Talk:2022 (Jan) Second Temple Judaism Conference

Prospective Speakers

4 from Africa, 8 from Asia, 12 from Europe, 12 from North America, 4 from Oceania, and 4 from South America

Israel, Asia (8)

• Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel

Researcher at the Israel Antiquity Authority: Dead Sea Scrolls Projects

United States (12)

• Isaac Soon (Crandall University) - Disability Studies, Paul/NT (Canada)

• Yii-Jan Lin (Yale; NT) - Revelation, critical race theory, gender & sexuality studies, immigration, reception history

• Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, United Stated

• Jason Zurawski

• Catherine Bonesho, UCLA, United States

Catherine E. Bonesho is an Assistant Professor in Early Judaism in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research focuses on locating the history, languages, literature, and culture of Judaism in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods in their imperial contexts. Specifically, she is interested in the ways ancient Jews navigated living under imperial domination through the development of legislation and rhetoric about the Other. She is currently working on her first monograph on the polemic of foreign holidays and festivals in rabbinic literature. Bonesho’s research also concentrates on the Roman Near East and Semitic languages, especially Aramaic, and their use in imperial contexts. In particular, she investigates the material presentation of Aramaic inscriptions found throughout the Roman Empire. She has co-authored translation and paleographic articles on Palmyrene Aramaic inscriptions as one of the founding members of the Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project in journals including Maarav and KUSATU. She spent the 2017-2018 academic year in Rome as a Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome (FAAR ‘18). Bonesho earned her PhD in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (2018) and her MA in Hebrew and Semitic Studies (2014) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, United States

• Liane Feldman, New York University, United States

I am an Assistant Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. My work focuses primarily on priestly literature, with an emphasis on the literary representation of sacrifice and sacred space in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature. I pay particular attention to the interplay between ritual and narrative, compositional history, and the relationship between texts and historical religious practice. I received my Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from The University of Chicago, M.A.s from Yale University and Boston College, and a B.A. in English literature from Northeastern University.

• Olivia Stewart Lester, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, United States

• M. Tong

• Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, United States

• Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, United States

Lisa Marie Bowens, PhD '14, associate professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned a BS (cum laude), MSBE, and MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and an MTS and ThM from Duke Divinity School. She received her PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and her recently published book, An Apostle in Battle: Paul and Spiritual Warfare in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 (Mohr Siebeck), is a revision of her dissertation and examines Paul’s ascent to the third heaven through a cosmic/apocalyptic lens. It traces martial imagery in the letter and explores how this imagery facilitates understanding Paul’s journey as an example of spiritual warfare. Her forthcoming book, African American Readings of Paul: Reception, Resistance, and Transformation (Eerdmans), available September 2020, will be the first book devoted solely to investigating a historical trajectory of how African Americans have understood Paul and utilized his work to resist and protest injustice and racism in their own writings from the 1700s to the mid-twentieth century. Her current projects include working as a contributor and co-editor with Scot McKnight and Joseph Modica on Preaching Romans From Here (forthcoming), as co-writer with Amy Peeler on an article on New Testament, race, and gender for The New Testament in Color (forthcoming) and two commentaries, one on 2 Corinthians and one on 1-2 Thessalonians ... Her research interests include Paul and apocalyptic literature, Pauline anthropology, Pauline epistemology, aspects of discipleship in the gospels, African American Pauline Hermeneutics, and New Testament exegesis and interpretation. She is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Society of Pentecostal Studies, and a past Fund for Theological Education fellow. She is also editor of the Oxford Online Bible and Race Project, a member of the editorial team for the Bulletin for Biblical Research Journal, co-chair of the Ethics and Biblical Interpretation Group (SBL), and a member of the Steering Committee for the African American Biblical Hermeneutics Group (SBL). She is a recipient of the Wabash Early Career Teaching Fellowship and the Louisville Institute First Book Grant for Scholars of Color. Some of her current courses are Paul and Apocalyptic Thought, Introduction to New Testament Greek, Greek Exegesis of 2 Corinthians, African American Pauline Hermeneutics, and Introduction to New Testament Exegesis.

• Chontel Syfox, University of Madison-Wisconsin

• Sarah Rollens, Rhodes College,

Sarah E. Rollens is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. Prior to coming to Rhodes, she taught courses in Religious Studies at University of Toronto, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and University of Alabama. She received her PhD in the Study of Religion in 2013 from University of Toronto. Her dissertation, Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project in the Sayings Gospel Q, was published in 2014 by Mohr Siebeck. Her current research project deals with violent imagery in early Christian texts. This research combines her broader interests in Christian origins, social theory, scribalism, identity formation, the ancient Mediterranean world, and the Synoptic gospels. Prof. Rollens has taught numerous courses in Religious Studies: Introduction to the New Testament; Introduction to Religious Studies; Historical Jesus; Jesus of Nazareth; Violence in Early Christianity; Religion and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World; Popular Culture/Public Humanities; Jesus in the Early Christian Writings; Early Christians Gospels; and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. She is currently teaching The Bible: Texts and Contexts (Life) and The Search for Values in Light of Western History and Religion (Search).

Europe (12)

• Sara Parks, England, Ireland

Sara's PhD (McGill University, 2016) is in Early Judaism and Historical Jesus. Her MA (McGill University, 2005) is in New Testament and Christian Origins. Before coming to Nottingham, she taught Biblical Studies at both McGill and Concordia universities in Montreal ... She hails from the province of New Brunswick, on the East Coast of Canada, where she received a double major with distinction in Biblical Studies and English literature at Crandall University and a diploma in Fine Arts from NSCAD University ... She completed a three-year post as Assistant Professor in New Testament Studies in the Dept of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham and has now transitioned into a 3-year Leverhulme research fellowship on Misogyny and Anti-Judaism at the Parting of the Ways between Judaism and Christianity ... Sara works on the history and literature of the late Second Temple Period of Judaism, including that of early Jesus movements and early Christianity. Sara's publications reflect her particular interest in reading texts and artefacts through a lens of gender, e.g.: Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus: Women in Q (Lexington Fortress, 2019), "Women and Gender in the Apocrypha" Oxford Handbook on the Apocrypha (forthcoming OUP 2021), Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (forthcoming Routledge 2021), "Eve in Early Jewish Reception" (forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Reception of Eve 2022), and The Intersection of Misogyny and Anti-Judaism at the Parting of the Ways (forthcoming Brepols 2023). Sara has recently published articles in The Bible & Critical Theory and New Blackfriars about the gendered politics of citation in religious studies, and the biblical studies classroom as restorative secular space.

• Nora David, University of Szeged, Hungary

• Shayna Sheinfeld, Sheffield University, England

• Meredith Warren, Sheffield University, England

• Michelle Fletcher, Research Assistant, Kings College London,

Michelle Fletcher specializes in the apocalyptic, textual imitation, and visual media theory. Her particular expertise in Bible and Film. Her doctoral research at King's College London used film theory to examine the use of the Hebrew Bible in the book of Revelation, and was awarded the Elsevier Outstanding Thesis Prize. It is forthcoming in the monograph Reading Revelation as Pastiche: Imitating the Past (Bloomsbury T&T Clark). Prior to her PhD, Michelle studied for a BA in English at Cambridge, and an MA in Biblical studies at King's College London ... Michelle is currently working on a co-edited text book in NT reception history, and also undertaking a research project examining visual and theological reception of the New Jerusalem ... Michelle is Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, where she teaches modules on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible. She is Research Assistant on the VCS at King’s College London, where she is also a Research Fellow. She is an editor for Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, co-chair of the BNTC Revelation seminar, and on the steering committee of SBL John's Apocalypse section.

• Federico Adinolfi, Italy

Federico Adinolfi was one of the organizer of our recent online conference on "John the Baptist, and has published a book on the subject.

• Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland

Alma Brodersen (born 1986) studied Theology at the universities of Mainz (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany) and Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) as well as the University of Oxford, St John’s College, UK, and holds a master’s degree (Dipl.-Theol., 2012) and a doctorate (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2016) in Theology. She was awarded scholarships by the German National Academic Foundation ("Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"), Maximilianeum Munich, St John's College Oxford (Choral Scholarship) and the Rhodes Trust (Rhodes Scholarship, Germany & St John's 2012). Her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion (2016) was supervised by Prof. John Barton and entitled "The End of the Psalter". It was published as Brodersen, Alma (2017): The End of the Psalter. Psalms 146-150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 505), Berlin: de Gruyter. A paperback version was published as Brodersen, Alma (2018): The End of the Psalter. Psalms 146-150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. Having led a Junior Research Group at LMU Munich's Graduate School for Ancient Studies "Distant Worlds" 2017-2019, she is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern on a project entitled "Ben Sira and the Beginning of the Biblical Canon".

• Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Dr. Shively specializes in the Gospel of Mark and the use of literary theory in its analysis. She is particularly interested in the use of cognitive disciplines (esp. cognitive linguistics) to account for acts of textual communication, interpretation, and reception; in the reuse of Israel's scriptures; and the intersection of Jewish apocalyptic worldview, symbols and language and the New Testament. Dr Shively is currently preparing a monograph entitled The Invention of the Gospel: Genre, Meaning, and Identity (Oxford University Press). In it, she integrates literary, cognitive, and rhetorical theories to offer a new model for gospel genre study and analysis; and suggests how gospel genre contributes to the textual construction of early Christian identity. In addition, she is preparing the second edition of the New International Greek Testament Commentary (NIGTC) on The Gospel of Mark (Eerdmans).

• Jamie Davies, Trinity College Bristol,

I was raised in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, and studied modern languages as an undergraduate at Nottingham University before spending two years in West Africa with Wycliffe Bible Translators. I returned to the UK to continue my training for long-term mission (with an MA in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London). An odd set of circumstances led, however, to a brief spell working in paediatric speech and language therapy in Glasgow. Intending to return to Bible translation, I began theological studies at International Christian College (for a BA in Theology), before two things happened which completely changed my direction. One, I met Becky (whom I quickly convinced to marry me) and two, I became convinced that the missional thinking normally applied to cross-cultural missions was urgently needed in the UK church. So, after graduating, I spent four years as a pastor in a church in north Glasgow ... During that time, I continued to develop my interest in theology and biblical studies, gaining an MLitt in Bible and Contemporary World from the University of St Andrews by part-time distance learning. I then moved to St Andrews to study full time for a PhD in New Testament under the supervision of Grant Macaskill. During this time I also worked as the warden of a university residence and as research assistant to Professor N.T. Wright ... A brief spell as Teaching Fellow in Biblical Studies at the University of Edinburgh followed before I arrived at Trinity College in September 2015.

Oceania (4)

• Lydia Gore-Jones, St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Australia

Lydia Gore-Jones is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at St Andrew’s. Her doctoral thesis completed at Macquarie University dealt with two Jewish apocalyptic works as response to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in AD 70. She has taught subjects related to biblical history and Hebrew language at tertiary level. She had previously worked as radio journalist, translator, and teacher of English as a Second Language.Lydia Gore-Jones is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at St Andrew’s. Her doctoral thesis completed at Macquarie University dealt with two Jewish apocalyptic works as response to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in AD 70. She has taught subjects related to biblical history and Hebrew language at tertiary level. She had previously worked as radio journalist, translator, and teacher of English as a Second Language.

Book : When Judaism Lost the Temple: Crisis and Response in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch (2020)

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Lydia is Orthodox and teaches at St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College:

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<lydia.gore-jones@mq.edu.au> <lydiagj@hotmail.com>

• Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, Australia <kylie.crabbe@acu.edu.au>

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Book : Luke/Acts and the End of History (2019)

<kylie.crabbe@acu.edu.au>

• Michael Theophilos, Australian Catholic University, Australia

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<michael.theophilos@acu.edu.au>

• James Harding, University of Otago, New Zealand

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<james.harding@otago.ac.nz>

• Anna Nürnberger

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now teaching at Australian Lutheran Seminary in Adelaide, but from Germany

South & Central America (4)

• Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina
• Vicente Dobroruka (Grabbe), Brazil
• Elisabeth Cook, Head of the Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica.
• Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil

Africa (4)

• Robyn Whitaker, Post-Doctoral Fellow, originally from South Africa and Australia.

Robyn Whitaker is a New Testament scholar and ordained minister of the Uniting Church in Australia currently living and working at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches biblical languages. Born and raised in South Africa, Robyn lived in England, Wales, and Australia before moving to the USA in 2006. She is married to Peter, an Episcopal priest and chaplain at Princeton University ... Robyn's undergraduate degree was earned at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a B.Sc. majoring in Zoology and Psychology. She received a Bachelor of Divinity (with honors) from the University of Divinity, Melbourne, in 1998 and a M.Theol. from the same institution in 2005 with a masters thesis on the symbolism of evil in the Book of Revelation. In 2014 Robyn completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Divinity School in the area of Bible (New Testament). Her dissertation, "Seeing God: Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation," examines the epiphanic rhetoric of the visions of God in Revelation arguing it seeks to make an absent God present through ekphrasis and thereby participates in the ancient agonistic debate about whether word or art best depicted the divine ... Robyn has published on various New Testament topics in Catholic Biblical Quarterly and other edited volumes. She has presented several papers at both the annual and international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, and given invited papers at the University of Chicago's Early Christian Studies Workshop and Princeton Theological Seminary's New Testament Colloquium. Her research interests focus on biblical apocalyptic literature and its reception in both ancient and modern contexts, biblical conceptions of evil, and visual exegesis of the bible.

Prospective chairs or respondents

They could be chosen among the members of the Enoch Seminar

• Jonathan Ben-Dov, Esther Chazon, Alexander Kulik

• Loren Stuckenbruck
• Kathell Berthelot
• Lutz Doering
• Liv Lied
• Cecilia Wassen
• Luca Arcari
• Kathy Ehrensperger
• Gabriella Gelardini
• Jutta Jokiranta
• Grant Makskill
• Hindy Najman,

• Judith Newman, Full Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

• North America (12) : Kenneth Atkinson, Joseph Angel, Giovanni Bazzana, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Matthew Goff, David DeSilva, Deborah Forger, Matthias Henze, Karina Martin Hogan, Andrei Orlov,

Graduate Students

• Elena Dugan, Princeton University

• Sofonit Abeba, University of Edimburgh

• Joshua Scott, University of Michigan

== Other possible names ==-

• Johannes Christian Bernhardt, , German
• Jonathan Bourgel, French (teaches in Germany), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany <jbourgel@gmail.com>
• Catherine Hezser, German (teaches in the UK)
• Benjamin Reynolds
• Sandra Gambetti, Italian (teachs in USA) [Grabbe]

Recommended by Grabbe:

• Johannes Christian Bernhardt, German
• Jonathan Bourgel, French (teaches in Germany)
• Vicente Dobroruka, Brazilian
• Sandra Gambetti, Italian (teachs in USA)
• Tupa Guerra, Brazilian
• Catherine Hezser, German (teaches in the UK)
• Sylvie Honigman, Israeli

TITLE -- Second Temple Jewish Studies: a World Symphony of Diversity

January 10-13, 2022

The study of Second Temple Judaism is a global enterprise. It involves specialists from all over the world. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have solicited 44 scholars (4 from Africa, 8 from Asia, 12 from Europe, 12 from North America, 4 from Oceania, and 4 from South America) to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of studies in the field. Specialists and students in Biblical and Judaic Studies are invited to listen to this symphony of voices.

It will be followed by a second online conference (April? 2022): "Reimagining the Study of Second Temple Judaism in the 21st century", a seminar with a group of invited participants.

DAY 1 (Monday, January 10, 2022)

8:15am -- Informal gathering of participants

8:30am -- Welcome & Introduction to the Conference

Session 1 : Europe (I)

• 9:00am - 9:15am -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Germany-Austria-Scandinavia.

• 9:15am - 11:00am -- PANEL (4 papers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Germany-Austria-Scandinavia for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 2 : Europe (II)

• 11:30am - 11:45pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in France and Italy.

• 11:45pm - 1:30pm -- PANEL (4 papers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in France and Italy for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 3 : North America (I)

• 2:00pm - 2:15pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Canada.

• 2:15pm - 4:00pm -- PANEL (4 papers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Canada for the 21st century.

DAY 2 (Tuesday, January 11, 2022)

8:30am -- Informal gathering of participants

Session 4 : Europe (III)

• 9:00am - 9:15am -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Great Britain and Ireland.

• 9:15am - 11:00am -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Great Britain and Ireland for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 5 : North America (

• 11:30am - 11:45pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Spain and Portugal.

• 12:00pm - 1:30pm -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Spain and Portugal for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 6 : Greece, Eastern Europe

• 2:00pm - 2:15pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Greece and Eastern Europe.

• 2:15pm - 4:00pm -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Greece and Eastern Europe for the 21st century.

DAY 3 (Wednesday, January 12, 2022)

8:30am -- Informal gathering of participants

Session 7 : Africa

• 9:00am - 9:15am -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Africa.

• 9:15am - 11:00am -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Africa for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 8 : United States

• 11:30am - 11:45pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in the United States.

• 11:45pm - 1:30pm -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research in the United States for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 9 : Central & South America

• 2:00pm - 2:15pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

Portraits of Second Temple Judaism in Central & South America.

• 2:15pm - 4:00pm -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects in Central & South America for the 21st century.

DAY 4 (Thursday, January 13, 2022)

8:30am -- Informal gathering of participants

Session 10 : Asia (I)

• 9:00am - 9:15am -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in Asia

• 9:15am - 11:00am -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Asia & Oceania for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Session 11 : E

• 11:30am - 11:45pm -- INTRODUCTION (15 min.)

The Study of Second Temple Judaism in .

• 11:45pm - 1:30pm -- PANEL (4 speakers, 15 min. each + 45 min. discussion)

Current status and future prospects of research on Second Temple Judaism in Israel for the 21st century.

-- 30 min. break --

Final Session : Conclusions

• 2:00pm - 3:45pm -- Wrap-Up session (11+ panelists - 5 min each + 1 hour discussion)

• 3:45pm - 4:00pm -- Conclusions (15 min.)