Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar (2012 Notre Dame), conference
The Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar (2012), is an international Conference for advance doctoral students and recent Ph.D.'s organized by the Enoch Seminar, as part of the ongoing series of meetings of the Enoch Graduate Seminar (since 2006)
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Overview
Chairs: James C. VanderKam, Notre Dame University.
Date: June 18-20, 2012
Place: Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN
Secretary: Isaac W. Oliver (Bradley University)
The fourth meeting of the Enoch Graduate Seminar was held June 18-20, 2012 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, chaired by Prof. James C. VanderKam. The sessions began at noon on Monday, June 18 and concluded at noon on Wednesday, June 20. Graduate or Post-Doc students working in the general area of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins were invited to attend. The secretary of the Conference was Isaac W. Oliver, University of Michigan.
22 papers were selected and presented at the Seminar. They circulated in advance among the participants and were only briefly introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour was be devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants acting as respondents. The best papers were recommended for publication.
Previous meetings of the Enoch Graduate Seminar were held at the University of Michigan (2006), Princeton Theological Seminary / Princeton University (2008), and the Catholic University of Budapest (2010).
Schedule
MONDAY June 18, 2012
12:00–1:30 pm Lunch. Welcome
2:00–6:15: Papers
2:00-2:40: Elisa Uusimäki, “The Use of Scripture in 4Q525: Making Proverbs more Particular?”
2:40-3:20: John Quant, “Variant Edition or Rewritten Scripture? The Case of Greek Esther”
3:20-4:00: John Screnock, “Questions concerning the Original Language and Provenance of Sirach 24”
4:00–4:15: 15 Minute Break
4:15-55: Hervé Gonzalez, “Foreseeing the Crisis: The Attribution of Zech 9-14 to the Prophet Zechariah during the Ptolemaic Period”
4:55-5:35: Sarit Kattan Gribetz, “Take to Heart these Instructions: The Shema in the Second Temple Period, A Reconsideration”
5:35-6:15: Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, “The Natural World as Testimony and Judgment in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature”
6:30: Dinner
TUESDAY June 19, 2012
9:00–12:10: Papers
9:00-9:40: Inguun Aadland, “Judgment in 4Q185”
9:40-10:20: Kasper Dalgaard, “Why Qumran Loved Melchizedek”
10:20-11:00: Clarisse Ferreira da Silva, “Women in the Yahad or Women at Qumran? A Study on Gender in the Damascus Document, the Rule Scroll, Serekh Damascus, and in the Historical Sources Related to the Essenes”
11:00–11:10: 10 Minute Break
11:10-11:50: Jonathan Trotter, “The Unity of Jubilees 5:1-18”
11:50-12:30: Yedidya Etzion, “The Second Temple in Jeremiah Second Temple Literature”
12:30–2:00: Lunch 2:00–6:15 pm: Papers
2:00-2:40: Daniel Wise, “Pious Demonology versus Illicit Witchcraft: Theologizing Magic in Testament of Solomon 19-26”
2:40-3:20: Shlomo Mahn, “Historical Narratives in Ben Sira, Animal Apocalypse, and Jubilees”
3:20-4:00: Ryan C. Stoner, “The Periodization of History in the Apocalypse of Weeks”
4:00–4:15: 15 Minute Break
4:15-4:55: Andrew Perrin, “The Compositional Structure of Dream-Visions in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: A Preliminary Report”
4:55-5:35: Will Dilbeck, “The Sealed Book David Did Not Read: The Apocalyptic Worldview of the Damascus Documents”
5:35-6:15: Hilde Brekke Møller, “The Hasid Theory of Geza Vermes and the Reception in Recent Research”
6:30: Dinner
WEDNESDAY June 20, 2012
9:00 am–12:30 pm: Papers
9:00-9:40: Deborah Forger, “The ‘Shaping’ of Jesus’ Encounter with the Gentile Woman in Mark 7.24-30//Matthew 15:21-8”
9:40-10:20: Justin Strong, “Judaean Identity in Q”
10:20-11:00: Oren Ableman, “Multi-Headed Beasts and the Roman Emperors: Some aspects of Eschatology in Revelation 13 and 17, and 4 Ezra 11-12”
11:00–11:10: 10 Minute Break
11:10-11:50: Isaac W. Oliver , “Purifying and Sanctifying Gentile Followers of Jesus: ‘Luke’s Affirmation of Purity and Dietary Laws in Acts 10–11”
11:50-12:30: Joseph Sanzo, “Your Impurity is My Purity: The ‘Jewish’ Persecution of Christ in P. Heidelberg, inv. G 1101”
Participants
- Ingunn Aadland, Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
- Oren Ableman, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA
- Kasper Dalgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Thomas W. Dilbeck, Hebrew Union College, USA
- Yedidya Etzion, University of California Berkeley, USA
- Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA
- Hervé Gonzalez, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Princeton University, USA
- Shlomo Mahn, McGill University and Concordia University
- Hilde Brekke Møller, Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
- James Nati, Yale University, USA
- Isaac W. Oliver, Bradley University, USA
- Andrew B. Perrin, McMaster University, Canada
- John F. Quant, Emory University, USA
- Joseph E. Sanzo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
- John Screnock, University of Toronto, Canada
- Clarisse Ferreira da Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Ryan C. Stoner, University of Toronto, Canada
- Justin D. Strong, Harvard University, USA
- Michael Thompson, London School of Theology, United Kingdom
- Jonathan Trotter, USA
- Elisa Uusimäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Daniel Wise, Florida State University, USA
- Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Emory University, USA