Talk:Twelfth Enoch Seminar (2023 online), conference

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Confirmed speakers:

1. Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany (*)

2. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward's University, USA (*)

3. Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA (*)

4. Arjen Bakker, University of Groningen, NL (*)

5. Daniel Schumann, University of Tuebingen, Germany (*)

6. Logan Williams, University of Exeter, UK (*)

7. Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany (*)

8. Mark Leuchter, Temple University, PA, USA (*)

9. Henryk Drawnel, University of Lublin, Poland (*) hdrawnel@yahoo.com

10. Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (*)

11. Joshua Scott

12. Ruben Bühner, University of Tuebingen, Germany (*) <r.buehner@uni-tuebingen.de>

13. Jolyon Pruszinski, Princeton University, USA (*) <jolyonp@princeton.edu> <jolyon.pruszinski@gmail.com>

14. Alexander McCarron (*)

15. Dan Machiela, University of Notre Dame, USA (*)

16. Mjriam Bokhorst, University of Halle, Germany (*)

17. Elena Dugan, Phillips Academy Andover, USA (*)

18. Philip Esler, University of Gloucestershire, UK (*)

19. Ariel Hessayon, University of London, UK (*)

20. Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester, UK (*)

21. Daniele Minisini, University of Rome, Italy (*)

22. Ariel Feldman, Brite Divinity School. (*) “Noah’s Flood as Purifying Bath in 1 Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts.”

23. Michael Langlois

24. Daniel Assefa

25. Ida Froelich

26. Matthew Goff


27. Archie Wright (?)

28. Ralph Lee (?)

29. Judith Newman (?)

30. John Reeves (?)

31. Jeffrey L. Cooley, Boston College (?)


Annette Reed (no) Bruk Ayele Asale (no) Andrei Orlov (no)

Respondents

  • VanderKam (si)
  • Collins (si)



“The Books of Enoch as vehicles of the circulation of the zodiac between Hellenistic and Byzantine Egypt and Late Roman and Byzantine Palestine”

Abstract

This paper argues that the Greek fragments of the Book of Enoch, known from Akhmim (Panopolis), and Oxyrhynchus, which includes part of the Book of Luminaries and the Aramaic Astronomical Book, may reflect a long-term process of circulation of astronomical knowledge between Egypt and Palestine.

The suggestion follows this author’s research in progress that the depictions of the zodiac on some mosaic floors of Late Roman and Byzantine-period synagogues in Palestine are paralleled in zodiacal iconography in a number of private Roman tomb ceilings and coffin lids from first and second century CE Roman Egypt.

Some mosaic artists from Egypt worked in Palestine and there were strong connections between the countries. However, similarities between the Egyptian zodiacs executed in the Greco-Roman style, including iconography in tombs from Akhmim, and several zodiac wheels on the floors of Late Roman and Byzantine synagogues centuries apart have not been explained.

There is also a connection between an early Ptolemaic zodiacal calendar and the “synchronistic calendar” in the Aramaic Astronomical Book.

Intellectual links with the different Books of Enoch, common origins in Mesopotamian astronomy, and the diachronic standardization of Greco-Roman-Egyptian zodiacal art probably account for this close connection.

(*) Dear ...:

Thank you for accepting our invitation to offer a paper at the 12th Enoch Seminar online (June 19-22, 2023). We have an exceptional line of confirmed speakers, representing the best of "Enoch Studies in the 2020s." It will be the largest gathering of Enoch specialists in recent years.

Papers will circulate in advance and are due by May 10, 2023.

A working title (and abstract) of your paper is due at your earliest convenience, by October 30, 2022.

Best. Gabriele

Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch Loren Stuckenbruck

Langlois, Reed, Assefa

In the end we decided to open the 12th Enoch Seminar online (June 19-22, 2023) to both senior and younger scholars, in order to offer the very best of "Enoch Studies in the 2020s." We have already an outstanding line of confirmed speakers, that (besides recent PhDs, like Elena Dugan, Mirjam Bokhorst, Fiodar Litvinau, Logan Williams, Daniel Schumann, etc.), also includes the three of us, Dan Machiela, Henryk Drawnel, Jonathan Ben-Dov, etc. etc. We want to make it the largest gathering of Enoch specialists in recent years.

We think that it will be very important for the success of the conference, if you also could offer a paper. Please, confirm at your earliest convenience, preferably by Sept 15, 2022.

Papers shall focus on Enoch texts, on their relation with other literary corpora, or on the history of their reception in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. You are expected to submit an original paper, or a paper based on your most recent research on the subject. A working title (and abstract) of your paper is due at your earliest convenience, by October 30, 2022.

All papers will circulate in advance (by May 10, 2023). At the conference, around one hour will be devoted to each paper: the 15-20m presentation by the author will be followed by a panel of 2-3 specialists and general discussion.

A selection of original papers will be submitted to peer review for publication in the volume of the Proceedings.

Best. Gabriele

Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch Loren Stuckenbruck


Invited speakers:

  • 1. <OK> Ruben A. Bühner. Messianic High Christology: New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism / Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2021. <Enoch and Christian Origins> r.buehner@uni-tuebingen.de
  • 2. <OK> Jonathan Ben-Dov
  • 3. <OK> Mirjam Bokhorst, Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg (PhD 2020) -- Book: "Henoch und der Tempel des Todes: 1 Henoch 14-16 zwischen Schriftauslegung und Traditionsverarbeitung" (2021) -- <mirjam.bokhorst@theologie.uni-halle.de>
  • 4. <OK> Daniel Schumann (!!), Oriel College, Univ, of Oxford (PhD 2018) / Article: THE ESCHATOLOGIZATION OF THE EXODUS NARRATIVE IN 1 ENOCH 1-5 / Revue de Qumran, 32 no 2 2020, p 235-250. daniel.schumann@uni-tuebingen.de
  • 5. <OK> Arjen Bakker () Univ. of Groningen, NL -- Article: "The Praise of the Luminaries in the Similitudes of Enoch and its Parallels in the Qumran Scrolls" (in Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2017) -- <a.f.bakker@rug.nl>
  • 7. <OK> Loren Stuckenbruck
  • 8. <OK> Kelley Coblentz Bautch
  • 9. <OK> Mark Leuchter
  • 1. <OK> Fiodar Litvinau, University of Munich (PhD 2022?) -- Aticle: "A note on the Greek and Ethiopic text of 1 Enoch 5:8" (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 29.1, 2019) -- <fiodar.litvinau@campus.lmu.de>
  • 15. <OK> Alex(ander) McCarron ( ) Sydney, Australia -- Review: "Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Volume I Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" / Journal of Jewish Studies, 72 no 1 Spr 2021, p 198-202 <alexandermccarron@hotmail.com>
  • 18. <OK> Logan Williams / Article: Debating Daniel's dream : the Synoptic Gospels and the similitudes of Enoch on the Son of Man / Logan Williams - <Enoch and Christian Origins> <logan.a.williams1@gmail.com>
  • 19. <OK> Jolyan Pruszinski, Princeton -- Book: An ecology of scriptures: Experiences of dwelling behind early Jewish and Christian texts (2021) -- <jolyonp@princeton.edu> <Enoch and Christian Origins>
  • 23. <OK> Daniel Machiela, University of Notre Dame, United States -- A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves: Manuscripts, Language, and Scribal Practices. Studies in the Texts of the Desert of Judah 140. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
  • 24. <OK> Henryk Drawnel, Poland
  • <OK> Joshua Scott
  • <OK> Gabriele Boccaccini

17. <OK> Elena Dugan, Phillips Academy Andover (##), "Enochic Biography and the Manuscript History of 1 Enoch: The Codex Panopolitanus Book of the Watchers" / Journal of Biblical Literature, 140 no 1 2021, p 113-138 / Phillips Academy Andover (PhD 2021) -- <edugan@andover.edu> [Daniel Assefa]


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  • 6. <!!> Bruk Ayele Asale, Ethiopia (PhD South Africa, 2015) -- Book: First Enoch as Christian Scripture: 1 Enoch as Christian scripture : a study in the reception and appropriation of 1 Enoch in Jude and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewah[e]do canon (2020) -- <bruk.ayelea@gmail.com> <Enoch and Christian Origins>
  • 11. <NO> Andrei Orlov
  • 12. <!!> Däumer, Matthias

Eschatological relativity : on the scriptural undermining of apocalypses in Jewish Second Temple, late antique and medieval receptions of the "Book of Watchers". Cultures of Eschatology I (2020) 254-274 matthias.daeumer@univie.ac.at

  • 13. * <OK> Daniele Minisini, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (PhD 2022) -- Article: "Già la scure è posta alla radice degli alberi: Giovanni Battista tra escatologia e purità" (Materia giudaica, 2020) -- <daniele.minisini@uniroma1.it> <Enoch and Christian Origins>
  • 17. <OK> # Ariel Felmann, "Noachic traditions in the Book of Parables: Two parallels from the Dead Sea Scrolls", Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 30 no 4 Jun 2021, p 186-197. Publication Type: Article <ariel.feldman@tcu.edu>
  • 20 <NO> Elekosi Lafitaga, (PhD 2017) American Samoa Islands, Fiji -- Book: Apocalyptic Sheep and Goats in Matthew and 1 Enoch (2022) <Enoch and Christian Origins> Invitation sent thru academia.edu
  • 21. <!!> George Njeri, "Surprise on the Day of Judgment in Matthew 25:31-46 and The Book of the Watchers", Neotestamentica, 54 no 1 2020, p 87-104. <Enoch and Christian Origins>
  • 22. <!!> Sofanit Abebe -- Article: "Peter and the patriarch: eschatological perspectives from 1 Peter and 1 Enoch" (In Beyond canon: early Christianity and the Ethiopic textual tradition, 2021) <Enoch and Christian Origins>
  • 25. <OK> Helen Jacobus, University of Manchester
  • 26. <OK> Ariel Hessayon
  • # Jeffrey L. Cooley, "Exegeting Enoch: Re-inscribing a Mesopotamian Figure in the Yahwist Narrative" / Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 80 no 1 Apr 2021, 59-71 /

Daniel Olson (?)

  • Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University: "Being Saved Without Honor: A Conceptual Link Between 1 Cor 3 and 1 Enoch 50?" In Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 29.2 (Dec 2006): 187-210. <ron.herms@fresno.edu>


Nominees:

  • Peter Shaefer <respondent?>
  • David Hamidovic <respondent?>
  • Goff, Matthew J. <respondent?>
  • John Collins <respondent>
  • Michael Langlois <respondent?>
  • Nora David <respondent?>
  • Grant Makaskill <respondent?>
  • Jim VanderKam <respondent>
  • Daniel Assefa <respondent?>
  • Gerbern Oegema <respondent>
  • Joseph Angel <respondent?>
  • Angela Harkins <respondent?>
  • Annette Reed <respondent?>
  • Hindy Najman <respondent?>
  • Matthias Henze <respondent?>



  • The reception of the Watchers tradition in Tertullian with regard to 1 Cor 11:2-16.

Carlson, Stephen C. (??) <Enoch and Christian Origins> The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians (2022) 47-60

3 ARTICLE Rethinking environmentalism and apocalypse : anamorphosis in "The Book of Enoch" and climate fiction. Mebius, Eva-Charlotta ; Kotva, Simone Religions 12,8 (2021) pp 15

7 ARTICLE Sexual desire in the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 6-36) and the New Testament exhortation to sexual abstinence. Nir, Rivka <Enoch and Christian Origins> Jewish Thought 3 (2021) 9-34

9 ARTICLE The sin of the angels in 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6. Papaioannou, Kim <Enoch and Christian Origins> Journal of Biblical Literature 140,2 (2021) 391-408 <papaioannou@andrews.edu> <kgpap@yahoo.co.uk>

10 ARTICLE Little known giants traditions in Ethiopian literature. LEE, RALPH Representations of Angelic Beings in Early Jewish and in Christian Traditions (2021) 205-220

44 ARTICLE The Epistle of Enoch and Revelation 18:1-24 : economic critique of Rome. <Enoch and Christian Origins> <!!> Westfall, Cynthia Long Reading Revelation in Context; John's Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism (2019) 146-152

45 ARTICLE The Nag Hammadi reception of "1 Enoch" : some preliminary remarks and a case study - "a Valentinian exposition" (NHC XI, 2; CPG 1216; CC 0669). Berno, Francesco <Enoch and Christian Origins> Augustinianum 59,1 (2019) 7-23

48 ARTICLE Reading Jewish wisdom from before the flood : authorship, prophecy, and textuality in Enochic literature. <OK> Goff, Matthew J. Autorschaft und Autorisierungsstrategien in apokalyptischen Texten (2019) 171-192


  • <!!> Anathea Portier-Young, "Constructing Imperial and National Identities: Monstrous and Human Bodies in Book of Watchers, Daniel, and 2 Maccabees" / Interpretation, 74 no 2 Apr 2020, p 159-170 /
  • Eshbal Ratson, Tel Aviv University (PhD 2012) -- <eshbal@gmail.com>


  • Joshua Scott, University of Michigan (PdD 2022) [Al Baumgaten & Gerbern Oegema] <Enoch and Christian Origins>


  • Nora David
  • Grant Makaskill
  • <!!> Michael Langlois
  • J. Anthonie Keddie
  • Cana Werman

Daniel Machiela

  • David Carr, Walter Buehrer (Hebrew Bible Scholars on Gen 6) John Day
  • Joseph Angel
  • Yakir Paz
  • Also to be considered:
  • Mateusz Kusio (PdD Oxford 2019) now in Berlin -- Book: "The Antichrist tradition in Antiquity: Antimessianism in Second Temple and early Christian literature" (2020). (?)


Books


Dr. Ashley London Bacchi Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions Starr King "Enoch, Etiologies of Sin and Reconstructing a World View" / In Uncovering Jewish creativity in Book III of the Sibylline oracles: gender, intertextuality, and politics"

  • <!> Serge Ruzer Book: "Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament: reflections in the dim mirror"

serge.ruzer@mail.huji.ac.il <Enoch and Christian Origins>


  • Tommaso Tesei (?)


Dear dr. ....

We would like to invite you to offer a paper at the 12th Enoch Seminar, which will be held online (June 19-22, 2023). The choice to have our meeting online is intended to facilitate the participation of international specialists.

The topic of the meeting is Enoch Studies in the 2020s. We decided to invite a select number of scholars who are currently working on Enoch literature, to present and discuss their work with the international specialists in the field and distinguished members of the Enoch Seminar. We have already an outstanding line of confirmed speakers. It will be the largest gathering of Enoch specialists in recent years.

Papers are by invitation only and shall focus on Enoch texts, their relation with other literary corpora, or the history of their reception in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. You are expected to submit an original paper, or a paper based on your most recent research on the subject. A working title (and abstract) of your paper is due at your earliest convenience, by October 30, 2022.

All papers will circulate in advance (by May 10, 2023). At the conference, around one hour will be devoted to each paper: the 15-20m presentation by the author will be followed by a panel of 2-3 specialists and general discussion.

A selection of original papers will be submitted to peer review for publication in the volume of the Proceedings.

Please, we ask you to confirm (or decline) your participation at your earliest convenience, possibly by Sept 30, 2022.

Best regards, Gabriele

Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren T. Stuckenbruck Enoch Seminar Directors

  • 9. Henryk Drawnel, University of Lublin, Poland (*) hdrawnel@yahoo.com -- "Noah and Cosmic Metaphors in the Aramaic Fragments and the Ethiopic Recension of the Flood Account in the Animal Apocalypse (1 En. 89:1–9)" -- The Aramaic account of the Flood of 1 Hen 89:1-9 is preserved in two fragments from Qumran (4Q206 frags 8 I and 9), which contain a shorter recension of the Flood narrative compared to the Ethiopic text. The same Aramaic text introduces some additional information about Noah and the structure of the universe that is not found in the biblical text. In a similar vein, the longer recension of the flood in the Ethiopic version preserves several additions and cosmographic metaphors absent in the Aramaic fragments and the biblical text (Genesis 6-9). The paper researches this new information retrieved from the flood account of the Animal Apocalypse concerning the revelation of the mystery to Noah, his transformation, building of the ship, seven cosmic spouts, lofty roof, enclosure, darkness and mist. In some cases, distant echoes of Mesopotamian flood accounts and other Mesopotamian literature are taken into consideration.
  • 23. Michael Langlois -- "The Book of Enoch and the Torah" -- Both the Book of Enoch and the Pentateuch have a complex history of redaction, transmission and reception. In this paper, I would like to examine some of these aspects in a comparative approach, using external and internal evidence. Special attention will be given to the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the earliest physical evidence documenting the development and reception of the Book of Enoch and the Pentateuch.
  • 15. Dan Machiela, University of Notre Dame, USA -- "Enoch versus Moses or Enoch plus Moses? A view from the developing corpus of early Jewish Aramaic literature" (Machiela) -- "The relationship of Enoch and Moses has grown into a lively topic of discussion in reconstructions of ancient Jewish thought, with opinions ranging from significant friction between the two figures and their respective "judaisms" (Enochic and Mosaic) to the absence of any opposition at all. In this paper, I take up the question of how Enoch and Moses might relate in early Judaism from the perspective of a developing corpus of Jewish Aramaic literature dating to the late Persian and Hellenistic periods, of which the Enochic writings were part. Drawing on a number of interrelated works from this corpus, I suggest that Enoch and Moses are understood to be complementary figures, with Moses and the Torah he received at Sinai contributing to a stream of revealed wisdom that begins with Enoch."
  • 1. Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany -- "Insights Emerging from New Evidence among the Ge‘ez Henok Manuscripts” -- The paper will report on progress made on the forthcoming edition on Ge‘ez manuscripts relating to “1 Enoch”. Following a brief description of the specific edition-related aims of the project, the presentation focuses on several areas in which new insights can be found: (1) the significance of several very late manuscripts for interpretation; (2) the challenges and problems involved in constructing stemma-relationships among the manuscripts; (3) how a number of manuscripts transmit more than one reading for a text; (4) the significance of differences among division markers; and (5) the contribution to understanding offered by a study of paratexts. The conclusion will suggest that our growing knowledge of the Enochic tradition, while opening windows into the distance pasts of transmission, also sheds light on the multiple transmission histories that enable readers to encounter what remains a living tradition.
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