of First Enoch and the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the History of the Qumran Community]

3.30pm – Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wFhCJTuqc0mMqYNSvaVGdo-c5lhlpnRX/view?usp=sharing The Teacher of Righteousness and the Scribe of Righteousness: Scribal Activity between Qumran and Enochism]

4:00pm – Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCxfWML8As10aDUydGBFFs9RgJO8RQw2/view?usp=sharing Divine Appellations and Concepts of God in the Enoch Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls]

4:30pm – Plenary discussion

'''5:00pm – Afterhours Meet & Greet – Enoch Graduate Seminar Interest Session [Chairs: Rodney Caruthers and Deborah Forger]'''

===DAY 3 -- Thursday, 22 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – Day 2 Recap (panel) [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini]====

* James VanderKam, Mirjam Bokhorst, Henryk Drawnel

9:30am-11:30am EST/EDT

====Session VII – Philology and Linguistics [Chair Eibert Tigchelaar]====

9:30am – Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU Leuven, Belgium
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIjeg0yL6rCn24456Iwazwi33pR0NM_R/view?usp=sharing From Clustering to Interpretation. Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran]

10:00am – Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Azw5JIE5XwyrV51Hzm02qgdF6cpSdRt3/view?usp=sharing The Language of Enoch in its Social and Historical Setting]

10:30am – Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/161TXfPKMaES1O-H3hsAXpQj9xmv56trL/view?usp=sharing The Language of the Qumran Aramaic Fragments of Enoch Revisited]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12.30pm–2.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VIII – Modern Forgery and Ancient Apocalyptic Authority [Chair Ida Fröhlich]====

12:30pm –Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1si40ra-y66YHTCNksJWvVi_12Wist3T_/view?usp=sharing Three Forged Fragments of 1 Enoch in the Schøyen Collection: How Were the Texts Designed by a Scholar, and How Did we Detect the Forgery?]

1.00pm – Jesper Høgenhaven and Melissa Sayyad Bach, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8wCOMCdgzHq0ceU2jWKp5f_577INIgG/view?usp=sharing Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

3:00pm-4:30pm EST/EDT

Final panel: Summary & conclusions
* Panelist: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Henryk Drawnel, Lawrence Schiffman, James VanderKam

==Registered participants==

#Sofanit T. Abebe, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
#Oren Shalom Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Israel
#Sławomir Wacław Abramowski, PWTW Warsaw (Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw), Polska
#Moritz F. Adam, University of Zurich, Switzerland
#Quinetta Adderley, Alliance Theological Seminary, USA
#Carlos Montiel Álvarez, Autonomous National University of Mexico, México
#Anuj Amin, Stanford University, USA
#Jeff S. Anderson, Wayland Baptist University, USA
#Joseph L. Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
#Patrick Joseph Angiolillo, New York University, USA
#Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
#Verónica Moreno Arjona, Université de Lorraine and Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Spain
#Fernando Raul Arce, Escuela de Alexandria, El Salvador
#Ambrose Arralde, Father Catholic University of America, USA
#Edna Assor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
#Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
#Hector Avalos, Iowa State University, USA
#Manaen Ayala, Seteca, Guatemala
#Ruben Ramírez Balderas, UTESCO, Mexico
#Silvio Barbaglia, Studio Teologico San Gaudenzio – Novara, Italia
#Gad Barnea, Haifa University, Israel
#Gustavo Bernardo Barroso, University of Lisbon, Portugal
#Dariusz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz, adiunkt Papieski Wydział Teologiczny w Warszawie, Poland
#Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA
#Moisés Jonathan Zelada Bazán, Independent Translator, Perú
#Jacob Andrew Beebe, Toronto School of Theology, USA
#Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
#Paweł Zdzisław Bieniek, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Poland
#Kirill Bitner, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
#Laura Bizzarro, Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentina
#Laurence Gregory Bloomquist, Theology of Saint Paul University, Canada
#Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
#Florin Ciprian Bodin, International Institute of Bible Archeology and Lingustic Reasearch "Beit Dina," Romania
#Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
#Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
#Lourdes Bonhome-Pulido, University of Córdoba, Spain
#Francis Borchardt, Lutheran Theological Seminary Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#Connor Boyd, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
#Jose S. Braga, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
#Lucas Scott Brandon, Florida State University, USA
#George Brooke, University of Manchester, England
#Maria Brutti, Independent Scholar (Em.), Italia
#Tamaz Bukhaidze, Gelati Theological Academy and Seminary, Georgia
#Rolex Macatdon Cailing, Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines
#Karina Casanova de Ortíz, Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Guatemala
#David Cielontko, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
#Sara Chan, CCCOWE, Hong Kong
#Abel Chavez, UAdeC, Mexico
#Maria Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Alumna), Hong Kong
#Pingling Cheung, P5 Society, Hong Kong
#Dorota Katarzyna Chwiła, KUL, Poland
#Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU, Leuven
#R. Dennis Cole, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, USA
#Paolo Collini, Independent Scholar, Italia
#Cristiana Conti-Easton, York University, Canada
#Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
#Sebastiano Crestani, Bologna University, Italy
#Charles Crouch, Catholic University of America, USA
#Marianne Josephine Dacy, University of Sydney, Australia
#Justin Daniel, Southern California Seminary, USA
#Hila Dayfani, Tel Aviv University, Israel
#James Joseph DeFrancisco, Independent Scholar, United States
#Michael DeVries, University of Birmingham, UK
#Matt Derrenbacher, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, USA
#Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University Montreal, Canada
#Elena Dinu, Independent Translator, Romania
#Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary
#Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
#Robert Duke, Azusa Pacific University, USA
#Dariusz Dziadosz, KUL Lublin, Polska
#Sarah Susan Eckert, Claremont Graduate University, USA
#Florence Abimbola Egbeyale, Florida State University, USA
#Beate Ego, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
#Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium
#Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway
#Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
#Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Whymanity Research and Training, UK
#Michele Stopera Freyhauf, Durham University/John Carroll University, UK/USA
#Peter Gadalla, Pontifical Biblical Institute, USA
#Leonardo Fernandez Galanza Jr., Center for Biblical Studies Institute & Seminary, Philippines
#Magdalena Gawlik, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Polska
#Florentina Kirilova Badalanova Geller, University College London, UK
#Agustinus Gianto, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy
#Maciej Głębocki, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
#Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
#Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum, New York University, USA
#David M. Goldenberg, Univ. of Pennsylvania (Em.), United States
#Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, United Kingdom
#Angel Javier Grabovieski, Moriah / Limud, Argentina
#Dan Gurtner, Independent Researcher, USA
#Holger Gzella, Ludwig-Maximilans University, Munich, Germany
#Steven E. Fassberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
#Randolf Carino Flores , Divine Word Seminary - School of Theology, Philippines
#Lisbeth S. Fried, Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, USA
#Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
#Rebekah Haigh, Princeton, USA
#Yoel Halevi, University of Haifa, Israel
#David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
#Matthew Herzog, Florida State University, USA
#Søren Holst, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
#Justyna Ewa Horbowska, KUL, Poland
#Rumyana Yordanova Hristova, Evangel University, USA
#David R. Jackson (Em.), Australia
#Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain
#Alexei Jankowski-Diakonoff, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russia
#Andrzej Jędrzejczak, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Polska
#Luiz Flávio Curvelo de Jesus, Akademia Cristã, Brasil
#David Johnson, Hebrew Union College - Pine School of Graduate Studies, USA
#Årstein Justnes, University of Agder, Norway
#Itai Kagan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
#Daniel Assefa Kassaye, Tibeb Research and Retreat Center, Ethiopia
#David Katzin, UCLA, USA
#William Kennedy, Methodist Theological School - Ohio, USA
#Martina Kepper, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
#Bethany Kinderman, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
#Krzysztof Kinowski, Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne, Poland
#Hanne Irene Kirchheiner, Independent Researcher, Denmark
#Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, USA
#Tomasz Kornek, Jan Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
#Wojciech Piotr Kosek, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, Poland
#Piotr Kot, Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Legnicy, Polska
#Karina Krainer, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
#Mateusz Krawczyk, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Polska
#Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider, Université Toulouse 2, Austria
#Adam Kubis, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
#Mateusz Kusio, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
#Peter Lanfer, Occidental College, USA
#Joe Lee, William Jessup University, USA
#Joseph Levi, Pontifical Gregorian University, Bea Centre, Rome, Italy
#Susan Leybourne, University of Wales Trinity - Saint David, United Kingdom
#Emerald Joy Romanos Lictawa, Sultan Kudarat State University, Philippines
#Drew Longacre, University of Groningen, Netherlands
#Kwang Meng Low, National University of Singapore, Singapore
#Renata Ani Łukiewicz-Kostro, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II w Lublinie, Poland
#Paweł Lupa, Wyższe Baptystyczne Seminarium Teologiczne, Polska
#Hubert Michał Maciejewicz, WBST, Polska
#Katie Maguire, University of Toronto, Canada
#Paul Mandel, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel
#Michał Marciniak, Pontifical Faculty of Theology (Wroclaw), Poland
#Angel Fernandino Martín, Alexandria, España
#Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
#Ryan Masterson, Colorado Christian University, USA
#Joshua Mark Matson, Florida State University, USA
#Natalia Matuszewska, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polska
#Alexander McCarron, University of Oxford, UK
#Gavin McDowell, Université Laval, Canada
#Louisa None Miller, Ponticial University Angelicum (Em.), Italy
#Daniele Minisini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
#Zoheir Mirkarimi, Macquarie University, Australia
#Eva-Charlotta Mebius, UCL/Watts Gallery, United Kingdom
#Theron Clay Mock III, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
#Jonathan Chase Morgan, Rogers Park Community Church, USA
#Matthew Morgenstern, Tel Aviv University, Israel
#Michael J. Morris, University of Mary, USA
#Steve Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, USA
#Dorota Katarzyna Muszytowska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland
#Menahem Kister, The Hebrew University, Israel
#Uri Kraut, International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism, Canada
#Paweł Jan Lupa, Wyższe Baptystyczne Seminarium Teologiczne, Polska
#Natanael Muñoz Farfan Natanael, Seminario Teológico Presbiteriano de México, México
#James Nati, Santa Clara University/Graduate Theological Union, USA
#Matthew Neville, Birmingham University, UK
#Sam Newington, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
#Low John Ny, STM, Malaysia
#Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University, Canada
#Emily T. Olsen, Florida State University, USA
#Oscar Mauricio Ortíz Chacón, Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Guatemala
#Panayotis Coutsoumpos Otis, University of Montemorelos, Mexico
#Willian Edson Pereira, Unopar, Brazil
#Carina Perstadius, Lund Ubiversity/ Oslo University, Nederländerna
#Nestor H. Petruk, Italian Adventist University, Italia
#Kirill Porubaev, Pontifical Biblical University, Italia
#Patrick Pouchelle, Centre Sevres, France
#Richard Putman, Independent Researcher, Cambridge University, UK
#Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel
#Andrea Ravasco, ISSR Genoa, Italy
#Yosef Razin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
#Naila Razzaq, Yale University, USA
#Megan Remington, UCLA, USA
#Liliana Rosso, Independent Researcher (Em.), Unito, Italy
#Stefanie Rudolf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
#Carlos Alberto Saraiva, Teologo Mackenzie, Brasil
#Jeffrey A. Schesnol, International Institute of Secular and Humanistic Judaism, USA
#Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA
#Eileen Schuller, McMaster University, Canada
#Joshua Scott, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
#James Senturk, Open University, UK
#Ibrahim Shafiee, University of Tehran, I.R. Iran
#Anna Shirav, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
#Kasper Siegismund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
#Joseph Sievers , Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy
#Liliana Siewierska-Suchy, Papieski Wydział Teologiczny, Poland
#Ari Silbermann, Bar Ilan, Israel
#Willem Frederik Smelik, University College London, Netherlands/UK
#Maria Filomena Perdigão Soares, Universidade de Lisboa- Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
#Wojciech Maciej Stabryla, Salesian Pontifical University, Faculty of Theology - Jerusalem Campus, Studium Theologicum Salesianum, Israel
#John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
#Sacha Stern, UCL, United Kingdom
#Carla D. Sulzbach, Independent Researcher, McGill University, Canada
#Stefan Szymik, WT KUL, Sekcja Nauk Biblijnych, Poland
#Balazs Tamasi, Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies, Hungary
#Mateusz Targoński, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy/Poland
#Seng Tawng, Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar
#Fatemeh Tayebi, Independent Researcher, Iran
#Dieter Leon Thom, Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait
#Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium
#Mariano Alejandro Troiano, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
#Mariola Anna Trojanowska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland
#James M. Tucker, University of Toronto, Canada
#Steve Ulrich, Independent Researcher, USA
#Ana T. Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
#Juan Sebastián Hernández Valencia, Universidad católica Luis Amigó, Colombia
#James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA
#Harvey Van Bik, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong
#Hanneke van der Schoor, KU Leuven, Belgium
#Marcelo Wall, Universidad Evangélica del Paraguay, Paraguay
#Jim West, Hua Theological College, USA
#Tommy Woodward, Florida State University, USA
#Archibald T. Wright, London School of Theology, USA
#Miroslaw Stanislaw Wrobel, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland
#Ho Yi Yeung, Evangel Seminary of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#Kin Pok Yu, HKCH, Hong Kong
#Yan Yu, Lutheran Theological Seminary, HK
#Chi Yau Yue, Lutheran Theological Seminary, 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區
#Asad Uz Zaman, Ohio State University, USA
#Alana Rebecca Zimath, Florida State University, USA

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-10-17T17:34:45Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session VIII – Modern Forgery and Ancient Apocalyptic Authority [Chair Ida Fröhlich] */

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:'''From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon:'''

:'''Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Related Aramaic Traditions from Qumran'''

: '''October 20-22, 2020'''

International Conference on the Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch

organized by the Institute of Biblical Studies (KUL, Lublin, Poland)

in collaboration with the Enoch Seminar

* Chairs: Henryk Drawnel and Gabriele Boccaccini
* Secretary: Joshua Scott

==Tentative schedule==

* 6:00am to 1:45pm -- Los Angeles time
* '''9:00am to 4:45pm -- New York time'''
* 2:00pm to 9:45 -- London time
* 3:00pm to 10:45pm -- Europe time
* 4:00pm to 11:45pm -- Jerusalem time
* see [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html World Clock Meeting Planner]

=== DAY 1 – Tuesday, 20 October 2020 ===

8:30am – 11:30am EST/EDT

8:30am - Informal gathering of participants

9:00am – Introductory remarks (Henryk Drawnel, Loren Stuckenbruck, & Gabriele Boccaccini)

====Session I – The Book of Watchers (I) [chair Lawrence H. Schiffman]====

9:30am – Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ph11gtoQCjDboG7vKZzNyQkYpS8Y5Gv4/view?usp=sharing The Vision of the Heavenly Temple (1 En 14:8-25) Reconsidered] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R9aX7QjUp9b2pO-ijpwCxLwaMaeFMRXP/view?usp=sharing Handout]

10:00am – Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OtQLYY-TX8X0IJ8GdOqnaEUR14KStggL/view?usp=sharing The Work of the Heaven and Earth (1 En. 2:1–5:2) in Its Context (1 En. 1:1–9; 5:4–9)]

10:30am – James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame IN, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E0f_5OoN221jEC2s0XE6lcJgScCmES7q/view?usp=sharing But What About the People?]

11:00am – Plenary Discussion.

12:00pm–2:00pm EST/EDT

====Session II – Aramaic Context of 1 Enoch [chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch]====

12:00pm – Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zwjcqqIFUCwebaXpnFKma5lg_XIUd_2y/view?usp=sharing On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels]

12:30pm – Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WGWKX1tDz_9GiWpfL8VhACpFvIK-BxZE/view?usp=sharing Behind the Name: ՙyryn, gbryn, nplyn, Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition concerning the Watchers]

1:00pm – Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11y-hHRTp-ma0R1X17WH-DV9z5rDclYGb/view?usp=sharing “And all the rest of its light is taken.” A comparative look at the lunar fractions in 4QAstronomical Enocha-b (4Q208–4Q209)]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

2:30pm–4:30pm EST/EDT

====Session III – Redaction, Scribal Work, and Slavonic Enoch [chair Matthew Goff]====

2:30pm – Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA - More than One Recension? The Evidence from Aramaic Book of the Watchers

3:00pm – Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRnnyD0yTg9U3RcTKWOBfon1-bL_dHIQ/view?usp=sharing The Scribes Who Copied the Works of Enoch]

3.30pm – Florentina Badanalova-Geller, University College London, London, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/166PA_nDtjYypcDLsCtTWu6U_25f-Nb6k/view?usp=sharing 1st and 2nd Enoch Compared and Contrasted]

4:00pm Plenary discussion

===DAY 2 – Wednesday, 21 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – DAY 1 recap [chair Gabriele Boccaccini]: ====

* Lawrence H. Schiffman, Matthew Goff, Gerbern Oegema

9:30am – 11:30am EST/EDT

====Session IV – Genesis Apocryphon and the Book of Giants [chair James VanderKam]====

9:30am – Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XDMyclvytlJiYjBF-zZYa-JvL1fHZ5f/view?usp=sharing Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon]

10:00am – Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tXvqmkhoHZymptL76YfwWzBWcIKBdovH/view?usp=sharing The Qumran Book of Giants and Aramaic]

10:30am – Itai Kagan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B9ZIzm4EMT68dz75pQokledfY8-k9bAW/view?usp=sharing ‘Righteous Plant’ or ‘Rightful Plant’? Unlocking a Key Term in 1 Enoch and Genesis Apocryphon]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12:30pm – 2:30pm EST/EDT

====Session V – Enochic Astronomy and the Ancient Near East [chair Mirjam Bokhorst]====

12:30pm – Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w7B0W3hoq_aX2wVCLeHcbbE-hC2P3v0h/view?usp=sharing The Nebuchadnezzar reliefs from Brisa (Lebanon) as Inspiration for the Myth of the Watchers]

1:00pm – Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAksxqeQ5pHxK18LAjx6zv3VY8C862rE/view?usp=sharing The Role of the Calendar in the Sectarian Dispute in light of a New Reconstruction of 4Q318]

1:30pm – John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15l6Du0J8sr6IkXhJxXF-Ij28kM5GvoxH/view?usp=sharing Mesopotamian Astronomy in the so-called ‘Astronomical Book’ of Enoch: A Reappraisal]

2pm – Plenary discussion

3.00pm – 5.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VI – The Aramaic Books of 1 Enoch and the Qumran Community [chair Henryk Drawnel]====

3:00pm – Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3kMNDZ4X2MCc7Ha4qZHR7Lh6Xruqh0x/view?usp=sharing What the Book of First Enoch and the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the History of the Qumran Community]

3.30pm – Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wFhCJTuqc0mMqYNSvaVGdo-c5lhlpnRX/view?usp=sharing The Teacher of Righteousness and the Scribe of Righteousness: Scribal Activity between Qumran and Enochism]

4:00pm – Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCxfWML8As10aDUydGBFFs9RgJO8RQw2/view?usp=sharing Divine Appellations and Concepts of God in the Enoch Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls]

4.30pm – Plenary discussion

===DAY 3 -- Thursday, 22 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – Day 2 Recap (panel) [chair Gabriele Boccaccini]====

* James VanderKam, Mirjam Bokhorst, Henryk Drawnel

9:30am-11:30am EST/EDT

====Session VII – Philology and Linguistics [chair Eibert Tigchelaar]====

9:30am – Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU Leuven, Belgium
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIjeg0yL6rCn24456Iwazwi33pR0NM_R/view?usp=sharing From Clustering to Interpretation. Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran]

10:00am – Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Azw5JIE5XwyrV51Hzm02qgdF6cpSdRt3/view?usp=sharing The Language of Enoch in its Social and Historical Setting]

10:30am – Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/161TXfPKMaES1O-H3hsAXpQj9xmv56trL/view?usp=sharing The Language of the Qumran Aramaic Fragments of Enoch Revisited]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12.30pm–2.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VIII – Modern Forgery and Ancient Apocalyptic Authority [Chair Ida Fröhlich]====

12:30pm –Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1si40ra-y66YHTCNksJWvVi_12Wist3T_/view?usp=sharing Three Forged Fragments of 1 Enoch in the Schøyen Collection: How Were the Texts Designed by a Scholar, and How Did we Detect the Forgery?]

1.00pm – Jesper Høgenhaven and Melissa Sayyad Bach, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8wCOMCdgzHq0ceU2jWKp5f_577INIgG/view?usp=sharing Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

3:00pm-4:30pm EST/EDT

Final panel: Summary & conclusions
* Panelist: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Henryk Drawnel, Lawrence Schiffman, James VanderKam

==Registered participants==

#Sofanit T. Abebe, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
#Oren Shalom Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Israel
#Sławomir Wacław Abramowski, PWTW Warsaw (Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw), Polska
#Moritz F. Adam, University of Zurich, Switzerland
#Quinetta Adderley, Alliance Theological Seminary, USA
#Carlos Montiel Álvarez, Autonomous National University of Mexico, México
#Anuj Amin, Stanford University, USA
#Jeff S. Anderson, Wayland Baptist University, USA
#Joseph L. Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
#Patrick Joseph Angiolillo, New York University, USA
#Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
#Verónica Moreno Arjona, Université de Lorraine and Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Spain
#Fernando Raul Arce, Escuela de Alexandria, El Salvador
#Ambrose Arralde, Father Catholic University of America, USA
#Edna Assor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
#Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
#Hector Avalos, Iowa State University, USA
#Manaen Ayala, Seteca, Guatemala
#Ruben Ramírez Balderas, UTESCO, Mexico
#Silvio Barbaglia, Studio Teologico San Gaudenzio – Novara, Italia
#Gad Barnea, Haifa University, Israel
#Gustavo Bernardo Barroso, University of Lisbon, Portugal
#Dariusz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz, adiunkt Papieski Wydział Teologiczny w Warszawie, Poland
#Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA
#Moisés Jonathan Zelada Bazán, Independent Translator, Perú
#Jacob Andrew Beebe, Toronto School of Theology, USA
#Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
#Paweł Zdzisław Bieniek, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Poland
#Kirill Bitner, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
#Laura Bizzarro, Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentina
#Laurence Gregory Bloomquist, Theology of Saint Paul University, Canada
#Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
#Florin Ciprian Bodin, International Institute of Bible Archeology and Lingustic Reasearch "Beit Dina," Romania
#Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
#Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
#Lourdes Bonhome-Pulido, University of Córdoba, Spain
#Francis Borchardt, Lutheran Theological Seminary Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#Connor Boyd, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
#Jose S. Braga, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
#Lucas Scott Brandon, Florida State University, USA
#George Brooke, University of Manchester, England
#Maria Brutti, Independent Scholar (Em.), Italia
#Tamaz Bukhaidze, Gelati Theological Academy and Seminary, Georgia
#Rolex Macatdon Cailing, Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines
#Karina Casanova de Ortíz, Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Guatemala
#David Cielontko, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
#Sara Chan, CCCOWE, Hong Kong
#Abel Chavez, UAdeC, Mexico
#Maria Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Alumna), Hong Kong
#Pingling Cheung, P5 Society, Hong Kong
#Dorota Katarzyna Chwiła, KUL, Poland
#Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU, Leuven
#R. Dennis Cole, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, USA
#Paolo Collini, Independent Scholar, Italia
#Cristiana Conti-Easton, York University, Canada
#Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
#Sebastiano Crestani, Bologna University, Italy
#Charles Crouch, Catholic University of America, USA
#Marianne Josephine Dacy, University of Sydney, Australia
#Justin Daniel, Southern California Seminary, USA
#Hila Dayfani, Tel Aviv University, Israel
#James Joseph DeFrancisco, Independent Scholar, United States
#Michael DeVries, University of Birmingham, UK
#Matt Derrenbacher, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, USA
#Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University Montreal, Canada
#Elena Dinu, Independent Translator, Romania
#Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary
#Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
#Robert Duke, Azusa Pacific University, USA
#Dariusz Dziadosz, KUL Lublin, Polska
#Sarah Susan Eckert, Claremont Graduate University, USA
#Florence Abimbola Egbeyale, Florida State University, USA
#Beate Ego, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
#Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium
#Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway
#Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
#Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Whymanity Research and Training, UK
#Michele Stopera Freyhauf, Durham University/John Carroll University, UK/USA
#Peter Gadalla, Pontifical Biblical Institute, USA
#Leonardo Fernandez Galanza Jr., Center for Biblical Studies Institute & Seminary, Philippines
#Magdalena Gawlik, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Polska
#Florentina Kirilova Badalanova Geller, University College London, UK
#Agustinus Gianto, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy
#Maciej Głębocki, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
#Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
#Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum, New York University, USA
#David M. Goldenberg, Univ. of Pennsylvania (Em.), United States
#Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, United Kingdom
#Angel Javier Grabovieski, Moriah / Limud, Argentina
#Dan Gurtner, Independent Researcher, USA
#Holger Gzella, Ludwig-Maximilans University, Munich, Germany
#Steven E. Fassberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
#Randolf Carino Flores , Divine Word Seminary - School of Theology, Philippines
#Lisbeth S. Fried, Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, USA
#Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
#Rebekah Haigh, Princeton, USA
#Yoel Halevi, University of Haifa, Israel
#David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
#Matthew Herzog, Florida State University, USA
#Søren Holst, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
#Justyna Ewa Horbowska, KUL, Poland
#Rumyana Yordanova Hristova, Evangel University, USA
#David R. Jackson (Em.), Australia
#Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain
#Alexei Jankowski-Diakonoff, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russia
#Andrzej Jędrzejczak, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Polska
#Luiz Flávio Curvelo de Jesus, Akademia Cristã, Brasil
#David Johnson, Hebrew Union College - Pine School of Graduate Studies, USA
#Årstein Justnes, University of Agder, Norway
#Itai Kagan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
#Daniel Assefa Kassaye, Tibeb Research and Retreat Center, Ethiopia
#David Katzin, UCLA, USA
#William Kennedy, Methodist Theological School - Ohio, USA
#Martina Kepper, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
#Bethany Kinderman, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
#Krzysztof Kinowski, Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne, Poland
#Hanne Irene Kirchheiner, Independent Researcher, Denmark
#Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, USA
#Tomasz Kornek, Jan Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
#Wojciech Piotr Kosek, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, Poland
#Piotr Kot, Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Legnicy, Polska
#Karina Krainer, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
#Mateusz Krawczyk, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Polska
#Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider, Université Toulouse 2, Austria
#Adam Kubis, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
#Mateusz Kusio, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
#Peter Lanfer, Occidental College, USA
#Joe Lee, William Jessup University, USA
#Joseph Levi, Pontifical Gregorian University, Bea Centre, Rome, Italy
#Susan Leybourne, University of Wales Trinity - Saint David, United Kingdom
#Emerald Joy Romanos Lictawa, Sultan Kudarat State University, Philippines
#Drew Longacre, University of Groningen, Netherlands
#Kwang Meng Low, National University of Singapore, Singapore
#Renata Ani Łukiewicz-Kostro, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II w Lublinie, Poland
#Paweł Lupa, Wyższe Baptystyczne Seminarium Teologiczne, Polska
#Hubert Michał Maciejewicz, WBST, Polska
#Katie Maguire, University of Toronto, Canada
#Paul Mandel, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel
#Michał Marciniak, Pontifical Faculty of Theology (Wroclaw), Poland
#Angel Fernandino Martín, Alexandria, España
#Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
#Ryan Masterson, Colorado Christian University, USA
#Joshua Mark Matson, Florida State University, USA
#Natalia Matuszewska, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polska
#Alexander McCarron, University of Oxford, UK
#Gavin McDowell, Université Laval, Canada
#Louisa None Miller, Ponticial University Angelicum (Em.), Italy
#Daniele Minisini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
#Zoheir Mirkarimi, Macquarie University, Australia
#Eva-Charlotta Mebius, UCL/Watts Gallery, United Kingdom
#Theron Clay Mock III, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
#Jonathan Chase Morgan, Rogers Park Community Church, USA
#Matthew Morgenstern, Tel Aviv University, Israel
#Michael J. Morris, University of Mary, USA
#Steve Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, USA
#Dorota Katarzyna Muszytowska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland
#Menahem Kister, The Hebrew University, Israel
#Uri Kraut, International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism, Canada
#Paweł Jan Lupa, Wyższe Baptystyczne Seminarium Teologiczne, Polska
#Natanael Muñoz Farfan Natanael, Seminario Teológico Presbiteriano de México, México
#James Nati, Santa Clara University/Graduate Theological Union, USA
#Matthew Neville, Birmingham University, UK
#Sam Newington, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
#Low John Ny, STM, Malaysia
#Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University, Canada
#Emily T. Olsen, Florida State University, USA
#Oscar Mauricio Ortíz Chacón, Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Guatemala
#Panayotis Coutsoumpos Otis, University of Montemorelos, Mexico
#Willian Edson Pereira, Unopar, Brazil
#Carina Perstadius, Lund Ubiversity/ Oslo University, Nederländerna
#Nestor H. Petruk, Italian Adventist University, Italia
#Kirill Porubaev, Pontifical Biblical University, Italia
#Patrick Pouchelle, Centre Sevres, France
#Richard Putman, Independent Researcher, Cambridge University, UK
#Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel
#Andrea Ravasco, ISSR Genoa, Italy
#Yosef Razin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
#Naila Razzaq, Yale University, USA
#Megan Remington, UCLA, USA
#Liliana Rosso, Independent Researcher (Em.), Unito, Italy
#Stefanie Rudolf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
#Carlos Alberto Saraiva, Teologo Mackenzie, Brasil
#Jeffrey A. Schesnol, International Institute of Secular and Humanistic Judaism, USA
#Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA
#Eileen Schuller, McMaster University, Canada
#Joshua Scott, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
#James Senturk, Open University, UK
#Ibrahim Shafiee, University of Tehran, I.R. Iran
#Anna Shirav, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
#Kasper Siegismund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
#Joseph Sievers , Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy
#Liliana Siewierska-Suchy, Papieski Wydział Teologiczny, Poland
#Ari Silbermann, Bar Ilan, Israel
#Willem Frederik Smelik, University College London, Netherlands/UK
#Maria Filomena Perdigão Soares, Universidade de Lisboa- Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
#Wojciech Maciej Stabryla, Salesian Pontifical University, Faculty of Theology - Jerusalem Campus, Studium Theologicum Salesianum, Israel
#John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
#Sacha Stern, UCL, United Kingdom
#Carla D. Sulzbach, Independent Researcher, McGill University, Canada
#Stefan Szymik, WT KUL, Sekcja Nauk Biblijnych, Poland
#Balazs Tamasi, Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies, Hungary
#Mateusz Targoński, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy/Poland
#Seng Tawng, Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar
#Fatemeh Tayebi, Independent Researcher, Iran
#Dieter Leon Thom, Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait
#Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium
#Mariano Alejandro Troiano, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
#Mariola Anna Trojanowska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland
#James M. Tucker, University of Toronto, Canada
#Steve Ulrich, Independent Researcher, USA
#Ana T. Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
#Juan Sebastián Hernández Valencia, Universidad católica Luis Amigó, Colombia
#James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA
#Harvey Van Bik, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong
#Hanneke van der Schoor, KU Leuven, Belgium
#Marcelo Wall, Universidad Evangélica del Paraguay, Paraguay
#Jim West, Hua Theological College, USA
#Tommy Woodward, Florida State University, USA
#Archibald T. Wright, London School of Theology, USA
#Miroslaw Stanislaw Wrobel, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland
#Ho Yi Yeung, Evangel Seminary of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#Kin Pok Yu, HKCH, Hong Kong
#Yan Yu, Lutheran Theological Seminary, HK
#Chi Yau Yue, Lutheran Theological Seminary, 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區
#Asad Uz Zaman, Ohio State University, USA
#Alana Rebecca Zimath, Florida State University, USA

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-10-08T17:21:23Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session II – Aramaic Context of 1 Enoch [chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] */

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:'''From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon:'''

:'''Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Related Aramaic Traditions from Qumran'''

: '''October 20-22, 2020'''

International Conference on the Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch

organized by the Institute of Biblical Studies (KUL, Lublin, Poland)

in collaboration with the Enoch Seminar

* Chairs: Henryk Drawnel and Gabriele Boccaccini
* Secretary: Joshua Scott

==Tentative schedule==

* 6:00am to 1:45pm -- Los Angeles time
* '''9:00am to 4:45pm -- New York time'''
* 2:00pm to 9:45 -- London time
* 3:00pm to 10:45pm -- Europe time
* 4:00pm to 11:45pm -- Jerusalem time
* see [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html World Clock Meeting Planner]

=== DAY 1 – Tuesday, 20 October 2020 ===

9am – 11:30am EST/EDT

9:00am – Gathering of participants and introductory remarks (Henryk Drawnel, Loren Stuckenbruck, & Gabriele Boccaccini)

====Session I – The Book of Watchers (I) [chair Lawrence H. Schiffman]====

9:30am – Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ph11gtoQCjDboG7vKZzNyQkYpS8Y5Gv4/view?usp=sharing The Vision of the Heavenly Temple (1 En 14:8-25) Reconsidered] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R9aX7QjUp9b2pO-ijpwCxLwaMaeFMRXP/view?usp=sharing Handout]

10:00am – Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OtQLYY-TX8X0IJ8GdOqnaEUR14KStggL/view?usp=sharing The Work of the Heaven and Earth (1 En. 2:1–5:2) in Its Context (1 En. 1:1–9; 5:4–9)]

10:30am – James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame IN, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E0f_5OoN221jEC2s0XE6lcJgScCmES7q/view?usp=sharing But What About the People?]

11:00am – Plenary Discussion.

12:00pm–2:00pm EST/EDT

====Session II – Aramaic Context of 1 Enoch [chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch]====

12:00pm – Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zwjcqqIFUCwebaXpnFKma5lg_XIUd_2y/view?usp=sharing On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels]

12:30pm – Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WGWKX1tDz_9GiWpfL8VhACpFvIK-BxZE/view?usp=sharing Behind the Name: ՙyryn, gbryn, nplyn, Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition concerning the Watchers]

1:00pm – Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11y-hHRTp-ma0R1X17WH-DV9z5rDclYGb/view?usp=sharing “And all the rest of its light is taken.” A comparative look at the lunar fractions in 4QAstronomical Enocha-b (4Q208–4Q209)]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

2:30pm–4:30pm EST/EDT

====Session III – Redaction, Scribal Work, and Slavonic Enoch [chair Matthew Goff]====

2:30pm – Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA - More than One Recension? The Evidence from Aramaic Book of the Watchers

3:00pm – Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRnnyD0yTg9U3RcTKWOBfon1-bL_dHIQ/view?usp=sharing The Scribes Who Copied the Works of Enoch]

3.30pm – Florentina Badanalova-Geller, University College London, London, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/166PA_nDtjYypcDLsCtTWu6U_25f-Nb6k/view?usp=sharing 1st and 2nd Enoch Compared and Contrasted]

4:00pm Plenary discussion

===DAY 2 – Wednesday, 21 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – DAY 1 recap [chair Gabriele Boccaccini]: ====

* Lawrence H. Schiffman, Matthew Goff.

9:30am – 11:30am EST/EDT

====Session IV – Genesis Apocryphon and the Book of Giants [chair James VanderKam]====

9:30am – Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XDMyclvytlJiYjBF-zZYa-JvL1fHZ5f/view?usp=sharing Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon]

10:00am – Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tXvqmkhoHZymptL76YfwWzBWcIKBdovH/view?usp=sharing The Qumran Book of Giants and Aramaic]

10:30am – Itai Kagan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B9ZIzm4EMT68dz75pQokledfY8-k9bAW/view?usp=sharing ‘Righteous Plant’ or ‘Rightful Plant’? Unlocking a Key Term in 1 Enoch and Genesis Apocryphon]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12:30pm – 2:30pm EST/EDT

====Session V – Enochic Astronomy and the Ancient Near East [chair Mirjam Bokhorst]====

12:30pm – Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w7B0W3hoq_aX2wVCLeHcbbE-hC2P3v0h/view?usp=sharing The Nebuchadnezzar reliefs from Brisa (Lebanon) as Inspiration for the Myth of the Watchers]

1:00pm – Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAksxqeQ5pHxK18LAjx6zv3VY8C862rE/view?usp=sharing The Role of the Calendar in the Sectarian Dispute in light of a New Reconstruction of 4Q318]

1:30pm – John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15l6Du0J8sr6IkXhJxXF-Ij28kM5GvoxH/view?usp=sharing Mesopotamian Astronomy in the so-called ‘Astronomical Book’ of Enoch: A Reappraisal]

2pm – Plenary discussion

3.00pm – 5.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VI – The Aramaic Books of 1 Enoch and the Qumran Community [chair Henryk Drawnel]====

3:00pm – Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3kMNDZ4X2MCc7Ha4qZHR7Lh6Xruqh0x/view?usp=sharing What the Book of First Enoch and the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the History of the Qumran Community]

3.30pm – Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wFhCJTuqc0mMqYNSvaVGdo-c5lhlpnRX/view?usp=sharing The Teacher of Righteousness and the Scribe of Righteousness: Scribal Activity between Qumran and Enochism]

4:00pm – Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCxfWML8As10aDUydGBFFs9RgJO8RQw2/view?usp=sharing Divine Appellations and Concepts of God in the Enoch Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls]

4.30pm – Plenary discussion

===DAY 3 -- Thursday, 22 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – Day 2 Recap (panel) [chair Gabriele Boccaccini]====

* James VanderKam, Mirjam Bokhorst, Henryk Drawnel

9:30am-11:30am EST/EDT

====Session VII – Philology and Linguistics [chair Eibert Tigchelaar]====

9:30am – Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU Leuven, Belgium
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIjeg0yL6rCn24456Iwazwi33pR0NM_R/view?usp=sharing From Clustering to Interpretation. Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran]

10:00am – Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Azw5JIE5XwyrV51Hzm02qgdF6cpSdRt3/view?usp=sharing The Language of Enoch in its Social and Historical Setting]

10:30am – Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/161TXfPKMaES1O-H3hsAXpQj9xmv56trL/view?usp=sharing The Language of the Qumran Aramaic Fragments of Enoch Revisited]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12.30pm–2.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VIII – Modern Forgery and Ancient Apocalyptic Authority [Chair Ida Fröhlich]====

12:30pm –Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1si40ra-y66YHTCNksJWvVi_12Wist3T_/view?usp=sharing Three Forged Fragments of 1 Enoch in the Schøyen Collection: How Were the Texts Designed by a Scholar, and How Did we Detect the Forgery?]

1.00pm – Jesper Høgenhaven, Melissa Sayyad Bach and Kasper Siegismund, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8wCOMCdgzHq0ceU2jWKp5f_577INIgG/view?usp=sharing Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

3:00pm-4:30pm EST/EDT

Final panel: Summary & conclusions
* Panelist: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Henryk Drawnel, Lawrence Schiffman, James VanderKam

==Registered participants==

1. Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

* What the Book of First Enoch and the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the History of the Qumran Community

2. Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

* The Nebuchadnezzar reliefs from Brisa (Lebanon) as Inspiration for the Myth of the Watchers

3. Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

* The Vision of the Heavenly Temple (1 En 14:8-25) reconsidered

4. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA

* To be announced

5. Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU Leuven

* From Clustering to Interpretation: A Neural Network Approach to the Classification of the Genesis Apocryphon

6. Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA

* To be announced

7. Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary

* Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon

8. Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

* An Invitation to Study Astronomy (1 En. 2:1–5:2) and the Eschatological Judgment (1 En. 1:1–9; 5:4–9)

9. Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium

* On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels

10. Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway

* Three forged fragments of 1 Enoch in the Schøyen Collection: How were the texts designed by a scholar, and how did we detect the forgery?

11. Holger Gzella, Ludwig-Maximilans University, Munich, Germany

* To be announced

12. Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (teaches Wednesdays- talk on Thursday)

* To be announced

13. Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

* Behind the name: ՙyryn, gbryn, nplyn, protagonists of the earliest tradition on the Watchers

14. Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

* The Qumran Book of Giants and Aramaic

15. Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain

* A comparative look at the lunar fractions in the Aramaic fragments of 4QAstronomical Enocha-b ar (4Q208–4Q209)

16. Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

* The Teacher of Righteousness and the Scribe of Righteousness. Scribal Activity between Qumran and Enochism

17. Matthew Morgenstern, Tel Aviv University, Israel (teaches Wednesdays, paper on Thursday)

* To be announced

18. Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel (teaches Thursdays)

* The Role of the Calendar in the Sectarian Dispute in light of a New Reconstruction of 4Q318

19. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA

* Divine Appelations and concepts of God in the Enoch fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls

20. John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

* To be announced

21. Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium

* To be announced

22. James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA

* But What About the People?

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-10-06T15:32:25Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session I – The Book of Watchers (I) [chair Lawrence H. Schiffman] */

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:'''From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon:'''

:'''Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Related Aramaic Traditions from Qumran'''

: '''October 20-22, 2020'''

International Conference on the Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch

organized by the Institute of Biblical Studies (KUL, Lublin, Poland)

in collaboration with the Enoch Seminar

* Chairs: Henryk Drawnel and Gabriele Boccaccini
* Secretary: Joshua Scott

==Tentative schedule==

* 6:00am to 1:45pm -- Los Angeles time
* '''9:00am to 4:45pm -- New York time'''
* 2:00pm to 9:45 -- London time
* 3:00pm to 10:45pm -- Europe time
* 4:00pm to 11:45pm -- Jerusalem time
* see [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html World Clock Meeting Planner]

=== DAY 1 – Tuesday, 20 October 2020 ===

9am – 11:30am EST/EDT

9:00am – Gathering of participants and introductory remarks (Henryk Drawnel, Loren Stuckenbruck, & Gabriele Boccaccini)

====Session I – The Book of Watchers (I) [chair Lawrence H. Schiffman]====

9:30am – Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ph11gtoQCjDboG7vKZzNyQkYpS8Y5Gv4/view?usp=sharing The Vision of the Heavenly Temple (1 En 14:8-25) Reconsidered] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R9aX7QjUp9b2pO-ijpwCxLwaMaeFMRXP/view?usp=sharing Handout]

10:00am – Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OtQLYY-TX8X0IJ8GdOqnaEUR14KStggL/view?usp=sharing The Work of the Heaven and Earth (1 En. 2:1–5:2) in Its Context (1 En. 1:1–9; 5:4–9)]

10:30am – James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame IN, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E0f_5OoN221jEC2s0XE6lcJgScCmES7q/view?usp=sharing But What About the People?]

11:00am – Plenary Discussion.

12:00pm–2:00pm EST/EDT

====Session II – Aramaic Context of 1 Enoch [chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch]====

12:00pm – Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zwjcqqIFUCwebaXpnFKma5lg_XIUd_2y/view?usp=sharing On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels]

12:30pm – Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WGWKX1tDz_9GiWpfL8VhACpFvIK-BxZE/view?usp=sharing Behind the Name: ՙyryn, gbryn, nplyn, Protagonists of the Earliest Tradition concerning the Watchers]

1:00pm – Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11y-hHRTp-ma0R1X17WH-DV9z5rDclYGb/view?usp=sharing A Comparative Look at the Lunar Fractions in the Aramaic Fragments of 4QAstronomical Enocha-b ar (4Q208–4Q209)]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

2:30pm–4:30pm EST/EDT

====Session III – Redaction, Scribal Work, and Slavonic Enoch [chair Matthew Goff]====

2:30pm – Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA - More than One Recension? The Evidence from Aramaic Book of the Watchers

3:00pm – Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRnnyD0yTg9U3RcTKWOBfon1-bL_dHIQ/view?usp=sharing The Scribes Who Copied the Works of Enoch]

3.30pm – Florentina Badanalova-Geller, University College London, London, Great Britain - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/166PA_nDtjYypcDLsCtTWu6U_25f-Nb6k/view?usp=sharing 1st and 2nd Enoch Compared and Contrasted]

4:00pm Plenary discussion

===DAY 2 – Wednesday, 21 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – DAY 1 recap [chair Gabriele Boccaccini]: ====

* Lawrence H. Schiffman, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Matthew Goff.

9:30am – 11:30am EST/EDT

====Session IV – Genesis Apocryphon and the Book of Giants [chair James VanderKam]====

9:30am – Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XDMyclvytlJiYjBF-zZYa-JvL1fHZ5f/view?usp=sharing Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon]

10:00am – Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tXvqmkhoHZymptL76YfwWzBWcIKBdovH/view?usp=sharing The Qumran Book of Giants and Aramaic]

10:30am – Itai Kagan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B9ZIzm4EMT68dz75pQokledfY8-k9bAW/view?usp=sharing ‘Righteous Plant’ or ‘Rightful Plant’? Unlocking a Key Term in 1 Enoch and Genesis Apocryphon]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12:30pm – 2:30pm EST/EDT

====Session V – Enochic Astronomy and the Ancient Near East [chair Mirjam Bokhorst]====

12:30pm – Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w7B0W3hoq_aX2wVCLeHcbbE-hC2P3v0h/view?usp=sharing The Nebuchadnezzar reliefs from Brisa (Lebanon) as Inspiration for the Myth of the Watchers]

1:00pm – Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAksxqeQ5pHxK18LAjx6zv3VY8C862rE/view?usp=sharing The Role of the Calendar in the Sectarian Dispute in light of a New Reconstruction of 4Q318]

1:30pm – John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15l6Du0J8sr6IkXhJxXF-Ij28kM5GvoxH/view?usp=sharing Mesopotamian Astronomy in the so-called ‘Astronomical Book’ of Enoch: A Reappraisal]

2pm – Plenary discussion

3.00pm – 5.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VI – The Aramaic Books of 1 Enoch and the Qumran Community [chair Henryk Drawnel]====

3:00pm – Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3kMNDZ4X2MCc7Ha4qZHR7Lh6Xruqh0x/view?usp=sharing What the Book of First Enoch and the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the History of the Qumran Community]

3.30pm – Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wFhCJTuqc0mMqYNSvaVGdo-c5lhlpnRX/view?usp=sharing The Teacher of Righteousness and the Scribe of Righteousness: Scribal Activity between Qumran and Enochism]

4:00pm – Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCxfWML8As10aDUydGBFFs9RgJO8RQw2/view?usp=sharing Divine Appellations and Concepts of God in the Enoch Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls]

4.30pm – Plenary discussion

===DAY 3 -- Thursday, 22 October 2020===

8:30am - Gathering of participants

====8:45am – Day 2 Recap (panel) [chair Gabriele Boccaccini]====

* James VanderKam, Mirjam Bokhorst, Henryk Drawnel

9:30am-11:30am EST/EDT

====Session VII – Philology and Linguistics [chair Eibert Tigchelaar]====

9:30am – Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU Leuven, Belgium
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIjeg0yL6rCn24456Iwazwi33pR0NM_R/view?usp=sharing From Clustering to Interpretation. Lexical Differences in Light of Linguistic Features in the Enochic Texts from Qumran]

10:00am – Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Azw5JIE5XwyrV51Hzm02qgdF6cpSdRt3/view?usp=sharing The Language of Enoch in its Social and Historical Setting]

10:30am – Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/161TXfPKMaES1O-H3hsAXpQj9xmv56trL/view?usp=sharing The Language of the Qumran Aramaic Fragments of Enoch Revisited]

11:00am – Plenary discussion

12.30pm–2.00pm EST/EDT

====Session VIII – Modern Forgery and Ancient Apocalyptic Authority [Chair Ida Fröhlich]====

12:30pm –Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1si40ra-y66YHTCNksJWvVi_12Wist3T_/view?usp=sharing Three Forged Fragments of 1 Enoch in the Schøyen Collection: How Were the Texts Designed by a Scholar, and How Did we Detect the Forgery?]

1.00pm – Jesper Høgenhaven, Melissa Sayyad Bach and Kasper Siegismund, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8wCOMCdgzHq0ceU2jWKp5f_577INIgG/view?usp=sharing Apocalypticism and Authority in the Visions of Amram]

1:30pm – Plenary discussion

3:00pm-4:30pm EST/EDT

Final panel: Summary & conclusions
* Panelist: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Henryk Drawnel, Lawrence Schiffman, James VanderKam

==Registered participants==

1. Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

* What the Book of First Enoch and the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the History of the Qumran Community

2. Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

* The Nebuchadnezzar reliefs from Brisa (Lebanon) as Inspiration for the Myth of the Watchers

3. Mirjam Bokhorst, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

* The Vision of the Heavenly Temple (1 En 14:8-25) reconsidered

4. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, USA

* To be announced

5. Mathias Coeckelbergs, Université libre de Bruxelles - KU Leuven

* From Clustering to Interpretation: A Neural Network Approach to the Classification of the Genesis Apocryphon

6. Edward M. Cook, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA

* To be announced

7. Jaap Doedens, Pápa Reformed Theological Seminary, Pápa, Hungary

* Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon

8. Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

* An Invitation to Study Astronomy (1 En. 2:1–5:2) and the Eschatological Judgment (1 En. 1:1–9; 5:4–9)

9. Shlomi Efrati, KU Leuven, Belgium

* On Angels and Mountains: Notes on the Levantine and Aramaic Background of the Fallen Angels

10. Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway

* Three forged fragments of 1 Enoch in the Schøyen Collection: How were the texts designed by a scholar, and how did we detect the forgery?

11. Holger Gzella, Ludwig-Maximilans University, Munich, Germany

* To be announced

12. Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (teaches Wednesdays- talk on Thursday)

* To be announced

13. Ida Fröhlich, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

* Behind the name: ՙyryn, gbryn, nplyn, protagonists of the earliest tradition on the Watchers

14. Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

* The Qumran Book of Giants and Aramaic

15. Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain

* A comparative look at the lunar fractions in the Aramaic fragments of 4QAstronomical Enocha-b ar (4Q208–4Q209)

16. Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

* The Teacher of Righteousness and the Scribe of Righteousness. Scribal Activity between Qumran and Enochism

17. Matthew Morgenstern, Tel Aviv University, Israel (teaches Wednesdays, paper on Thursday)

* To be announced

18. Eshbal Ratzon, Ariel University, Israel (teaches Thursdays)

* The Role of the Calendar in the Sectarian Dispute in light of a New Reconstruction of 4Q318

19. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, New York, NY, USA

* Divine Appelations and concepts of God in the Enoch fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls

20. John M. Steele, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

* To be announced

21. Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven, Belgium

* To be announced

22. James VanderKam, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA

* But What About the People?

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-16T17:06:36Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session VIII – Slavonic Enoch and the Visions of Amram [Chair Ida Fröhlich] */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-16T17:06:08Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session III – Redaction, Scribal Work, and Modern Forgery [chair Matthew Goff] */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-16T17:05:19Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Tentative schedule */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-16T17:02:17Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session III – Redaction, Scribal Work, and Modern Forgery [chair Matthew Goff] */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-10T20:09:01Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Prospective participants */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-10T20:07:59Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Session II – Aramaic Context of 1 Enoch [chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-07T15:33:08Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Tentative schedule */

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

2020-09-07T15:23:44Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Tentative schedule */

Kathy Ehrensperger

2020-08-01T14:15:13Z

Jason Zurawski:

[[File:Kathy Ehrensperger.jpg|thumb|250px]]

'''Kathy Ehrensperger''' (b.1956) is a British scholar. Studied theology at the Universities of Basel and Berne, and was a pastor for sixteen years in Switzerland. She is currently a Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the Abraham Geiger College, University of Potsdam.

==Works ==

====Books====

*[[That We May Be Mutually Encouraged: Feminism and the New Perspective in Pauline Studies (2004 Ehrensperger), book]]

*[[Paul and the Dynamics of Power (2007 Ehrensperger), book]]

*[[Paul at the Crossroads of Cultures: Theologizing in the Space-Between (2013 Ehrensperger), book]]

====Edited volumes====

* [[Reformation Readings of Romans (2008 Ehrensperger, Holder), edited volume]]

* [[Reading Paul in Context: Explorations in Identity Formation (2008 Ehrensperger, Holder), edited volume]]

==Biography==
*[ Wikipedia.en]

[[Category:Scholars|1956 Ehrensperger]]

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[[Category:British Scholars|1956 Ehrensperger]]

[[Category:Women|1956 Ehrensperger]]
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[[Category:Pauline Studies--English|~1956 Ehrensperger]]

[[Category:Born in the 1950s| 1956 Ehrensperger]]

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-30T19:56:33Z

Jason Zurawski: /* DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Benjamin Reynolds, Lawrence Schiffman, Loren Stuckenbruck, Archie Wright, and Jason Zurawski). Secretary: Joshua Scott

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

== A welcome from Gabriele Boccaccini, director of the Enoch Seminar ==

It was March 22 when Kelley, Loren and I launched the idea of an online conference that would reproduce the seminar format of our meetings. We were sick and tired of reading every day about canceled conferences and postponed events. We wanted to give a sign of reaction and rebirth.

We are now approaching the beginning of this conference with the highest expectations. We are saddened by Loren’s illness, to whom we wish the fastest recovery, and by the death of James Dunn, who has given so much to the studies in our field. But we are excited by the enthusiasm demonstrated by the dozens of scholars who have worked on this project for months, and by the number of participants who joined it. It is an experiment we want to be successful and a bet we want to win.

In 20 years of activity, the Enoch Seminar has grown considerably from a small group of scholars to a much larger and more diverse community. We are committed to promoting an ethos of inclusiveness and friendship. As scholars, we do not live isolated from the world and untouched by the evil of this world. But we will be measured by the courage and determination with which we adapt to even the most difficult challenges.

Special thanks go to the chairs, the panelists, the respondents, the secretary and to everyone involved in organizing the conference. I wish everyone a pleasant and enriching experience.

==Instructions to participants==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the Q&A chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by Lorenzo DiTommaso)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

==Enoch Seminar Statement on Harassment and Discrimination==

In its commitment to diversity, the Enoch Seminar actively welcomes international scholars, persons of different religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientation, and seeks gender parity as well as scholars at different stages in their academic careers.

The Enoch Seminar wishes to foster an ethos of inclusivity in all its sponsored events. It requires the highest level of professional and ethical behavior, free of all forms of harassment and discrimination, from all its members and from anyone participating in any Seminar or affiliated function.

The Board of Directors is presently composing a code of conduct for members of or participants in the Seminar and will strike an Ethics Committee to which any complaints concerning this code will be reported and evaluated in strictest confidence.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

===DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)===

'''9:30am - 10am''' - ''Welcome'' [Gabriele Boccaccini].
* A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

'''10:00am - 10:15am''' -- ''Opening Remarks'' [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

'''10:15am - 11:15am''' -- ''Awards Ceremony''

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."
* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Jonathan Ben-Dov.

'''11:15am - 11:30am''' -- ''Introduction to the Conference'' [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Archie Wright] -- ''1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?''

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

'''2:30pm - 4:00/15pm''' [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- ''2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?''

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

===DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)===

'''9:30am - 10:00am''' - ''Remarks from DAY 1'' [Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Brand, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman]

'''10am - 11:30/45am''' [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- ''3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?''

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- ''4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?''

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Wright
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt, Tessa Rajak ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

'''2:30pm - 4:00/15pm''' [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- ''5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?''

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

'''4:15pm - 5:00pm''' - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Deborah Forger, and Rodney Caruthers] - ''Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.''

===DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ===

'''9:30am - 10:00am''' - ''Remarks from DAY 2'' [Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Lawrence H. Schiffman]

'''10am - 11:30/45am''' [Chair Archie Wright] -- ''6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.''

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- ''7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?''

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Darrell Bock, Gabriele Boccaccini
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_3IHnDm618xSZdXwUzO-vJDuHSAvXrh5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

'''2:30pm - 4:00/15pm''' [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- ''8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?''

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Matthew Goff, Karen King, Gabriele Boccaccini, Catrin Williams. Deborah Forger ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

'''4:15pm - 5:00pm''' - ''What's Next? Ideas and suggestions for the Future of the Enoch Seminar.'' [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Archie Wright] - Meeting open to all those interested in participating in future Enoch Seminar events.

===DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ===

'''9:30am - 10:00am''' - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

'''10am - 11:30/45am''' [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Jonathan Kaplan ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

'''2:30pm - 3:45''' - Wrap-up session

* Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini

'''3:45pm - 4:00pm''' - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of James D.G. Dunn and the late members of the Enoch Seminar: Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Tessa Rajak (University of Reading, UK)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-26T18:53:32Z

Jason Zurawski: /* DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020) */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the Q&A chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

==Enoch Seminar Statement on Harassment and Discrimination==

In its commitment to diversity, the Enoch Seminar actively welcomes international scholars, persons of different religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientation, and seeks gender parity as well as scholars at different stages in their academic careers.

The Enoch Seminar wishes to foster an ethos of inclusivity in all its sponsored events. It requires the highest level of professional and ethical behavior, free of all forms of harassment and discrimination, from all its members and from anyone participating in any Seminar or affiliated function.

The Board of Directors is presently composing a code of conduct for members of or participants in the Seminar and will strike an Ethics Committee to which any complaints concerning this code will be reported and evaluated in strictest confidence.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

===DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)===

'''9:30am - 10am''' - Opening [Gabriele Boccaccini].
* A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

'''10:00am - 10:15am''' -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

'''10:15am - 11:15am''' -- "Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."
* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Jonathan Ben-Dov.

'''11:15am - 11:30am''' -- Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

'''2:30pm - 4:00/15pm''' [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

===DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)===

'''9:30am - 10:00am''' - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

'''10am - 11:30/45am''' [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Wright
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt, Tessa Rajak ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

'''2:30pm - 4:00/15pm''' [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

'''4:15pm - 5:00pm''' - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Deborah Forger, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

===DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ===

'''9:30am - 10:00am''' - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

'''10am - 11:30/45am''' [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_3IHnDm618xSZdXwUzO-vJDuHSAvXrh5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

'''2:30pm - 4:00/15pm''' [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Matthew Goff, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

'''4:15pm - 5:00pm''' - ''What's Next? Ideas and suggestions for the Future of the Enoch Seminar.'' [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Archie Wright] - Meeting open to all those interested in participating in future Enoch Seminar events.

===DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ===

'''9:30am - 10:00am''' - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

'''10am - 11:30/45am''' [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

'''12:00pm - 1:30/45pm''' [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

'''2:30pm - 3:45''' - Wrap-up session

* Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini

'''3:45pm - 4:00pm''' - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Tessa Rajak (University of Reading, UK)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-25T22:00:19Z

Jason Zurawski: /* DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt, Tessa Rajak ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

4:15pm-5:00pm - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_3IHnDm618xSZdXwUzO-vJDuHSAvXrh5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Matthew Goff, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Tessa Rajak (University of Reading, UK)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-25T17:18:42Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt, Tessa Rajak ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

4:15pm-5:00pm - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Matthew Goff, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Tessa Rajak (University of Reading, UK)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-25T15:25:44Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

4:15pm-5:00pm - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-25T15:25:25Z

Jason Zurawski: /* DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

4:15pm-5:00pm - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-25T15:24:27Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

4:15pm-5:00pm - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-24T19:37:50Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-24T19:28:05Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Instructions */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-24T17:58:30Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Schedule (New York Time Zone) */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUqWVOo4-w3lFMNAR3g5fW4yzC3DUl2T/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.]

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfL0ioMxvTw-nqfdzHtW4oS-ZWD7rhnA/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSYSxoNKZ8i2vEdteqKQsNx06IsLS52n/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoEi7KLc76wWG2qjGPJS-mY6iMBDh_2j/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.]

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P6UFJ9W7T2fN71b5rtqZ8bv7VPCXHkk2/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

[ Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PndCHc0Q4saC87VMRN6XoI4S-RhziQc5/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.]

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mWKRlpkFlshyxHIouF6X0ZgiUdmRMpt/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqylUiZJ4ayxtZf8OMqH7y0WCVgO68VS/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.]

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-24T17:49:08Z

Jason Zurawski:

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world (with Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe)

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1im_7vHG_a83wnZK1fFXy2HzZWVnvCcRc/view?usp=sharing Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.]

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-23T20:18:52Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

==Instructions==

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

''Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) [awardee] *
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-22T20:06:54Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''We are pleased to begin the conference at 10:00am (EDT) on 29 June with the presentation of the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) [awardee] *
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-22T19:26:08Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''We are pleased to begin the conference at 10:00am (EDT) on 29 June with the presentation of the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) [awardee] *
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-22T18:45:13Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''We are pleased to begin the conference at 10:00am (EDT) on 29 June with the presentation of the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am-10am - Opening. A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins and Amy-Jill Levine on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) [awardee] *
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# Paolo Collini (Italy)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-19T16:36:45Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''We are pleased to begin the conference at 10:00am (EDT) on 29 June with the presentation of the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Informal gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) [awardee] *
# Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# Anthony Ugochukwu Nwosu (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-19T13:38:55Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''We are pleased to begin the conference at 10:00am (EDT) on 29 June with the presentation of the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Informal gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-18T07:25:44Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

''It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the public chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.''

''We are pleased to begin the conference at 10:00am (EDT) on 29 June with the presentation of the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth.

''We will conclude our conference with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

''All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:
*1. ''All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
*2. ''Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
*3. ''Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
*4. ''Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.''

''A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.''

''The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org). ''

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Informal gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30/45am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, Sidnei Crawford, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien ...

2:30-4:00/15pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-10T14:03:26Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Schedule (New York Time Zone) */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming) followed by Q&A, but a series of workshop among invited specialists. After the presentation by three panelists there will be an hour of free discussion that will involve the respondents and the discussants and other people that from the audience will spontaneously join the conversation, like in our regular sessions at the Enoch Seminar.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Free gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King ...

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-10T13:47:58Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming) followed by Q&A, but a series of workshop among invited specialists. After the presentation by three panelists there will be an hour of free discussion that will involve the respondents and the discussants and other people that from the audience will spontaneously join the conversation, like in our regular sessions at the Enoch Seminar.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Free gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, John Kampen ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King ...

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
# Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
# John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
# Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
# David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-07T15:46:51Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming) followed by Q&A, but a series of workshop among invited specialists. After the presentation by three panelists there will be an hour of free discussion that will involve the respondents and the discussants and other people that from the audience will spontaneously join the conversation, like in our regular sessions at the Enoch Seminar.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Free gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King ...

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# @ Carol Newsom (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, England)
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-07T15:43:47Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming) followed by Q&A, but a series of workshop among invited specialists. After the presentation by three panelists there will be an hour of free discussion that will involve the respondents and the discussants and other people that from the audience will spontaneously join the conversation, like in our regular sessions at the Enoch Seminar.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Free gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King ...

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# @ Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, England)
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# @ Cecilia Wassen
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-07T11:39:50Z

Jason Zurawski:

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming) followed by Q&A, but a series of workshop among invited specialists. After the presentation by three panelists there will be an hour of free discussion that will involve the respondents and the discussants and other people that from the audience will spontaneously join the conversation, like in our regular sessions at the Enoch Seminar.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule (New York Time Zone) ==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

9:30am - Free gathering of participants from all around the world. Greetings.

10:00am-11:30am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Mark Leuchter ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
* Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana ...

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
* Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams
* Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
* Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Francis Borchardt ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Karen King ...

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia
* Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
* Discussants: Karen King ...

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# @ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# @ Samuel Adams [respondent]
# Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
# @ Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# @ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# @ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
# @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# @ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# @ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# @ Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
# Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
# Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# @ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant]
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
# @ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
# Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
# @ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
# @ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# @ Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# @ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# @ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
# @ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# @ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
# @ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# @ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# @ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# @ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# @ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
# @ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# @ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# @ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# @ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# @ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# @ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# @ Lester Grappe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent]
# Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
# @ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
# @ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# @ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
# @ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
# @ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# @ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# @ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
# Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# @ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# @ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# @ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
# @ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
# @ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# @ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# @ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# @ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# @ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
# @ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# @ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
# @ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# @ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# @ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# @ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# @ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# @ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
# @ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# @ Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# @ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# @ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# @ Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
# @ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# @ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# @ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# @ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
# Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
# @ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
# @ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# @ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
# Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# @ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
# @ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
# Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
# @ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# @ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# @ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# @ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# @ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# @ Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
# @ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# @ Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# @ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# @ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# @ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# @ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, England)
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# @ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# @ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# @ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# @ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# @ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# @ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

* @ Maxine Grossman
* @ Cecilia Wassen

*1. Elizabeth Stell, Oxford <elizabeth.stell@oriel.ox.ac.uk>
*2. Matheus de Carvalho, McGill <matheus.decarvalho@mail.mcgill.ca>
*3. @ Fiodar Litvinau, LMU <fed.lit@gmail.com>
*4. Hans Decker, Oxford <Hans.decker@oriel.oc.ac.uk>
*5. @ Joshua Scott, Michigan Ann Arbor
*6. @ Patrick J. Angiolillo (PhD at New York University)
*7. @ Daniele Minisini, University of Rome La Sapienza
*8. Sofanit Abebe, University of Edinburgh, UK
*9. @ Rachel Dryden, University of Cambridge
*10. Philippe Therrien, Lausanne <philippe.therrien@unil.ch>
*+ @ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (Florida State University, USA)

* @ Katell Berthelot
* @ Calum Carmichael
* @ Martha Himmelbarb
* @ Armin Lange
* @ Eibert Tigchelaar

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-06-01T13:34:42Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (ETD, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

10:00am-11:30am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
* Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
* Discussants: Daniele Minisini, Darrell Bock ...

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ben Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* 2:30pm-3:45pm - Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini
* 3:45pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: ''Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace.'' In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, and Larry W. Hurtado. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# Sofanit Abebe (University of Edinburgh, UK)*
# Samuel Adams [respondent]
# Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# #@ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University)*
# Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# # Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# #@ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
# # Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Samuel Balentine (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA)*
# Lori Baron (St. Louis University, USA)*
# John Barton (University of Oxford, UK)*
# #@ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edwards University, USA) [panelist]
# Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
# Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA)
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Luca Bertolino (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# # Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) *
# Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
# Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin (Newbold College, UK) *
# Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# # Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# # John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# # Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
# April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
# Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# Devorah Dimant (Haifa University, Israel) [awardee]
# Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# # Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Rachel Dryden (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, England)
# Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (Florida State University, USA)*
# Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
# # Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
# Yael Fisch (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# # Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Batsheva Goldman-Ida (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
# David Goodin (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
# Lester Grappe (University of Hull, England) [respondent]
# Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# # Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
# Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# #@ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr. (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Karen King (Harvard University, USA)*
# Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
# # Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# # John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# # Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# # Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# Fiodar Litvinau (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
# Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (Université Laval, Canada) *
# James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Enric Cortes Minguella (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
# George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)
# Jessica Ontek (Florida State University, USA)*
# #@ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Sara Parks (University of Nottingham, UK)*
# Tali Partock (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Alexander Perkins (Fordham University, USA)*
# Chad Pierce
# Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
# Andrea Ravasco (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# # Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington (UCLA, USA)*
# Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
# Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
# Eileen Schuller (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# # Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
# # Joan Taylor (King's College London, England)
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# # Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

Enoch Seminar (2001-), learned society

2020-05-27T13:43:14Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meetings (2012-) */

[[File:Palazzo Corsi Salviati.jpg|thumb|200px|[[First Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Corsi Salviati, Florence, Italy (2001)]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, Founder of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Palazzo Sullam.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Second Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Sullam, Venice, Italy (2003)]]
[[File:Bautch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward's University, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Monastero Camaldoli.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Third Enoch Seminar|Third]], [[Fourth Enoch Seminar|Fourth]], and [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]], at the Monastery of Camaldoli, Italy (2005, 2007, 2013)]]
[[File:Stuckenbruck.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Cappella Cangiani.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Fifth Enoch Seminar]], at Cappella Cangiati, Naples, Italy (2009)]]
[[File:2016 Stuckenbruck Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume|2016]]]]
[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Sixth Enoch Seminar|Sixth]] and [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]], at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy (2011, 2015)]]
[[File:2016 Boccaccini Zurawski.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2014]]]]
[[File:2013 Henze Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2013]]]]
[[File:2Enoch Orlov Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|2012]]

[[File:2009 Boccaccini Ibba.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume|2009]]]]

[[File:2007 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume|2007]]]]
[[File:2007 Boccaccini Collins.jpg|thumb|150px|2007]]
[[File:2005b Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|150px|2005]]
[[File:2005 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume|2005]]]]

The '''Enoch Seminar''' is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, who share the results of their research in the field and meet to discuss topics of common interest. In addition to the biennial ''Enoch Seminars'', the group has launched three other series of international meetings: the biennial [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (since 2006), the yearly [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (since 2012), and the occasional [[Enoch Colloquia]] (since 2017). The group also runs an online journal ([http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Online]), [http://www.4enoch.org 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism] (since 2009), and the yearly [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]] (since 2012).

==History==

Founded in 2001 by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], the Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile to the Bar-Kochba revolt—the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism have their roots. The goal is to tear down the misleading walls of separation that still divide this field of research, recovering the unity and integrity of the period. Enoch is the symbol of this inter-canonical and inter-disciplinary effort, as he is present of each and all the canons that anachronistically divide sources from the period: Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, etc.

Participation at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who have completed their PhD. To graduate students and PhD candidates, the Enoch Seminar offers a biennial meeting (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).

The Enoch Seminar is chaired by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan) and is made possible by fundings from the University of Michigan and from the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment.

Enoch Seminar Board of Directors:
*[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, USA
*[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward’s University, USA
*[[Lorenzo DiTommaso]], Concordia University Montreal, Canada
*[[Esther Eshel]], Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*[[Matthias Henze]], Rice University, USA
*[[Pierluigi Piovanelli]], University of Ottawa, Canada
*[[Carlos A. Segovia]], Camilo José Cela University, Spain
*[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Germany
*[[Jason M. Zurawski]], University of Groningen, Netherlands

==Meetings (chronology)==

====2001====

*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''

====2003====

*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''

====2005====

*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''

====2006====

*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2007====

*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''

====2008====

*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2009====

*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''

====2010====

*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2011====

*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''

====2012====

*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2013====

*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2014====

*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2015====

*2015 (June 15–19; Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?''
*2015 (June; Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''
*2015 (June; Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2015 (Nov; Atlanta, GA) - 4th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2016====

*2016 (May; Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Jun; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Jun; Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2016 (Nov; San Antonio, TX) - 5th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2017====

*2017 (Jun 11-16; Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2017 (Jun 18-23; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]]: ''From tôrāh to the Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''
*2017 (Nov 16-18; Boston, MA) - [[1st Enoch Colloquium]] and 6th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2018====

*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - Seventh Enoch Graduate Seminar
*2018 (June 10-15; Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (June 17-22; Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]:''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2018 (Nov 17-20; Denver, CO) - 7th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2019====

*2019 (June 9-14; Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''
*2019 (June 16-20; Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2019 (Nov 23-26; San Diego, CA) - 8th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2020====

*2020 (June 29 - July 2; Worldwide) - [[2020 Enoch Seminar Online]]: ''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity''
*2020 (Nov 21-24; Boston, MA) - Fourth Enoch Colloquium and 9th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2021====

*2021 (May 23-28; Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''
*2021 (June 6-10; Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''
*2021 (July 18-22; Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''

====2022====

* Rome - John the Baptist

====2023====

* Milan --

====2024====

* Rome --

====2025====

* Milan

====2026====

* Rome

*[[The Jewish Origins of Christian Worship, from Paul to Tertullian]] (Padoa, 8-12 June, 2020)
**Francesco Pieri
**Paul F. Bradshaw
**Maxwell Johnson - University of Notre Dame
**Bryan D. Spinks - Yale University
**Andrew B. McGowan, ''Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological''
**Larry Hurtado,
**Daniel Boyarin
**Enrico Norelli
**Romano Penna
**Marcel Metzger (France - University of Strasburg)
**Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship (eds. Albert Gerhards & Clemens Leonhard) Brill 2007
**Clemens Leonhardt, The Jewish Pesach and the Origin of the Christian Easter (2006)
**Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt (Leiden University) Didache

==Meetings of the Enoch Seminar (2001-)==

*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''
**[[The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''
**[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''
**[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''
**[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume]]
**[[Enoch and Jubilees (2009 Bertalotto/Hanneken), edited volume]]

*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
**[[New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012 Orlov, Boccaccini), edited volume]]
**[[Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam (2011 Zurawski), edited volume]]

*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''
**[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
**[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]

*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
**[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''

*2017 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]] - ''From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''

*2019 (Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]] - ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''

*2021 (Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]] - ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''

==Enoch Seminar [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (2012-)==

*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
**[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
**[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]
*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: "Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?"
*2015 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2016 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2017 (Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2018 (Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (Rome, Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2019 (Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2021 (Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''
*2021 (Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''

==Meetings of the [[Enoch Colloquia]] (2017-)==

*2017 (Cambridge, MA, USA; November)
*2018 (Denver, CO;November)

<in preparation>
*2020 (Boston, MA, USA; November)

==Meetings of the [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (2006-)==

*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

<In preparation:>
*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
*2020 (Boston, MA)

==Enoch Seminar Receptions at the SBL (2012-) ==

*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st SBL Annual Meeting
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd SBL Annual Meeting
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd SBL Annual Meeting
*2015 (Atlanta, GA) - 4th SBL Annual Meeting
*2016 (San Antonio, TX) - 5th SBL Annual Meeting
*2017 (Boston, MA) - 6th SBL Annual Meeting

<In preparation:>
*2018 (Denver, CO) - 7th SBL Annual Meeting
*2019 (San Diego, CA) - 8th SBL Annual Meeting

==Publications from the Enoch Seminar==

#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Turin: Zamorani, 2005) [=Henoch
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005)
#The First Enoch Graduate Seminar at the University of Michigan: 1. Angels and Demons (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2006) [=Henoch 28.2 (2006)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins (eds.), The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba (eds.), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
#Gabriele Boccaccini, Pierpaolo Bertalotto and Todd Hanneken (eds.), Enoch and Jubilees (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009) [=Henoch 31.1 (2009)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.1 (2011)]
# Across the Jewish-Christian Divide: Perspectives from the Enoch Graduate Seminar of Budapest (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.2 (2011)]
#Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
#Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
#[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
#[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]

=="The [[Enoch Seminar]]", an article by Philip Jenkins (30 May 2016)==

One of the most exciting areas today in Biblical scholarship (broadly defined) is the Enoch Seminar. Founded in 2001, it originally focused on the literature associated with the patriarch Enoch, but has since branched out massively, almost to become a field in its own right. The changing limits of that field are fascinating, both for their present state and their emerging dimensions.

The main Seminar meetings occur regularly in a variety of international settings, and are strictly intended for credentialed scholars, by invitation only. The actual roster of experts varies widely on each occasion, but with some continuity. Since 2006, there is also a graduate seminar that meets every two years, most recently last week in Austin TX, where I had the privilege of serving as a faculty mentor.
So what does the Enoch Seminar do? It describes its topic areas as “Second Temple Judaism, Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins,” and that staggeringly broad reach is deliberate. The basic theme is that the Jewish world between, say, 300 BC and 200 AD, included a great many ideas and themes, some of which fit well into standard and orthodox views of Jewish history, but others would be viewed as Christian, Jewish-Christian, Gnostic or Jewish-sectarian.

At the time, though, those various ingredients all belonged in one common cauldron of ideas, without hard boundaries separating them. Nor was it obvious which elements were going to become components of world religions, and which would be consigned to obscure heresies. The more you investigate this period, moreover, the more absurd become the traditional divisions that scholars once drew about which texts were “more Jewish,” and which Gentile or Hellenistic. (See for instance 150 years of debate on the Gospel of John).
One theme that emerges repeatedly: just because an idea or theme does not fit within the mold of later Rabbinic Judaism does not mean that its origins were not thoroughly Jewish.

This is, in fact, one of the most critical eras in the history of religion. It also left a vast range of writings, including standard Jewish and Christian texts, but also a range of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. You get a sense of the scope we are dealing with here from the various edited volumes that have emerged from the Seminar. In 2009, for instance, the main Seminar met in Italy, and its discussions appeared under the title New Perspectives on 2 Enoch, edited by Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini. In 2012, again, the Seminar pursued the theme The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, and that is now the title of the just published collection, edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski. For anyone working in the areas of early Jewish history and Christian origins, these collections are just indispensable.

To see what younger scholars are up to now, you can check out the titles of the recent Austin papers here. I stress, just the titles, not the full-length papers. All are very much works in progress, and the authors don’t want to give public access to works that are still in the course of development. Nor, understandably, do they want other people purloining their ideas before they can be properly published. But the list of topics is very wide, and deeply impressive, as was the dazzling diversity of themes. And so was the level of execution and presentation. If this is the next scholarly generation, this is wonderful news.

I had my own particular favorites from the papers presented, but won’t embarrass the ones I select or ignore!
One question that does occur. Just glance at the range of eras, themes and societies covered in this conference. How on earth would we find a single overarching description for all these, if we did not use the convenience term “Enochic”?

If you trace the Enoch field through the past sixteen years, it is intriguing to see the directions in which research has been leading, logically and almost inevitably. Today, the main area of focus is shifting to Islamic origins, and the roots of Islam in Jewish and Christian soil. If recent seminars are anything to go by, watch for major insights and unsuspected connections in that area.
And where next, we ask?

If you want to see the cutting edge actually cutting, this is where it is happening.

== Participants ==

Here are the names of international scholars who have attended three or more meetings of the Enoch Seminar. A detailed list of participants is offered in [[Enoch Seminar Participants]].

==== Veterans ====

* [[Luca Arcari]] (Italy) -- [[Daniel Assefa]] (Ethiopia)

* [[Florentina Badalanova Geller]] (Germany) -- [[Albert I. Baumgarten]] (Israel) -- [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]] (USA) -- [[Giovanni Bazzana]] (USA) -- [[Andreas Bedenbender]] (Germany) -- [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (USA) -- [[Daniel Boyarin]] (USA)

* [[Calum M. Carmichael]] (USA) -- [[James H. Charlesworth]] (USA) -- [[Esther G. Chazon]] (Israel) -- [[Randall D. Chesnutt]] (USA) -- [[Sabino Chialà]] (Italy) -- [[John J. Collins]] (USA) -- [[Adela Yarbro Collins]] (USA)

* [[Michael Daise]] (USA) -- [[James R. Davila]] (Scotland) -- [[Devorah Dimant]] (Israel) -- [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] (Canada) -- [[Lutz Doering]] (England) -- [[Henryk Drawnel]] (Poland)

* [[Kathy Ehrensperger]] (Wales) -- [[Torleif Elgvin]] (Norway) -- [[J. Harold Ellens]] (USA) -- [[Esther Eshel]] (Israel) -- [[Hanan Eshel]] (Israel)

* [[Crispin Fletcher-Louis]] (England) -- [[Steven D. Fraade]] (USA) -- [[Ida Fröhlich]] (Hungary)

* [[Gabriella Gelardini]] (Switzerland) -- [[Charles A. Gieschen]] (USA) -- [[Claudio Gianotto]] (Italy) -- [[Lester L. Grabbe]] (England)

* [[Matthias Henze]] (USA) -- [[Martha Himmelfarb]] (USA)

* [[Giovanni Ibba]] (Italy)

* [[David R. Jackson]] (Australia)

* [[Michael A. Knibb]] (England) -- [[Klaus Koch]] (Germany) -- [[Robert A. Kraft]] (USA) -- [[Helge S. Kvanvig]] (Norway) -- [[Alexander Kulik]] (Israel)

* [[William R.G. Loader]] (Australia) -- [[Jared W. Ludlow]] (USA)

* [[Paul Mandel]] (Israel) -- [[Eric F. Mason]] (USA) -- [[Luca Mazzinghi]] (Italy)

* [[Hindy Najman]] (USA) -- [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] (USA) -- [[Rivka Nir]] (Israel) -- [[Eric Noffke]] (Italy)

* [[Gerbern S. Oegema]] (Canada) -- [[Isaac W. Oliver]] (USA) -- [[Andrei A. Orlov]] (USA)

* [[Laura C. Paladino]] (Italy) -- [[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]] (Denmark) -- [[Stephen Pfann]] (Israel) -- [[Pierluigi Piovanelli]] (Canada)

* [[Annette Yoshiko Reed]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin E. Reynolds]] (Canada) -- [[Jacques van Ruiten]] (Netherlands)

* [[Paolo Sacchi]] (Italy) -- [[Lawrence H. Schiffman]] (USA) -- [[Carlos A. Segovia]] (Spain) -- [[Shayna Sheinfeld]] (USA) -- [[Michael E. Stone]] (Israel) -- [[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]] (Germany) -- [[David W. Suter]] (USA)

* [[Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar]] (Netherlands)

* [[James C. VanderKam]] (USA) -- [[Pieter M. Venter]] (South Africa)

* [[James Waddell]] (USA) -- [[Archie T. Wright]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin G. Wright]] (USA)

* [[Ziony Zevit]] (USA) -- [[Jason M. Zurawski]] (USA)

==Guidelines for Organizing an Enoch Seminar==

The Enoch Seminar is meant to be a meeting of between 50-80 people (as compared to the Nangeroni Meetings which are designed to have 25-35 participants). It includes:

- 12 major paper authors
- 12 major paper respondents
- 24 short paper authors
- Up to 6 reading sessions chairs

Organizing an Enoch Seminar is a 4-step process

*First Step: An Enoch Seminar Member(s) proposes a topic, which then must be approved by the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors.
**Timeframe: 2 years prior to date of proposed Enoch Seminar

*Second Step: The appointed chair(s) of the Enoch Seminar should gather a group of at least 5-10 colleagues, who are committed to participate in the Meeting and collaborate on its organization. At this point, an email will be sent to the Enoch Seminar members, announcing the proposal and asking those who are particularly interested in the topic to join the organization of the Meeting.
**Timeframe: 1.5 years prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

*Third Step: The appointed chair(s) must present the final schedule, including the major authors and paper topics to the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors for final approval.
**Timeframe: 1 year prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

*Fourth Step: The Enoch Seminar Board of Directors will announce and advertise the program and registration for the Enoch Seminar until the maximum number of participants (50-80) is reached.
**Timeframe: 8-6 months prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

==External links==
*[http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Website]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_seminar Wikipedia]

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[[File:Palazzo Corsi Salviati.jpg|thumb|200px|[[First Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Corsi Salviati, Florence, Italy (2001)]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, Founder of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Palazzo Sullam.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Second Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Sullam, Venice, Italy (2003)]]
[[File:Bautch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward's University, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Monastero Camaldoli.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Third Enoch Seminar|Third]], [[Fourth Enoch Seminar|Fourth]], and [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]], at the Monastery of Camaldoli, Italy (2005, 2007, 2013)]]
[[File:Stuckenbruck.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Cappella Cangiani.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Fifth Enoch Seminar]], at Cappella Cangiati, Naples, Italy (2009)]]
[[File:2016 Stuckenbruck Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume|2016]]]]
[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Sixth Enoch Seminar|Sixth]] and [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]], at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy (2011, 2015)]]
[[File:2016 Boccaccini Zurawski.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2014]]]]
[[File:2013 Henze Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2013]]]]
[[File:2Enoch Orlov Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|2012]]

[[File:2009 Boccaccini Ibba.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume|2009]]]]

[[File:2007 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume|2007]]]]
[[File:2007 Boccaccini Collins.jpg|thumb|150px|2007]]
[[File:2005b Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|150px|2005]]
[[File:2005 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume|2005]]]]

The '''Enoch Seminar''' is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, who share the results of their research in the field and meet to discuss topics of common interest. In addition to the biennial ''Enoch Seminars'', the group has launched three other series of international meetings: the biennial [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (since 2006), the yearly [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (since 2012), and the occasional [[Enoch Colloquia]] (since 2017). The group also runs an online journal ([http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Online]), [http://www.4enoch.org 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism] (since 2009), and the yearly [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]] (since 2012).

==History==

Founded in 2001 by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], the Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile to the Bar-Kochba revolt—the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism have their roots. The goal is to tear down the misleading walls of separation that still divide this field of research, recovering the unity and integrity of the period. Enoch is the symbol of this inter-canonical and inter-disciplinary effort, as he is present of each and all the canons that anachronistically divide sources from the period: Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, etc.

Participation at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who have completed their PhD. To graduate students and PhD candidates, the Enoch Seminar offers a biennial meeting (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).

The Enoch Seminar is chaired by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan) and is made possible by fundings from the University of Michigan and from the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment.

Enoch Seminar Board of Directors:
*[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, USA
*[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward’s University, USA
*[[Lorenzo DiTommaso]], Concordia University Montreal, Canada
*[[Esther Eshel]], Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*[[Matthias Henze]], Rice University, USA
*[[Pierluigi Piovanelli]], University of Ottawa, Canada
*[[Carlos A. Segovia]], Camilo José Cela University, Spain
*[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Germany
*[[Jason M. Zurawski]], University of Groningen, Netherlands

==Meetings (chronology)==

====2001====

*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''

====2003====

*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''

====2005====

*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''

====2006====

*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2007====

*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''

====2008====

*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2009====

*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''

====2010====

*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2011====

*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''

====2012====

*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2013====

*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2014====

*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2015====

*2015 (June 15–19; Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?''
*2015 (June; Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''
*2015 (June; Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2015 (Nov; Atlanta, GA) - 4th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2016====

*2016 (May; Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Jun; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Jun; Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2016 (Nov; San Antonio, TX) - 5th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2017====

*2017 (Jun 11-16; Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2017 (Jun 18-23; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]]: ''From tôrāh to the Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''
*2017 (Nov 16-18; Boston, MA) - [[1st Enoch Colloquium]] and 6th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2018====

*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - Seventh Enoch Graduate Seminar
*2018 (June 10-15; Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (June 17-22; Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]:''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2018 (Nov 17-20; Denver, CO) - 7th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2019====

*2019 (June 9-14; Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''
*2019 (June 16-20; Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2019 (Nov 23-26; San Diego, CA) - 8th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2020====

*2020 (June 29 - July 2; Worldwide) - [[2020 Enoch Seminar Online]]: ''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity''
*2020 (Nov 21-24; Boston, MA) - Fourth Enoch Colloquium and 9th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2021====

*2021 (May 23-28; Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''
*2021 (June 6-10; Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''
*2021 (July 18-22; Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''

====2022====

* Rome - John the Baptist

====2023====

* Milan --

====2024====

* Rome --

====2025====

* Milan

====2026====

* Rome

*[[The Jewish Origins of Christian Worship, from Paul to Tertullian]] (Padoa, 8-12 June, 2020)
**Francesco Pieri
**Paul F. Bradshaw
**Maxwell Johnson - University of Notre Dame
**Bryan D. Spinks - Yale University
**Andrew B. McGowan, ''Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological''
**Larry Hurtado,
**Daniel Boyarin
**Enrico Norelli
**Romano Penna
**Marcel Metzger (France - University of Strasburg)
**Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship (eds. Albert Gerhards & Clemens Leonhard) Brill 2007
**Clemens Leonhardt, The Jewish Pesach and the Origin of the Christian Easter (2006)
**Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt (Leiden University) Didache

==Meetings of the Enoch Seminar (2001-)==

*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''
**[[The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''
**[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''
**[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''
**[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume]]
**[[Enoch and Jubilees (2009 Bertalotto/Hanneken), edited volume]]

*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
**[[New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012 Orlov, Boccaccini), edited volume]]
**[[Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam (2011 Zurawski), edited volume]]

*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''
**[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
**[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]

*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
**[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''

*2017 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]] - ''From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''

*2019 (Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]] - ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''

*2021 (Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]] - ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''

==Enoch Seminar [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (2012-)==

*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
**[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
**[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]
*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: "Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?"
*2015 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2016 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2017 (Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2018 (Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (Rome, Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2019 (Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2020 (Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''
*2021 (Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''

==Meetings of the [[Enoch Colloquia]] (2017-)==

*2017 (Cambridge, MA, USA; November)
*2018 (Denver, CO;November)

<in preparation>
*2020 (Boston, MA, USA; November)

==Meetings of the [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (2006-)==

*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

<In preparation:>
*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
*2020 (Boston, MA)

==Enoch Seminar Receptions at the SBL (2012-) ==

*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st SBL Annual Meeting
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd SBL Annual Meeting
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd SBL Annual Meeting
*2015 (Atlanta, GA) - 4th SBL Annual Meeting
*2016 (San Antonio, TX) - 5th SBL Annual Meeting
*2017 (Boston, MA) - 6th SBL Annual Meeting

<In preparation:>
*2018 (Denver, CO) - 7th SBL Annual Meeting
*2019 (San Diego, CA) - 8th SBL Annual Meeting

==Publications from the Enoch Seminar==

#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Turin: Zamorani, 2005) [=Henoch
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005)
#The First Enoch Graduate Seminar at the University of Michigan: 1. Angels and Demons (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2006) [=Henoch 28.2 (2006)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins (eds.), The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba (eds.), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
#Gabriele Boccaccini, Pierpaolo Bertalotto and Todd Hanneken (eds.), Enoch and Jubilees (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009) [=Henoch 31.1 (2009)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.1 (2011)]
# Across the Jewish-Christian Divide: Perspectives from the Enoch Graduate Seminar of Budapest (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.2 (2011)]
#Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
#Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
#[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
#[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]

=="The [[Enoch Seminar]]", an article by Philip Jenkins (30 May 2016)==

One of the most exciting areas today in Biblical scholarship (broadly defined) is the Enoch Seminar. Founded in 2001, it originally focused on the literature associated with the patriarch Enoch, but has since branched out massively, almost to become a field in its own right. The changing limits of that field are fascinating, both for their present state and their emerging dimensions.

The main Seminar meetings occur regularly in a variety of international settings, and are strictly intended for credentialed scholars, by invitation only. The actual roster of experts varies widely on each occasion, but with some continuity. Since 2006, there is also a graduate seminar that meets every two years, most recently last week in Austin TX, where I had the privilege of serving as a faculty mentor.
So what does the Enoch Seminar do? It describes its topic areas as “Second Temple Judaism, Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins,” and that staggeringly broad reach is deliberate. The basic theme is that the Jewish world between, say, 300 BC and 200 AD, included a great many ideas and themes, some of which fit well into standard and orthodox views of Jewish history, but others would be viewed as Christian, Jewish-Christian, Gnostic or Jewish-sectarian.

At the time, though, those various ingredients all belonged in one common cauldron of ideas, without hard boundaries separating them. Nor was it obvious which elements were going to become components of world religions, and which would be consigned to obscure heresies. The more you investigate this period, moreover, the more absurd become the traditional divisions that scholars once drew about which texts were “more Jewish,” and which Gentile or Hellenistic. (See for instance 150 years of debate on the Gospel of John).
One theme that emerges repeatedly: just because an idea or theme does not fit within the mold of later Rabbinic Judaism does not mean that its origins were not thoroughly Jewish.

This is, in fact, one of the most critical eras in the history of religion. It also left a vast range of writings, including standard Jewish and Christian texts, but also a range of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. You get a sense of the scope we are dealing with here from the various edited volumes that have emerged from the Seminar. In 2009, for instance, the main Seminar met in Italy, and its discussions appeared under the title New Perspectives on 2 Enoch, edited by Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini. In 2012, again, the Seminar pursued the theme The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, and that is now the title of the just published collection, edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski. For anyone working in the areas of early Jewish history and Christian origins, these collections are just indispensable.

To see what younger scholars are up to now, you can check out the titles of the recent Austin papers here. I stress, just the titles, not the full-length papers. All are very much works in progress, and the authors don’t want to give public access to works that are still in the course of development. Nor, understandably, do they want other people purloining their ideas before they can be properly published. But the list of topics is very wide, and deeply impressive, as was the dazzling diversity of themes. And so was the level of execution and presentation. If this is the next scholarly generation, this is wonderful news.

I had my own particular favorites from the papers presented, but won’t embarrass the ones I select or ignore!
One question that does occur. Just glance at the range of eras, themes and societies covered in this conference. How on earth would we find a single overarching description for all these, if we did not use the convenience term “Enochic”?

If you trace the Enoch field through the past sixteen years, it is intriguing to see the directions in which research has been leading, logically and almost inevitably. Today, the main area of focus is shifting to Islamic origins, and the roots of Islam in Jewish and Christian soil. If recent seminars are anything to go by, watch for major insights and unsuspected connections in that area.
And where next, we ask?

If you want to see the cutting edge actually cutting, this is where it is happening.

== Participants ==

Here are the names of international scholars who have attended three or more meetings of the Enoch Seminar. A detailed list of participants is offered in [[Enoch Seminar Participants]].

==== Veterans ====

* [[Luca Arcari]] (Italy) -- [[Daniel Assefa]] (Ethiopia)

* [[Florentina Badalanova Geller]] (Germany) -- [[Albert I. Baumgarten]] (Israel) -- [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]] (USA) -- [[Giovanni Bazzana]] (USA) -- [[Andreas Bedenbender]] (Germany) -- [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (USA) -- [[Daniel Boyarin]] (USA)

* [[Calum M. Carmichael]] (USA) -- [[James H. Charlesworth]] (USA) -- [[Esther G. Chazon]] (Israel) -- [[Randall D. Chesnutt]] (USA) -- [[Sabino Chialà]] (Italy) -- [[John J. Collins]] (USA) -- [[Adela Yarbro Collins]] (USA)

* [[Michael Daise]] (USA) -- [[James R. Davila]] (Scotland) -- [[Devorah Dimant]] (Israel) -- [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] (Canada) -- [[Lutz Doering]] (England) -- [[Henryk Drawnel]] (Poland)

* [[Kathy Ehrensperger]] (Wales) -- [[Torleif Elgvin]] (Norway) -- [[J. Harold Ellens]] (USA) -- [[Esther Eshel]] (Israel) -- [[Hanan Eshel]] (Israel)

* [[Crispin Fletcher-Louis]] (England) -- [[Steven D. Fraade]] (USA) -- [[Ida Fröhlich]] (Hungary)

* [[Gabriella Gelardini]] (Switzerland) -- [[Charles A. Gieschen]] (USA) -- [[Claudio Gianotto]] (Italy) -- [[Lester L. Grabbe]] (England)

* [[Matthias Henze]] (USA) -- [[Martha Himmelfarb]] (USA)

* [[Giovanni Ibba]] (Italy)

* [[David R. Jackson]] (Australia)

* [[Michael A. Knibb]] (England) -- [[Klaus Koch]] (Germany) -- [[Robert A. Kraft]] (USA) -- [[Helge S. Kvanvig]] (Norway) -- [[Alexander Kulik]] (Israel)

* [[William R.G. Loader]] (Australia) -- [[Jared W. Ludlow]] (USA)

* [[Paul Mandel]] (Israel) -- [[Eric F. Mason]] (USA) -- [[Luca Mazzinghi]] (Italy)

* [[Hindy Najman]] (USA) -- [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] (USA) -- [[Rivka Nir]] (Israel) -- [[Eric Noffke]] (Italy)

* [[Gerbern S. Oegema]] (Canada) -- [[Isaac W. Oliver]] (USA) -- [[Andrei A. Orlov]] (USA)

* [[Laura C. Paladino]] (Italy) -- [[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]] (Denmark) -- [[Stephen Pfann]] (Israel) -- [[Pierluigi Piovanelli]] (Canada)

* [[Annette Yoshiko Reed]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin E. Reynolds]] (Canada) -- [[Jacques van Ruiten]] (Netherlands)

* [[Paolo Sacchi]] (Italy) -- [[Lawrence H. Schiffman]] (USA) -- [[Carlos A. Segovia]] (Spain) -- [[Shayna Sheinfeld]] (USA) -- [[Michael E. Stone]] (Israel) -- [[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]] (Germany) -- [[David W. Suter]] (USA)

* [[Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar]] (Netherlands)

* [[James C. VanderKam]] (USA) -- [[Pieter M. Venter]] (South Africa)

* [[James Waddell]] (USA) -- [[Archie T. Wright]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin G. Wright]] (USA)

* [[Ziony Zevit]] (USA) -- [[Jason M. Zurawski]] (USA)

==Guidelines for Organizing an Enoch Seminar==

The Enoch Seminar is meant to be a meeting of between 50-80 people (as compared to the Nangeroni Meetings which are designed to have 25-35 participants). It includes:

- 12 major paper authors
- 12 major paper respondents
- 24 short paper authors
- Up to 6 reading sessions chairs

Organizing an Enoch Seminar is a 4-step process

*First Step: An Enoch Seminar Member(s) proposes a topic, which then must be approved by the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors.
**Timeframe: 2 years prior to date of proposed Enoch Seminar

*Second Step: The appointed chair(s) of the Enoch Seminar should gather a group of at least 5-10 colleagues, who are committed to participate in the Meeting and collaborate on its organization. At this point, an email will be sent to the Enoch Seminar members, announcing the proposal and asking those who are particularly interested in the topic to join the organization of the Meeting.
**Timeframe: 1.5 years prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

*Third Step: The appointed chair(s) must present the final schedule, including the major authors and paper topics to the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors for final approval.
**Timeframe: 1 year prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

*Fourth Step: The Enoch Seminar Board of Directors will announce and advertise the program and registration for the Enoch Seminar until the maximum number of participants (50-80) is reached.
**Timeframe: 8-6 months prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

==External links==
*[http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Website]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_seminar Wikipedia]

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[[File:Palazzo Corsi Salviati.jpg|thumb|200px|[[First Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Corsi Salviati, Florence, Italy (2001)]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, Founder of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Palazzo Sullam.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Second Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Sullam, Venice, Italy (2003)]]
[[File:Bautch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward's University, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Monastero Camaldoli.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Third Enoch Seminar|Third]], [[Fourth Enoch Seminar|Fourth]], and [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]], at the Monastery of Camaldoli, Italy (2005, 2007, 2013)]]
[[File:Stuckenbruck.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Cappella Cangiani.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Fifth Enoch Seminar]], at Cappella Cangiati, Naples, Italy (2009)]]
[[File:2016 Stuckenbruck Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume|2016]]]]
[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Sixth Enoch Seminar|Sixth]] and [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]], at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy (2011, 2015)]]
[[File:2016 Boccaccini Zurawski.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2014]]]]
[[File:2013 Henze Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2013]]]]
[[File:2Enoch Orlov Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|2012]]

[[File:2009 Boccaccini Ibba.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume|2009]]]]

[[File:2007 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume|2007]]]]
[[File:2007 Boccaccini Collins.jpg|thumb|150px|2007]]
[[File:2005b Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|150px|2005]]
[[File:2005 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume|2005]]]]

The '''Enoch Seminar''' is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, who share the results of their research in the field and meet to discuss topics of common interest. In addition to the biennial ''Enoch Seminars'', the group has launched three other series of international meetings: the biennial [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (since 2006), the yearly [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (since 2012), and the occasional [[Enoch Colloquia]] (since 2017). The group also runs an online journal ([http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Online]), [http://www.4enoch.org 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism] (since 2009), and the yearly [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]] (since 2012).

==History==

Founded in 2001 by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], the Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile to the Bar-Kochba revolt—the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism have their roots. The goal is to tear down the misleading walls of separation that still divide this field of research, recovering the unity and integrity of the period. Enoch is the symbol of this inter-canonical and inter-disciplinary effort, as he is present of each and all the canons that anachronistically divide sources from the period: Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, etc.

Participation at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who have completed their PhD. To graduate students and PhD candidates, the Enoch Seminar offers a biennial meeting (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).

The Enoch Seminar is chaired by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan) and is made possible by fundings from the University of Michigan and from the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment.

Enoch Seminar Board of Directors:
*[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, USA
*[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward’s University, USA
*[[Lorenzo DiTommaso]], Concordia University Montreal, Canada
*[[Esther Eshel]], Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*[[Matthias Henze]], Rice University, USA
*[[Pierluigi Piovanelli]], University of Ottawa, Canada
*[[Carlos A. Segovia]], Camilo José Cela University, Spain
*[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Germany
*[[Jason M. Zurawski]], University of Groningen, Netherlands

==Meetings (chronology)==

====2001====

*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''

====2003====

*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''

====2005====

*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''

====2006====

*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2007====

*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''

====2008====

*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2009====

*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''

====2010====

*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

====2011====

*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''

====2012====

*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2013====

*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2014====

*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2015====

*2015 (June 15–19; Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?''
*2015 (June; Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''
*2015 (June; Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2015 (Nov; Atlanta, GA) - 4th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2016====

*2016 (May; Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Jun; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Jun; Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2016 (Nov; San Antonio, TX) - 5th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2017====

*2017 (Jun 11-16; Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2017 (Jun 18-23; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]]: ''From tôrāh to the Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''
*2017 (Nov 16-18; Boston, MA) - [[1st Enoch Colloquium]] and 6th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2018====

*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - Seventh Enoch Graduate Seminar
*2018 (June 10-15; Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (June 17-22; Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]:''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2018 (Nov 17-20; Denver, CO) - 7th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2019====

*2019 (June 9-14; Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''
*2019 (June 16-20; Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2019 (Nov 23-26; San Diego, CA) - 8th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2020====

*2020 (June 29 - July 2; Worldwide) - [[2020 Enoch Seminar Online]]: ''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity''
*2020 (Nov 21-24; Boston, MA) - Fourth Enoch Colloquium and 9th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]

====2021====

*2021 (May 23-28; Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''
*2021 (Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''
*2021 (June 6-10; Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''

====2022====

* Rome - John the Baptist

====2023====

* Milan --

====2024====

* Rome --

====2025====

* Milan

====2026====

* Rome

*[[The Jewish Origins of Christian Worship, from Paul to Tertullian]] (Padoa, 8-12 June, 2020)
**Francesco Pieri
**Paul F. Bradshaw
**Maxwell Johnson - University of Notre Dame
**Bryan D. Spinks - Yale University
**Andrew B. McGowan, ''Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological''
**Larry Hurtado,
**Daniel Boyarin
**Enrico Norelli
**Romano Penna
**Marcel Metzger (France - University of Strasburg)
**Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship (eds. Albert Gerhards & Clemens Leonhard) Brill 2007
**Clemens Leonhardt, The Jewish Pesach and the Origin of the Christian Easter (2006)
**Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt (Leiden University) Didache

==Meetings of the Enoch Seminar (2001-)==

*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''
**[[The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''
**[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''
**[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''
**[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume]]
**[[Enoch and Jubilees (2009 Bertalotto/Hanneken), edited volume]]

*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
**[[New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012 Orlov, Boccaccini), edited volume]]
**[[Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam (2011 Zurawski), edited volume]]

*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''
**[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
**[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]

*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
**[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume]]

*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''

*2017 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]] - ''From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''

*2019 (Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]] - ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''

*2021 (Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]] - ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''

==Enoch Seminar [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (2012-)==

*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
**[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
**[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]
*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: "Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?"
*2015 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2016 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2017 (Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2018 (Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (Rome, Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2019 (Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2020 (Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''
*2021 (Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''

==Meetings of the [[Enoch Colloquia]] (2017-)==

*2017 (Cambridge, MA, USA; November)
*2018 (Denver, CO;November)

<in preparation>
*2020 (Boston, MA, USA; November)

==Meetings of the [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (2006-)==

*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]

<In preparation:>
*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
*2020 (Boston, MA)

==Enoch Seminar Receptions at the SBL (2012-) ==

*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st SBL Annual Meeting
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd SBL Annual Meeting
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd SBL Annual Meeting
*2015 (Atlanta, GA) - 4th SBL Annual Meeting
*2016 (San Antonio, TX) - 5th SBL Annual Meeting
*2017 (Boston, MA) - 6th SBL Annual Meeting

<In preparation:>
*2018 (Denver, CO) - 7th SBL Annual Meeting
*2019 (San Diego, CA) - 8th SBL Annual Meeting

==Publications from the Enoch Seminar==

#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Turin: Zamorani, 2005) [=Henoch
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005)
#The First Enoch Graduate Seminar at the University of Michigan: 1. Angels and Demons (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2006) [=Henoch 28.2 (2006)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins (eds.), The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba (eds.), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
#Gabriele Boccaccini, Pierpaolo Bertalotto and Todd Hanneken (eds.), Enoch and Jubilees (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009) [=Henoch 31.1 (2009)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.1 (2011)]
# Across the Jewish-Christian Divide: Perspectives from the Enoch Graduate Seminar of Budapest (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.2 (2011)]
#Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
#Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
#[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
#[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]

=="The [[Enoch Seminar]]", an article by Philip Jenkins (30 May 2016)==

One of the most exciting areas today in Biblical scholarship (broadly defined) is the Enoch Seminar. Founded in 2001, it originally focused on the literature associated with the patriarch Enoch, but has since branched out massively, almost to become a field in its own right. The changing limits of that field are fascinating, both for their present state and their emerging dimensions.

The main Seminar meetings occur regularly in a variety of international settings, and are strictly intended for credentialed scholars, by invitation only. The actual roster of experts varies widely on each occasion, but with some continuity. Since 2006, there is also a graduate seminar that meets every two years, most recently last week in Austin TX, where I had the privilege of serving as a faculty mentor.
So what does the Enoch Seminar do? It describes its topic areas as “Second Temple Judaism, Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins,” and that staggeringly broad reach is deliberate. The basic theme is that the Jewish world between, say, 300 BC and 200 AD, included a great many ideas and themes, some of which fit well into standard and orthodox views of Jewish history, but others would be viewed as Christian, Jewish-Christian, Gnostic or Jewish-sectarian.

At the time, though, those various ingredients all belonged in one common cauldron of ideas, without hard boundaries separating them. Nor was it obvious which elements were going to become components of world religions, and which would be consigned to obscure heresies. The more you investigate this period, moreover, the more absurd become the traditional divisions that scholars once drew about which texts were “more Jewish,” and which Gentile or Hellenistic. (See for instance 150 years of debate on the Gospel of John).
One theme that emerges repeatedly: just because an idea or theme does not fit within the mold of later Rabbinic Judaism does not mean that its origins were not thoroughly Jewish.

This is, in fact, one of the most critical eras in the history of religion. It also left a vast range of writings, including standard Jewish and Christian texts, but also a range of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. You get a sense of the scope we are dealing with here from the various edited volumes that have emerged from the Seminar. In 2009, for instance, the main Seminar met in Italy, and its discussions appeared under the title New Perspectives on 2 Enoch, edited by Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini. In 2012, again, the Seminar pursued the theme The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, and that is now the title of the just published collection, edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski. For anyone working in the areas of early Jewish history and Christian origins, these collections are just indispensable.

To see what younger scholars are up to now, you can check out the titles of the recent Austin papers here. I stress, just the titles, not the full-length papers. All are very much works in progress, and the authors don’t want to give public access to works that are still in the course of development. Nor, understandably, do they want other people purloining their ideas before they can be properly published. But the list of topics is very wide, and deeply impressive, as was the dazzling diversity of themes. And so was the level of execution and presentation. If this is the next scholarly generation, this is wonderful news.

I had my own particular favorites from the papers presented, but won’t embarrass the ones I select or ignore!
One question that does occur. Just glance at the range of eras, themes and societies covered in this conference. How on earth would we find a single overarching description for all these, if we did not use the convenience term “Enochic”?

If you trace the Enoch field through the past sixteen years, it is intriguing to see the directions in which research has been leading, logically and almost inevitably. Today, the main area of focus is shifting to Islamic origins, and the roots of Islam in Jewish and Christian soil. If recent seminars are anything to go by, watch for major insights and unsuspected connections in that area.
And where next, we ask?

If you want to see the cutting edge actually cutting, this is where it is happening.

== Participants ==

Here are the names of international scholars who have attended three or more meetings of the Enoch Seminar. A detailed list of participants is offered in [[Enoch Seminar Participants]].

==== Veterans ====

* [[Luca Arcari]] (Italy) -- [[Daniel Assefa]] (Ethiopia)

* [[Florentina Badalanova Geller]] (Germany) -- [[Albert I. Baumgarten]] (Israel) -- [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]] (USA) -- [[Giovanni Bazzana]] (USA) -- [[Andreas Bedenbender]] (Germany) -- [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (USA) -- [[Daniel Boyarin]] (USA)

* [[Calum M. Carmichael]] (USA) -- [[James H. Charlesworth]] (USA) -- [[Esther G. Chazon]] (Israel) -- [[Randall D. Chesnutt]] (USA) -- [[Sabino Chialà]] (Italy) -- [[John J. Collins]] (USA) -- [[Adela Yarbro Collins]] (USA)

* [[Michael Daise]] (USA) -- [[James R. Davila]] (Scotland) -- [[Devorah Dimant]] (Israel) -- [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] (Canada) -- [[Lutz Doering]] (England) -- [[Henryk Drawnel]] (Poland)

* [[Kathy Ehrensperger]] (Wales) -- [[Torleif Elgvin]] (Norway) -- [[J. Harold Ellens]] (USA) -- [[Esther Eshel]] (Israel) -- [[Hanan Eshel]] (Israel)

* [[Crispin Fletcher-Louis]] (England) -- [[Steven D. Fraade]] (USA) -- [[Ida Fröhlich]] (Hungary)

* [[Gabriella Gelardini]] (Switzerland) -- [[Charles A. Gieschen]] (USA) -- [[Claudio Gianotto]] (Italy) -- [[Lester L. Grabbe]] (England)

* [[Matthias Henze]] (USA) -- [[Martha Himmelfarb]] (USA)

* [[Giovanni Ibba]] (Italy)

* [[David R. Jackson]] (Australia)

* [[Michael A. Knibb]] (England) -- [[Klaus Koch]] (Germany) -- [[Robert A. Kraft]] (USA) -- [[Helge S. Kvanvig]] (Norway) -- [[Alexander Kulik]] (Israel)

* [[William R.G. Loader]] (Australia) -- [[Jared W. Ludlow]] (USA)

* [[Paul Mandel]] (Israel) -- [[Eric F. Mason]] (USA) -- [[Luca Mazzinghi]] (Italy)

* [[Hindy Najman]] (USA) -- [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] (USA) -- [[Rivka Nir]] (Israel) -- [[Eric Noffke]] (Italy)

* [[Gerbern S. Oegema]] (Canada) -- [[Isaac W. Oliver]] (USA) -- [[Andrei A. Orlov]] (USA)

* [[Laura C. Paladino]] (Italy) -- [[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]] (Denmark) -- [[Stephen Pfann]] (Israel) -- [[Pierluigi Piovanelli]] (Canada)

* [[Annette Yoshiko Reed]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin E. Reynolds]] (Canada) -- [[Jacques van Ruiten]] (Netherlands)

* [[Paolo Sacchi]] (Italy) -- [[Lawrence H. Schiffman]] (USA) -- [[Carlos A. Segovia]] (Spain) -- [[Shayna Sheinfeld]] (USA) -- [[Michael E. Stone]] (Israel) -- [[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]] (Germany) -- [[David W. Suter]] (USA)

* [[Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar]] (Netherlands)

* [[James C. VanderKam]] (USA) -- [[Pieter M. Venter]] (South Africa)

* [[James Waddell]] (USA) -- [[Archie T. Wright]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin G. Wright]] (USA)

* [[Ziony Zevit]] (USA) -- [[Jason M. Zurawski]] (USA)

==Guidelines for Organizing an Enoch Seminar==

The Enoch Seminar is meant to be a meeting of between 50-80 people (as compared to the Nangeroni Meetings which are designed to have 25-35 participants). It includes:

- 12 major paper authors
- 12 major paper respondents
- 24 short paper authors
- Up to 6 reading sessions chairs

Organizing an Enoch Seminar is a 4-step process

*First Step: An Enoch Seminar Member(s) proposes a topic, which then must be approved by the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors.
**Timeframe: 2 years prior to date of proposed Enoch Seminar

*Second Step: The appointed chair(s) of the Enoch Seminar should gather a group of at least 5-10 colleagues, who are committed to participate in the Meeting and collaborate on its organization. At this point, an email will be sent to the Enoch Seminar members, announcing the proposal and asking those who are particularly interested in the topic to join the organization of the Meeting.
**Timeframe: 1.5 years prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

*Third Step: The appointed chair(s) must present the final schedule, including the major authors and paper topics to the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors for final approval.
**Timeframe: 1 year prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

*Fourth Step: The Enoch Seminar Board of Directors will announce and advertise the program and registration for the Enoch Seminar until the maximum number of participants (50-80) is reached.
**Timeframe: 8-6 months prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

==External links==
*[http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Website]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_seminar Wikipedia]

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Nangeroni Meetings

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Jason Zurawski: /* List of Nangeroni Meetings */

[[File:Alessandro Nangeroni.jpg|thumb|150px|Alessandro Nangeroni (1940-1999)]]
[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|left|200px|1st & 4th Nangeroni Meetings, at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy (2012, 2015)]]
[[File:Caesarea.jpg|thumb|200px|left|2nd Nangeroni Meeting, at Dor, near Caesarea Israel (2014)]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], founding director of the Nangeroni Meetings]]
[[File:Facolta Valdese.jpg|thumb|left|200px|3rd & 7th Nangeroni Meetings, at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology, Rome, Italy (2014, 2016)]]
[[File:2016 Boccaccini Segovia.jpg|thumb|150px|3rd Nangeroni Meeting proceedings (2016)]]
[[File:University Naples.jpg|thumb|left|200px|5th Nangeroni Meeting, at Naples, Italy (2015)]]
[[File:Monastero Camaldoli.jpg|thumb|left|200px|6th Nangeroni Meeting, at Camaldoli, Italy (2016)]]
[[File:2016 Grabbe Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|150px|1st Nangeroni Meeting proceedings (2016)]]
[[File:Demidoff Country Resort.jpg|thumb|left|200px|8th Nangeroni Meetings, at the Demidoff Country Resort, Pratolino, near Florence, Italy (2017)]]

The '''Nangeroni Meetings''' (2012-) are a series of small-size international seminars promoted by the [[Enoch Seminar]], in collaboration with the [[Department of Near Eastern Studies]] of the [[University of Michigan]], the [[Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment]] and the [[Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies]]

< [[First Nangeroni Meeting|1st (Milan 2012)]] -- [[Second Nangeroni Meeting|2nd (Israel 2014)]] -- [[Third Nangeroni Meeting|3rd (Rome 2014)]] -- [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting|4th (Milan 2015)]] -- [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting|5th (Naples 2015)]] -- [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting|6th (Camaldoli 2016)]] -- [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting|7th (Rome 2016)]] -- [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting|8th (Florence 2017)]] -- [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting|9th (Milan 2018)]] -- [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting|10th (Rome,2018)]] -- [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting|11th (Milan 2019)]], [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting|12th (Berlin 2020)]] >

==Overview==

Thanks to the contribution of the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment, a series of seminars on Jewish, Christian and Muslim origins was launched by the [[Enoch Seminar]], starting from the year 2012.

==List of Nangeroni Meetings==

*1. [[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview / 1st Nangeroni Meeting (2012 Milan), conference]]

*2. [[Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission / 2nd Nangeroni Meeting (2014 Dor), conference]]

*3. [[Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author / 3rd Nangeroni Meeting (2014 Rome), conference]]

*4. [[Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity? / 4th Nangeroni Meeting (2015 Milan), conference]]

*5. [[Second Temple Jewish Paideia in its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts / 5th Nangeroni Meeting (2015 Naples), conference]]

*6. [[John the Jew: Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as a Form of Jewish Messianism / 6th Nangeroni Meeting (2016 Camaldoli), conference]]

*7. [[The Early Reception of Paul the Jew / 7th Nangeroni Meeting (2016 Rome), conference]]

*8. [[New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins / 8th Nangeroni Meeting (2017 Florence), conference]]

*9. [[The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE) / 9th Nangeroni Meeting (2018 Milan), conference]]

*10. [[Gender and Second Temple Judaism / 10th Nangeroni Meeting (2018 Rome), conference]]

*11. [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting (2019 Gazzada), conference|The Study of Islamic Origins / 11th Nangeroni Meeting (2019 Milan), conference]]

*12. [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting (2021 Berlin), conference|Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity / 12th Nangeroni Meeting (2021 Berlin), conference]]

13. On Sibylline Oracles (Naples, 2021)

14. Virtus and Humanitas: Virtues and Values in Greco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Paideia at the Turn of the Cpmmon Era. (May 29 - June 3, 2022).

==Guidelines for Organizing a Nangeroni Meeting==

The Nangeroni Meeting is meant to be a meeting of around 30 scholars (as compared to the Enoch Seminars which are designed to have 50-80 participants). It includes:

* 6-7 major paper authors
* 6-7 major paper respondents
* 12-16 short paper authors
* Up to 4 reading sessions chairs

Organizing a Nangeroni Meeting is a 4-step process

*First Step: An Enoch Seminar Member(s) proposes a topic, which then must be approved by the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors.
**Timeframe: 2 years prior to date of proposed Nangeroni Meeting

*Second Step: The appointed chair(s) of the Nangeroni Meeting should gather a group of at least 5-10 colleagues, who are committed to participate in the Meeting and collaborate on its organization. At this point, an email will be sent to the Enoch Seminar members, announcing the proposal and asking those who are particularly interested in the topic to join the organization of the Meeting.
**Timeframe: 1.5 years prior to the date of the Nangeroni Meeting

*Third Step: The appointed chair(s) must present the final schedule, including the major authors and paper topics to the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors for final approval.
**Timeframe: 1 year prior to the date of the Nangeroni Meeting

*Fourth Step: The Enoch Seminar Board of Directors will announce and advertise the program and registration for the Nangeroni Meeting until the maximum number of participants (~35) is reached.
**Timeframe: 8-6 months prior to the date of the Nangeroni Meeting

==External links==

*[http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Website]

[[Category:Research tools]]
[[Category:Learned Societies|2012 Nangeroni Meetings]]
[[Category:Made in the 2010s|2012 Nangeroni Meetings]]
[[Category:Bible (subject)|2012 Nangeroni Meetings]]

Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting (2021 Berlin), conference

2020-05-27T13:40:17Z

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'''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''' (2021) is the topic of the twelfth conference in the series of [[Nangeroni Meetings]] organized by the [[Enoch Seminar]] in Berlin, Germany (July 18-22, 2021).

< [[First Nangeroni Meeting|1st (Milan 2012)]] -- [[Second Nangeroni Meeting|2nd (Israel 2014)]] -- [[Third Nangeroni Meeting|3rd (Rome 2014)]] -- [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting|4th (Milan 2015)]] -- [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting|5th (Naples 2015)]] -- [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting|6th (Camaldoli 2016)]] -- [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting|7th (Rome 2016)]] -- [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting|8th (Florence 2017)]] -- [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting|9th (Milan 2018)]] -- [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting|10th (Rome 2018)]] -- [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting|11th (Gazzada 2019)]] -- '''12th (Berlin 2020)''' >

==Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting (Berlin, Germany; July 18-22, 2021)==

Conference Committee: [[Shayna Sheinfeld]] and [[Kathy Ehrensperger]]; Conference Secretary: [[Joshua Scott]]

====Preliminary Information====

When: July 18-22, 2021

Location of Seminar: Humboldt University, Berlin

Purpose: Following up on the 10th Enoch Nangeroni Meeting on Gender and Second Temple Judaism (Rome, 2018), this seminar extends the research done in that earlier seminar in order to examine both the continuity and the shifts in the construction of gender as we move into the early 2nd–8th centuries. Our work together in this seminar emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary scholarly discussion across different time periods that are in many ways arbitrary and anachronistic. Participants in this seminar will utilize explicit methodology in their reconstruction of gender from the ancient textual and material sources in the areas of what we now call Judaism, Christianity, early Isalm, and Roman religions.

====Registration====

Participation in the Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting is by invitation only. If you are interested in joining the meeting, please contact the organizers.

The registration fee is $0-165, based on level of past participation in Enoch Seminar events.

Online registration will open soon.

====Accommodations====

Contribution for 4 nights, including breakfast and lunch, at Bonhoeffer Hotel:

Major paper authors: 0 euros

Respondents: 300 euros

Short paper authors & attendees: 400 euros

Guests staying in the same room: 300 euros

====Provisional Schedule====

'''Sunday, 18 July'''

''13:00 – 16:00'' Registration

''17:00'' Welcome & Opening (Session 1)
*Chairs: Kathy Ehrensperger, Shayna Sheinfeld

''20:00'' Dinner: Participants, spouses, and children welcome

'''Monday, 19 July'''

''09:00 – 10:45'' Session 2
*Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
**Bernadette Brooten, “Rabbinic Construals of Non-Binary Humans Brought into Conversation with Ancient Astrology and Medicine”
**Respondent

''11:15 – 13:00'' Session 3
*Session Chair: Kathy Ehrensperger
**Kecia Ali, “The Female Captive in Early Islamic Legal Sources”
**Respondent

''13:00 – 14:30'' Lunch: Participants, spouses, and children welcome

''14:30 – 16:15'' Session 4 – Short Papers

''Session 4.1''
*Session Chair: Al Baumgarten
**Saadia Yacoob, (gender & early Islamic law)
**Sara Parks, “Misogyny and Anti-Judaism at the Parting of the Ways
**Maia Kotrosis, “"The Promise of Arrival: Journeys, Gender, and the Transformative Potential of Elsewhere"
**Shayna Sheinfeld, “A Millstone Around the Neck: Marriage and Torah Study in the Talmud”

''Session 4.2''
*Session Chair:
**Catherine Bonesho, “Friend or Foe?: Cleopatra in Rabbinic Literature”
**Andrew Higginbotham, "Shush Salome, your brother Shimon is speaking!”: A Peculiar Pattern of Palestinian Passivation”
**Channah Fonseca-Quezada, “Unyielding: Analysis of Lilith and the woman of 4Q184”
**Alison Vacca, (early islam)

''16:45 – 18:30'' Session 5
*Session Chair:
**Jens Schröter, “Gender Construction in Apocryphal Gospels: Male and Female Apostles in the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary”
**Respondent: Matthew Anderson

''Late Reception''

''20:00'' Dinner on your own

'''Tuesday, 20 July'''

''09:00 – 10:45'' Session 6
*Session Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
**Peter Mena, “Performing Thecla: Gender Performance and the Theater in Ancient Christian Apocrypha”
**Respondent:

''11:15 – 13:00'' Session 7 – Short Papers
*Session Chair:
**Rachel Neis, (theorize late ancient Jewish gender, generation, and knowledge explicitly within the context of feminist science studies and feminist new materialisms)
**Lily Vuong, ““Virginity, Marriage, and Motherhood: Competing Models of the Ideal Feminine in the Acts of Thecla and Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena.”
**Matthew Hotham, (topic: women as tempters in early ascetic proto-sufi writings)
**Krista Dalton, “Torah and Testosterone: The Performativity of Rabbinic Expertise”

''13:00 – 14:30'' Lunch: Participants, spouses, and children welcome

''16:00 – 19:00'' Field Trip

''19:00'' Dinner on your own

'''Wednesday, 21 July'''

''09:00 – 10:45'' Session 8
*Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
**Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, “The literary construction of Gender: The figure of Ifra Hormiz in the Babylonian Talmud”
**Respondent:

''11:15 – 13:00'' Session 9 – Short Papers

''Session 9.1''
*Session Chair:
**Sarit Kattan Gribetz, “"Forget about Eve: Methodological Reflections about Studying Women in Antiquity."
**Angela Standhartinger, “Constructions of Eve in the Life of Adam and Eve and related literature”
**David Zakarian, “Eve in Early Christian Armenian Tradition”

''Session 9.2''
*Session Chair:
**Ilaria Ramelli, “Constructions of Gender in Origen of Alexandria”
**Sari Fein, “What Have You Against Me, Oh Man of God?”: Maternal Resistance in the Early Jewish Imagination.”
**Daniel Vorpahl, “The Body as a Wonderland: Descriptive Creation, Attribution and Transformation of Human Bodies as Acts of Gender Construction in Midrashic and Talmudic Literature”

''13:00 – 14:30'' Lunch: Participants, spouses, and children welcome

''14:30 – 17:00'' Session 10
*Session Chair: Kathy Ehrensperger
**Carly Daniel-Hughes, “Disciplining Christian Bodies: Animality, Gender and Corporeality in Clement of Alexandria”
**Respondent:

''18:00'' Public Event/Reception

''20:00'' Dinner on your own

'''Thursday, 22 July'''

''09:00 – 10:45'' Session 11
*Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
**Daniel Boyarin, “Was there "gender" in late-ancient Judaism?”
**Respondent:

''11:15 – 12:00'' Session 12 – Closing Thoughts
*Session Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kathy Ehrensperger, and Shayna Sheinfeld

''12:00 – 13:30'' Lunch: Participants, spouses, and children welcome

Optional Field Trip

==Participants==

*Kecia Ali, Boston University
*Matthew Anderson, Concordia University
*Jenny Barry, University of Mary Washington
*Albert Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University
*Federico Dal Bo, University of Heidelberg
*Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
*Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles
*Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley
*Bernadette Brooten, Bradeis University
*Krista N. Dalton, Kenyon College
*Vorpahl Daniel, Abraham Geiger Kolleg
*Carly Daniel-Hughes, Concordia University
*Kathy Ehrensperger, Abraham Geiger Kolleg/ University of Potsdam (Chair)
*Sari Fein, Brandeis University
*Channah Fonseca-Quezada, McMaster University
*Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham University
*Andrew Higginbotham, Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg
*Juni Hoppe, Abraham Geiger Kolleg/ University of Potsdam
*Matthew Hotham, Ball State University
*Maia Kotrosits, Denison University
*Harry Maier, Max-Weber-Kolleg
*Peter Mena, University of San Diego
*Rachel Neis, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
*Sara Parks, University of Nottingham
*Gerbern Oegema, Concordia University
*Ilaria Ramelli, Durham University
*Jens Schröter, Humboldt University
*Joshua Scott, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Secretary)
*Shayna Sheinfeld, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Sheffield University (Chair)
*Angela Standhartinger, Philipps-Universität Marburg
*Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
*Alison Vacca, University of Tennessee
*Lily Vuong, Central Washington University
*Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield
*Saadia Yacoob, Williams College
*David Zakarian, University of Oxford

==Travel Information==

Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting

2020-05-27T13:40:01Z

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2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-05-24T15:55:42Z

Jason Zurawski:

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (ETD, Eastern Daylight Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

10:00pm-11:30pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

"Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ben Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# Samuel Adams [respondent]
# Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# #@ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University)*
# Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# # Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# #@ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# # Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# John Barton (University of Oxford, UK)*
# #@ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edwards University, USA) [panelist]
# Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist]
# Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA)
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Luca Bertolino (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# # Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA)
# Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
# Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin (Newbold College, UK) *
# Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# # Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# # John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# # Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
# April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
# Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# Devorah Dimant (Haifa University, Israel) [awardee]
# Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# # Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Rachel Dryden (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, England)
# Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (Florida State University, USA)*
# # Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)
# Yael Fisch (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# # Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Lester Grappe (University of Hull, England) [respondent]
# Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# # Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
# Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# #@ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr. (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Karen King (Harvard University, USA)*
# Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# # Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# # John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# # Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# # Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# Fiodar Litvinau (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist]
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (Université Laval, Canada) *
# James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Enric Cortes Minguella (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
# George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)
# Jessica Ontek (Florida State University, USA)*
# #@ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Tali Partock (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Chad Pierce
# Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
# Andrea Ravasco (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# # Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington (UCLA, USA)*
# Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
# Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Eileen Schuller (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# # Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# David Suter (USA)
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# # Joan Taylor (King's College London, England)
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# # Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-05-23T13:46:57Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (Eastern American Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule==

====DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)====

10:00pm-11:30pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. "Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic

====DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins

====DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
* Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini

====DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020) ====

9:30 - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ben Reynolds, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo Di Tommaso

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini

== Confirmed Participants==

# Elisabetta Abate (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
# Samuel Adams [respondent]
# Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
# #@ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
# Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University)*
# Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
# # Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
# #@ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# # Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
# Kyung Baek (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# John Barton (University of Oxford, UK)*
# #@ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
# Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edwards University, USA) [panelist]
# Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist]
# Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA)
# Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
# Luca Bertolino (University of Turin, Italy)*
# Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
# @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
# # Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA)
# Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
# Andrew Bowden (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
# Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
# Lucas Brandon (Florida State University, USA)*
# Tom de Bruin (Newbold College, UK) *
# Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
# # Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
# Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
# Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
# Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
# Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
# # John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
# # Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
# Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
# James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
# April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
# Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
# Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
# Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
# Magdalena Díaz Araujo (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
# Devorah Dimant (Haifa University, Israel) [awardee]
# Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
# Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
# # Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
# Rachel Dryden (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, England)
# Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
# Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (Florida State University, USA)*
# # Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
# Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)
# Yael Fisch (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
# @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
# Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
# # Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
# Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
# John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)*
# Lester Grappe (University of Hull, England) [respondent]
# Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
# Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]
# David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
# # Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
# Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
# Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
# #@ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
# Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
# Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
# Kerwin Holmes Jr. (University of Virginia, USA)*
# Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
# David R. Jackson (Australia)*
# Jozef Jancovic (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
# Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
# Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
# Martina Kepper (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
# Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
# Karen King (Harvard University, USA)*
# Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
# Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
# Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
# Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
# Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
# David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
# Peter Lanfer (Occidetal College, USA)*
# Natalie Lantz (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
# Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)*
# Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
# # Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
# Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
# # John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
# # Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
# # Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
# Fiodar Litvinau (LMU Munich, Germany)*
# Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
# Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
# Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
# Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
# Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist]
# Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
# Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
# Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
# Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
# Gavin McDowell (Université Laval, Canada) *
# James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
# Enric Cortes Minguella (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
# Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
# Michael Morris [respondent]
# Craig Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
# Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
# Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
# George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
# Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
# Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
# @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
# Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)
# Jessica Ontek (Florida State University, USA)*
# #@ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
# Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
# Tali Partock (University of Cambridge, UK)*
# Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
# Chad Pierce
# Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
# Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
# Kirill Porubaev (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
# Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
# Andrea Ravasco (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
# # Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
# Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
# Megan Remington (UCLA, USA)*
# Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
# Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
# Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
# Eileen Schuller (McMaster University, Canada)*
# James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
# Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
# Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
# Isaac Soon (University of Durham, UK)*
# Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
# Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
# # Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
# Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
# Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
# David Suter (USA)
# Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
# # Joan Taylor (King's College London, England)
# Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
# Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
# Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
# Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
# Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
# James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
# Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
# # Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
# Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
# Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
# Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-05-19T08:06:05Z

Jason Zurawski:

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (Eastern American Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule==

====Monday, June 29, 2020: Opening Session====

10:00pm-11:30pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. "Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli,

====Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Three sessions====

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins

====Wednesday, July 1, 2020 -- Three sessions====

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester

====Thursday, July 2, 2020 -- Three sessions & Conclusion====

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* Panelists: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo DiTommaso

== Confirmed Participants==

* Elisabetta Abate (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
* Samuel Adams [respondent]
* Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
* #@ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
* Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University)*
* Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (Florida State University, USA)*
* Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
* # Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
* #@ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *

* # Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
* Kyung Baek (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
* John Barton (University of Oxford, UK)*
* #@ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
* Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edwards University, USA) [panelist]
* Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist]
* Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA)
* Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
* Luca Bertolino (University of Turin, Italy)*
* Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
* @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
* # Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA)
* Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
* Andrew Bowden (LMU Munich, Germany)*
* Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
* Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
* Lucas Brandon (Florida State University, USA)*
* Tom de Bruin (Newbold College, UK) *
* Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]

* # Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
* Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
* Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
* Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
* Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
* # John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
* # Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

* James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
* April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
* Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
* Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
* Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
* Magdalena Díaz Araujo (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
* Devorah Dimant (Haifa University, Israel) [awardee]
* Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
* Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent]
* # Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
* Rachel Dryden (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, England)
* Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*

* Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (Florida State University, USA)*
* # Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
* Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)

* Yael Fisch (University of Oxford, UK)*
* Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
* @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
* Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
* # Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
* Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]

* Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
* John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)*
* Lester Grappe (University of Hull, England) [respondent]
* Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
* Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]

* # Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
* Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
* Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
* #@ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
* Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
* Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
* Kerwin Holmes Jr. (University of Virginia, USA)*

* Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*

* David R. Jackson (Australia)*
* Jozef Jancovic (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
* Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*

* Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
* Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
* Karen King (Harvard University, USA)*
* Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
* Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
* Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
* Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
* Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*

* David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
* Peter Lanfer (Occidetal College, USA)*
* Natalie Lantz (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
* Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)*
* Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
* # Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
* Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
* # John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
* # Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
* # Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
* Fiodar Litvinau (LMU Munich, Germany)*
* Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
* Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
* Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]

* Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist]
* Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
* Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
* Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
* Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
* Gavin McDowell (Université Laval, Canada) *
* James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
* Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
* Michael Morris [respondent]
* Craig Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*

* Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
* Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
* Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
* George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
* Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
* Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*

* @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
* Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)
* Jessica Ontek (Florida State University, USA)*
* #@ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
* Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*

* Tali Partock (University of Cambridge, UK)*
* Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
* Chad Pierce
* Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
* Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
* Kirill Porubaev (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
* Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

* Andrea Ravasco (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
* # Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
* Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
* Megan Remington (UCLA, USA)*
* Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
* Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*

* Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
* Eileen Schuller (McMaster University, Canada)*
* James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
* Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
* Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
* Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
* Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
* Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
* # Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
* Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
* David Suter (USA)
* Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*

* Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
* # Joan Taylor (King's College London, England)
* Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
* Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
* Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*

* Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
* Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*

* James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]

* Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
* # Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
* Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
* Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*

* Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-05-18T15:40:25Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Confirmed Participants */

Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''

''Participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.''

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruk and Jason Zurawski)

Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (Eastern American Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Registration: In order to virtually attend the meeting and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, you must register via the online registration form here: https://forms.gle/2VfgpsT3EBYDjDt9A.

==Description (by the Chairs)==

'''Our Approach to this Online Seminar'''

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

'''Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response'''

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

'''The Nature of the Seminar'''

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

'''A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment'''

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

== Schedule==

====Monday, June 29, 2020: Opening Session====

10:00pm-11:30pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. "Awards Ceremony"

* "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, Devorah Dimant, and James Charlesworth, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."

* Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Loren Stuckenbruck

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

* Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
* Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

* Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, TBA
* Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, TBA

====Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Three sessions====

10am-11:30am [Chair Kelley Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

* Panelists: Carol Newsom, Loren Stuckenbruck, James VanderKam
* Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

* Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
* Respondents: Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright, Samuel Adams

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

* Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
* Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins

====Wednesday, July 1, 2020 -- Three sessions====

10am-11:30am [Chair Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

* Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
* Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

* Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniel Boyarin
* Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds

2:30pm-4pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

* Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
* Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester

====Thursday, July 2, 2020 -- Three sessions & Conclusion====

10am-11:30am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel
* Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky, Mika Ahuvia

12:00pm-1:30pm [Chair Kelley Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

* Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
* Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns

2:30-4pm - Wrap-up session

* Panelists: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren Stuckenbruck, Lorenzo DiTommaso

== Confirmed Participants==

* Elisabetta Abate (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
* Samuel Adams [respondent]
* Mika Ahuvia (University of Washington, USA) [respondent]
* #@ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
* Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University)*
* Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (Florida State University, USA)*
* Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy)
* # Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
* #@ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *

* # Florentina Badalova Geller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
* Kyung Baek (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
* John Barton (University of Oxford, UK)*
* #@ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
* Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edwards University, USA) [panelist]
* Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist]
* Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA)
* Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
* Luca Bertolino (University of Turin, Italy)*
* Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
* @ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
* # Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA)
* Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
* Andrew Bowden (LMU Munich, Germany)*
* Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist]
* Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
* Lucas Brandon (Florida State University, USA)*
* Tom de Bruin (Newbold College, UK) *
* Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]

* # Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
* Alberto Camplani (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) [panelist]
* Rodney Caruthers (Ashland Theological Seminary, USA)
* Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
* Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
* # John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
* # Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

* James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent]
* April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]
* Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
* Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
* Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
* Magdalena Díaz Araujo (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
* Devorah Dimant (Haifa University, Israel) [awardee]
* Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
* Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent]
* # Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
* Rachel Dryden (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, England)
* Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*

* Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (Florida State University, USA)*
* # Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)
* Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)

* Yael Fisch (University of Oxford, UK)*
* Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
* @ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
* Paula Fredriksen [panelist]
* # Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
* Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]

* Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
* John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)*
* Lester Grappe (University of Hull, England) [respondent]
* Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
* Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent]

* # Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]
* Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
* Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
* #@ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
* Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent]
* Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
* Kerwin Holmes Jr. (University of Virginia, USA)*

* Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*

* David R. Jackson (Australia)*
* Jozef Jancovic (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
* Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*

* Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
* Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
* Karen King (Harvard University, USA)*
* Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
* Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
* Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
* Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent]
* Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*

* David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
* Peter Lanfer (Occidetal College, USA)*
* Natalie Lantz (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
* Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)*
* Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist]
* # Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
* Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
* # John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA)
* # Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
* # Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
* Fiodar Litvinau (LMU Munich, Germany)*
* Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
* Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
* Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]

* Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist]
* Moses Matias (Morehouse College, USA)*
* Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
* Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
* Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
* Gavin McDowell (Université Laval, Canada) *
* James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
* Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
* Michael Morris [respondent]
* Craig Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*

* Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, England) [respondent]
* Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
* Carol Newson (Candler School of Theology, USA) [panelist]
* George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee]
* Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
* Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*

* @ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
* Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)
* Jessica Ontek (Florida State University, USA)*
* #@ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
* Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*

* Tali Partock (University of Cambridge, UK)*
* Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
* Chad Pierce
* Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
* Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
* Kirill Porubaev (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
* Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

* Andrea Ravasco (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
* # Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
* Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
* Megan Remington (UCLA, USA)*
* Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent]
* Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*

* Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee]
* Eileen Schuller (McMaster University, Canada)*
* James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
* Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
* Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
* Jason Silverman (Winthrop University, USA) [panelist]
* Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]
* Ryan Stokes (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist]
* # Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
* Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
* David Suter (USA)
* Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*

* Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
* # Joan Taylor (King's College London, England)
* Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
* Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
* Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*

* Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
* Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*

* James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]

* Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
* # Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
* Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
* Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*

* Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-05-16T11:07:21Z

Jason Zurawski: /* Schedule */

2020 Enoch Seminar Online

2020-05-11T11:12:12Z

Jason Zurawski: