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[[File:University Michigan.jpg|thumb|250px|[[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]], at the University of Michigan (2006)]]
[[File:Princeton Theological Seminary.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]], at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University (2008)]]
[[File:Catholic University Budapest.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]], at the Catholic University Budapest (2010)]]
[[File:Notre Dame University.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]], at Notre Dame University (2012)]]
[[File:McGill University.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]], at McGill University and Concordia University Montreal (2014)]]
[[File:University Texas Austin.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]], at the University of Texas Austin (2016)]]
The '''Enoch Graduate Seminar''', founded in 2006, is an international gathering of PhD students and post-Docs in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, promoted by the [[Enoch Seminar]].
The '''Enoch Graduate Seminar''', founded in 2006, is an international gathering of PhD students and post-Docs in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, promoted by the [[Enoch Seminar]].
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'''Call for papers (2012 Meeting at the University of Notre Dame)'''
The fourth meeting of the Enoch Graduate Seminar will be held June 18-20, 2012 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, chaired by Prof. James C. VanderKam. The sessions will begin at noon on Monday, June 18 and will conclude at noon on Wednesday, June 20. Graduate or Post-Doc students working in the general area of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who wish to present a paper at the seminar should submit an abstract (no more than one page) clearly stating the shape of the argument and the conclusion. The abstract should be sent to the secretary of the Conference, Isaac Oliver <ioliver@umich.edu>, no later than December 15, 2011.
Around 15 papers will be selected and presented at the Seminar. Papers in their final form must be completed by May 15, 2012. They will circulate in advance among the participants and will be only briefly introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour will be devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants acting as respondents. The best papers will be selected for publication in the journal Henoch.
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).
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== History ==
== History ==
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The Enoch Graduate Seminar was founded in 2006 by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] as an extension of the activities of the [[Enoch Seminar]]. The goal was to offer the possibility to international PhD students and Post-Docs to meet and share the results of their research.  
The Enoch Graduate Seminar was founded in 2006 by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] as an extension of the activities of the [[Enoch Seminar]]. The goal was to offer the possibility to international PhD students and Post-Docs to meet and share the results of their research.  


The Enoch Graduate Seminar meets every other year, hosted by an international University. It is chaired by two or three senior specialists in the field. Papers circulates in advance among the participants and are only briefly introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour is devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants acting as respondents. The best papers are selected for publication in academic journals.
The Enoch Graduate Seminar meets every other year, hosted by an international University. It is chaired by two or three senior specialists in the field. Papers circulates in advance among the participants and are only briefly introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour is devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants acting as respondents. The best papers are selected for publication in academic journals. [[Isaac W. Oliver]] served as the secretary of the Conference from 2012 to 2016. He was succeeded by [[Rodney Caruthers]].


== Meetings ==
== Meetings ==


* 2006 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar (2006 Ann Arbor), conference]]
* 2006 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
** Chairs: [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], and [[James C. VanderKam]]
** Chairs: [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], and [[James C. VanderKam]]


* 2008 (Princeton Theological Seminary / Princeton University, Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar (2008 Princeton), conference]]
* 2008 (Princeton Theological Seminary / Princeton University, Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
** Chairs: [[James H. Charlesworth]], [[Martha Himmelfarb]], and [[Gabriele Boccaccini]]
** Chairs: [[James H. Charlesworth]], [[Martha Himmelfarb]], and [[Gabriele Boccaccini]]


* 2010 (Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar (2010 Budapest), conference]]
* 2010 (Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
** Chairs: [[Ida Froehlich]], [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], and [[Géza G. Xeravits]]
** Chairs: [[Ida Froehlich]], [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], and [[Géza G. Xeravits]]


* 2012 (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar (2012 Notre Dame), conference]]
* 2012 (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
**Chair: [[James C. VanderKam]]
**Chair: [[James C. VanderKam]]


* 2014 (Concordia University / McGill University, Montréal, QC) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar (2014 Montreal), conference]]
* 2014 (Concordia University / McGill University, Montréal, QC) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
**Chairs: [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] and [[Gerbern S. Oegema]]
**Chairs: [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] and [[Gerbern S. Oegema]]


== Schedule of the 2012 Meeting ==
* 2016 (University of Texas Austin) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
 
**Chairs: [[Jonathan Kaplan]], [[Kelley Coblenz Bautch]], [[Isaac Oliver]]
MONDAY
 
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
 
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
 
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”
 
== List of International PhD Students and Post-Docs ==
 
==== North America ====
 
* '''Stephanie Bolz''', Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
 
PhD candidate, Advisor [[Richard Kalmin]]
 
Her dissertation focuses on Magic and Divination in Rabbinic Literature.
 
* '''Deborah Forger''', Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
 
PhD student, Advisor [[Gabriele Boccaccini]]
 
Her research interests focus on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins.
 
* '''Anne Kreps''', Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
 
PhD candidate, Advisor [[Ellen Muehlberger]]
 
Her research interests focus on Christianity in Late Antiquity.
 
* '''Isaac W. Oliver''', Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
 
PhD candidate, Advisor [[Gabriele Boccaccini]]
 
His research interests focus on Jewish Law in the Gospels and the Jewish-Christian tradition.
 
*'''Shayna Sheinfeld''', Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
 
Graduate Student, Advisor [[Gerbern Oegema]]
 
Her research focuses on questions of Jewish identity, especially during the post-destruction period.
 
* '''Justin Winger''', Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
 
PhD candidate, Advisors [[Yaron Eliav]] and [[Sharon Herbert]]
 
His research interests focus on  the integration of Jewish archaeology and literature in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
 
* '''Jason Zurawski''', Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
 
PhD student, Advisor [[Gabriele Boccaccini]]
 
His research interests focus on Jewish-Hellenistic Literature
 
==== Europe ====
 
* '''Maria Chrysovergi''', Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University.
 
Graduate Student, Advisors [[Lutz Doering]] and [[Robert Hayward]].
 
Dissertation: ''Attitudes towards the Use of Medicine in Jewish Literature from the Third and Second Centuries BCE''
 
e-mail: maria.chrysovergi@durham.ac.uk.
* '''Magdalena Diaz Araujo''', Institut de recherches pour l'étude des religionsUniversité Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
 
Graduate Student; Advisor [[Mireille Hadas-Lebel]]
 
Dissertation title: “Woman and Sin in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve”
 
*'''Ted Erho''', Durham University
PhD Candidate
 
==== Israel and others ====
*'''Eshbal Ratson''', Tel Aviv University


PhD Student, Advisor [[Bezalel Bar Kochva]]
* 2018 (Université de Lausanne) - [[Seventh Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
**Chair: [[David Hamidovic]]


Dissertation title: "The Conception of the Universe in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch"
* 2020 [2021] (online) - [[Eighth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
**Chair: [[Deborah Forger]] [[Rodney Caruthers]]


== External links ==
== External links ==

Latest revision as of 06:52, 27 August 2021

First Enoch Graduate Seminar, at the University of Michigan (2006)
Second Enoch Graduate Seminar, at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University (2008)
Third Enoch Graduate Seminar, at the Catholic University Budapest (2010)
Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar, at Notre Dame University (2012)
Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar, at McGill University and Concordia University Montreal (2014)
Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar, at the University of Texas Austin (2016)

The Enoch Graduate Seminar, founded in 2006, is an international gathering of PhD students and post-Docs in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, promoted by the Enoch Seminar.

History

The Enoch Graduate Seminar was founded in 2006 by Gabriele Boccaccini as an extension of the activities of the Enoch Seminar. The goal was to offer the possibility to international PhD students and Post-Docs to meet and share the results of their research.

The Enoch Graduate Seminar meets every other year, hosted by an international University. It is chaired by two or three senior specialists in the field. Papers circulates in advance among the participants and are only briefly introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour is devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants acting as respondents. The best papers are selected for publication in academic journals. Isaac W. Oliver served as the secretary of the Conference from 2012 to 2016. He was succeeded by Rodney Caruthers.

Meetings

External links

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