1st EnochFest

EnochFest: Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins — A Year in Review (Feb 15-16, 2027)

The goal of the conference is to offer the opportunity to authors who have recently published works in Second Temple Judaism to present their research. It is not a series of book presentations but of papers based on published books.

LETTER OF INVITATION

Dear Professor [Name],

It is my great pleasure to invite you to participate as a speaker in the inaugural EnochFest, an international online conference organized by the Enoch Seminar, to be held on February 15–17, 2027:

EnochFest 2027: Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins — A Year in Review

Since 2001, the Enoch Seminar has served as an open global forum promoting the study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian, Jewish, and Islamic origins. The goal of EnochFest is to offer an annual overview of the most significant recent developments in the field by inviting scholars whose recently published work has made particularly important contributions to our understanding of these subjects.

The presentation is not intended as a book presentation. Rather, we invite you to offer a scholarly paper that develops an argument, insight, or theme drawn from your recently published work, whether from the book as a whole or from a particular section or aspect of it.

Like all other invited international scholars, you will be given a 40-minute slot, consisting of a 20-minute paper, followed by approximately 15–20 minutes of academic discussion with the appointed Chairs and questions from the audience.

In light of your distinguished scholarship, we would be especially honored if you would consider presenting a paper on:

“[Suggested Title]”

This is only a suggested title, and you would of course be entirely free to modify or reformulate it as you wish.

The conference will be held online via Zoom, according to the following schedule, EST (New York) time:

February 15, 2027: 15:00–22:00 February 16, 2027: 15:00–22:00 February 17, 2027: 15:00–22:00

We would be grateful if you could let us know whether you would be able to participate in the conference by August 31, 2026.

At a later stage, we will ask you to provide:

your final presentation title; an abstract of 100–200 words; five to eight keywords; your institutional affiliation; a short professional biography; and confirmation that you consent to the recording of your presentation.

It would be a great honor to have you contribute to this inaugural EnochFest, and I very much hope that you will be able to join us.

With my best regards,

Gabriele Boccaccini, PhD Founding Director, Enoch Seminar www.enochseminar.org

Invitations

• (#1) David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz], The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables (De Gruyter, 2026)

• (#2) Jason Wendel (Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament, Regent College <jwendel@regent-college.edu>). Luke and the Law: A Defence of Christian law-observance. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.

• (#3) Rebecca L Harris (Assistant Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies, Messiah University). Religious experience and divinization in the sectarian Dead Sea scrolls: Living in the liminal. Leiden: Brill, 2026. <harris@messiah.edu>

• (#4) Carmen Palmer (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Stetson University). Gentile Women in Qumran : Female converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. <cpalmer4@stetson.edu>

• (#5) Jamal-Dominique Hopkins (Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures, Baylor University). Cultic spiritualization : Religious sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2026. <j_hopkins@baylor.edu>

• (#6) Jesse Mirotznik (Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) <jesse.mirotznik@univie.ac.at>. The Portrayal of Pagan Worship in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism Cambridge University Press, 2026.

• (#7 <OK>) Sabrina Inowlocki (Marie Curie Fellow, KU Leuven). Ancient apologetics and the bibliographic imagination. (Cambridge University Press, 2026) <sabrina.inowlocki@acu.edu.au >

• (#8) Marcello Fidanzio - The Great Isaiah Scroll (2026)

• (#9) Kim Haines-Eitzen (Professor of Early Christianity and Early Judaism, Cornell University). The Gospel of John: A Biography. Princeton University Press, 2026.

To be invited

• Maoz Kahana. Pagan Gods in Jewish Space: Greek and Roman Mythology in Early Modern Jewish Culture. Stanford University Press: 2026.

• Saqib Hussain (Loyola Marymount University). Wisdom in the Qur'an: Law and morality from the Bible to Late Antiquity. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2026.

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• Giancarlo Lacerenza, Jews in Ancient Italy
• Jessica Dello Russo, A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome (Leiden: Brill, 2025)
• Maoz Kahana. Pagan Gods in Jewish Space: Greek and Roman Mythology in Early Modern Jewish Culture. Stanford University Press: 2026.

• JiSeong James Kwon. Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism (2025)

Program

FIRST DAY

1^ session

• 8:45 - 9:00 -- Welcome and Introduction
• 9:00 - 9:40 -- 1. New Publications of the Enoch Seminar (Gabriele Boccaccini)
• 9:40 - 10:20 -- 2. John Collins, author of Apocalypticism as a World View (2026)
• 10:20 - 11:00 -- 3. David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz], author of The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables (De Gruyter, 2026)

2^ session

• 11:15 - 11:40 -- 4. Marcello Fidanzio - The Great Isaiah Scroll
• 11:35 - 12:10 -- 5. Rebecca L Harris. Religious experience and divinization in the sectarian Dead Sea scrolls: Living in the liminal. Leiden: Brill, 2026.
• 12:10 - 12:45 -- 6.

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3^ session

• 1:45 - 2:20 -- 7. Giancarlo Lacerenza, Jews in Ancient Italy
• 2:20 - 2:55 -- 8. JiSeong James Kwon, author of Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism
• 2:55 - 3:30 -- 9.

SECOND DAY

4^ session

• 8:45 - 9:00 -- Welcome and Introduction
• 9:00 - 9:35 -- 10. Indy Najman, Author of Scriptural Vitality
• 9:35 - 10:10 -- 11.
• 10:10 - 10:45 -- 12. Van Maaren

5^ session

• 11:00 - 11:35 -- 13.
• 11:35 - 12:10 -- 14. Jason Wendel (Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament, Regent College <jwendel@regent-college.edu>). Luke and the Law: A Defence of Christian law-observance. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.
• 12:10 - 12:45 -- 15. Federico Adinolfi. The Contribution of Italian Scholarship to the Within Judaism Perspective.

6^ session

• 1:45 - 2:20 -- 16. Vladimir Olivero, 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader's Edition (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2025)
• 2:20 - 2:55 -- 17. Makaskill, 2 Enoch
• 2:55 - 3:30 -- 18. A Survey of Enoch Seminar Upcoming Events & Publications

Program

• Gabriele Boccaccini, New Publications of the Enoch Seminar
• Indy Najman, Author of Scriptural Vitality
• Sabrina Inowlocki. Ancient apologetics and the bibliographic imagination.

• Marcello Fidanzio - The Great Isaiah Scroll
• Rebecca L Harris. Religious experience and divinization in the sectarian Dead Sea scrolls: Living in the liminal. Leiden: Brill, 2026.

• John Collins,
• Vladimir Olivero, 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader's Edition (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2025)
• David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz], author of The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables (De Gruyter, 2026)

SECOND DAY

• Jamal-Dominique Hopkins. Cultic spiritualization : Religious sacrifice in the Dead Sea scrolls. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2026
• Carmen Palmer. Gentile women in Qumran : Female converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026.

• Van Maaren. MArk
• William Bowes, John's Interpretation of Mark
• Amber M Dillon (Adjunct Faculty, New Testament, Denver Seminary). John the Baptist and composite intertextuality in the Fourth Gospel: The evangelist's archetypal witness. Leiden: Brill, 2026.

• Federico Adinolfi. The Contribution of Italian Scholarship to the Within Judaism Perspective.
• Jason Wendel. Luke and the Law: A Defence of Christian law-observance. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.

• Markus Tiwald. Early Judaism and the Beginnings of Christianity : common roots and the Parting of the Ways. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2026.
• Benjamin Sargent. The nature and significance of Ignatius of Antioch's use of Jewish Scripture : "we love the Prophets". London: T&T Clark, 2026.

THIRD DAY

• Giancarlo Lacerenza, Jews in Ancient Italy
• Jessica Dello Russo, A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome (Leiden: Brill, 2025)
• Maoz Kahana. Pagan Gods in Jewish Space: Greek and Roman Mythology in Early Modern Jewish Culture. Stanford University Press: 2026.

• JiSeong James Kwon. Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism (2025)
• Saqib Hussain (Loyola Marymount University). Wisdom in the Qur'an: Law and morality from the Bible to Late Antiquity. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2026.
• Isaac Oliver, "Upcoming events and publications of the Enoch Seminar"

• Jesse Mirotznik is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem <jesse.mirotznik@univie.ac.at> The Portrayal of Pagan Worship in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism Cambridge University Press, 2026.

or

9:00 - 9:40 9:40 - 10:20 10:20 - 11:00

11:10 - 11:50 11:50 - 12:30

1:30 - 2:10 2:50 - 3:30

9:00-9:15 - Welcome & Introduction

9:15-11am - 1^ session

• 1. The contribution of the Enoch Seminar (I) : Publications
• 2.
• 3.

11:15am-1pm -- First session (3 papers)

• 4.
• 5.
• 6.

Break

2:00pm - 3:15pm -- Third session (3 papers)

• 7.
• 8.
• 9.

3:15-3:30pm - Forthcoming publications by the Enoch Seminar

9:00-9:15 - Welcome & Introduction

9:15-11am - 1^ session

• 1. The contribution of the Enoch Seminar (I) : Publications
• 2. John Collins, author of Apocalypticism as a World View (2026)
• 3. David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz], author of The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables (De Gruyter, 2026)

11:15am-1pm -- First session (3 papers)

• 4.
• 5.
• 6.

Break

2:00pm - 3:45pm -- Third session (3 papers)

• 7.
• 8.
• 9.

3:15-3:30pm - Publications by the Enoch Seminar (II)

9:00 - 9:10 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION 9:10 - 9:40 Enoch Seminar Recent Publications 9:40 - 10:20 -- (1) SPEAKER 10:20 - 11 -- (2) SPeaker

11:20 - 12 -- (3) 12 - 12:40 (4)

1:40 - 2:20 (5) 2:20 - 3 (6) 3 - 3:30 - Enoch Seminar Forthcoming Publications

9:15 - 10 10 - 1);45

11 - 11:45 11:45 - 12:30

1:30 - 2:15 2:15 - 3:00

3:00 - 3:30

9:00 Introduction The contribution of the Enoch Seminar (II) : Meetings)

9:30 - 11 -- First session (3 papers)

11:15 - 12:45 -- Second Session (3 papers)

2pm - 3:30pm -- Third session (3 papers)

9:00 Introduction The contribution of the Enoch Seminar (II) : Meetings)

Forthcoming Meetings by the Enoch Seminar.

Total 18 papers

• Jason Wendel. Luke and the Law: A Defence of Christian law-observance. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.
• Van Maaren (?)
• Federico Adinolfi. Contribution of Italian Scholarship to the Within Judaism Perspective.

• Rebecca Harris - Qumran
• Carmen Palmer - Gentile Women in Qumran
• Marcello Fidanzio - The Great Isaiah Scroll

• Giancarlo Lacerenza, Jews in Ancient Italy

• Indy Najman, Scriptural Vitality
• JiSeong James Kwon. Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism (2025)

• John Collins, author of Apocalypticism as a World View (2026)
• David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz], author of The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables (De Gruyter, 2026)

!^ Session 25 year of The Enoch Semianr. A celebration Looking forward to Isaac Oliver. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, "Enoch Studies in the 2020s"

2^ Session -- Enoch

Mark Leuch

David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz]

Mcaskill

Lorenzo DiTommaso, Josephus, Apocalypticism

3^ Session

Hindy Najman

Stewart

Carmen Palmer, cpalmer4@stetson.edu, Gentile Women at Qumran.

4^ Sessions -- Studies on Christian Origins

Van Maaren, Mark within Judaism

Federico Adinolfi, "The Contribution of Italian Scholarship to the Within-Judaism Perspective" (20m)

Warren Carter; Ariel Feldman Grant Macaskill, author of The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity (Brill, 2024) JiSeong James Kwon

The online conference, to which all leading Enoch specialists will be invited, will discuss some of the key topics in Enoch research based on the most recent publications.

We are planning 6 sessions (2 hours each, with panels of 5/6 specialists)

1^ day (Mon Oct 5) 1. session (10am-noon EST) 2. session (1:30pm-3:30pm EST)

2^ day (Tue Oct 6) 3. session (10am-noon EST) 4. session (1:30pm-3:00pm EST)

3^ day (Wed Oct 7) 5. Enoch and the New Testament 6. 2 Enoch (1:30pm-3:00pm EST)

1st session

• Book of the Watchers

Presenters:

• @ <OK> Mark Leuchter, author of An Empire Fas and Wide (2024)
• @ ? Alexander McCarron, author of Textual evolution and growth of the Enochic Theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9 (2025)

Respondents:

• @ ? Amar Annus (amar.annus@ut.ee University of Tartu, Helsinki)
• ? ? Kelley Bautch
• ? ? Angela Kim Harkins
• ? ? Matthew Goff

2nd session =

• Book of Dreams / Epistle of Enoch / Book of Parables

Presenters:

• David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz], author of The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables (De Gruyter, 2026)
• Gabriele Boccaccini, author of Paolo di Tarso un ebreo del suo tempo (Rome: Carocci, 2025)
• Tyler Stewart, The Origin and Persistence of Evil in Galatians (2022)

Respondents:

• matthew Novenson?
• John. Barclay?
• Paula Fredriksen?

• (resp. Jim VanderKam? John Collins?
• Dorota Hartman, author of
• Matthew Korpman, author of

3rd session =

Aramaic Enoch

Presenters:

• Daniel A. Machiela, author of A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves: Manuscripts, Language, and Scribal Practices (Brill, 2023)
• Henryk Drawnel, editor of The Aramaic Books of Enoch and related literature from Qumran (Brill, 2024)

• Respondents:
• Mladen Popovic (?), author of "Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis" (2025)

4th session =

• Ethiopic Enoch

Presenters:

• Vladimir Olivero [vladimirolivero@fas.harvard.edu], author of 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader's Edition (SBL Press, 2025).

Respondents:

• Loren Stuckenbruck
• Ted Erho [ted.erho@uni-hamburg.de]
• Massimo Villa,
• Pierluigi Piovanelli,
• Wendy Laura Belcher [wbelcher@princeton.edu])

5th session

• 2 Enoch:

Presenters:

• Grant Macaskill, author of The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity (Brill, 2024)
• Daniel Olson, author of Second Enoch: A Samaritan Apocalypse (Brill, 2025)

Respondents: Andrei Orlov?

6th session =

• Enoch & the New Testament

Presenters:

• Wunrow, Stephen C. / Heavenly Space in Hebrews and its Jewish and Christian environment (London: T&T Clark, 2025) / Stephen.wunrow@my.wheaton.edu
• Sofonit Abebe, author of Apocalyptic Spatiality in 1 Peter and Selected 1 Enoch Literature: A Comparative Analysis (Mohr Siebeck, 2024)
• Giulio Mariotti, author of L'elezione, il dualismo, il tempo. Leggere 2 Tessalonicesi nel giudaismo del secondo tempio (2024)

Respondents:

• Cana Werman, author of "1 Enoch and the New Testament" (2025)
• A-J Levine?
• Gabriele Boccaccini

-- The Place of Enoch in Second Temple Jewish Literature : General Introductions : Adriano Virgili -- Matthew Goff -- James Davila

-- Book of Watchers: Mark Leuchter -- Alexander McCarron -- Amar Annus (amar.annus@ut.ee University of Tartu, Helsinki) resp. Kelley Bautch, Angela Hrakins, John Collins? Hindy Najman?

-- Animal Apocalypse / Epistle of Enoch / Book of Parables : Dorota Hartman -- Matthew Korpman -- David Cielontko [cielontko@etf.cuni.cz] (resp. Jim VanderKam

-- Aramaic Enoch at Qumran : Henryk Drawnel -- Machiela -- (resp. Jutta Hokiranta, Jim VanderKam) Popovic, Tigchelaar

-- Studies of Ethiopic Enoch: Vladimir Olivero [vladimirolivero@fas.harvard.edu] -- Ted Erho [ted.erho@uni-hamburg.de] -- Loren Stuckenbruck -- Massimo Villa -- (respondent Pierluigi Piovanelli & Wendy Laura Belcher [wbelcher@princeton.edu])

-- 2 Enoch : Macaskill -- Olson -- Andrei Orlov Andreas Wagner (deceased) -- (resp. Badalova Geller? )

-- Enoch and New Testament : Cana Werman -- Sofonit Abebe - Giulio Mariotti (resp. Gabriele Boccaccini