Fourth Enoch Seminar (2007 Camaldoli), conference

Monastery of Camaldoli, Italy

Participants at the Fourth Enoch Seminar

Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan

The Fourth Enoch Seminar (July 8-12, 2007) is an international Conference organized by the Enoch Seminar.

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Overview

The Fourth Enoch Seminar was held in Camaldoli [Italy] on "Enoch and the Mosaic Torah."

The success of the new format and the friendly atmosphere of the Foresteria of the Monastery of Camaldoli convinced the organizers to repeat the experience at the same location with a larger group of participants.

The Fourth Enoch Seminar was organized by the University of Michigan (Dept. of Near Eastern Studies) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, in collaboration with the Camaldoli Order, the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus), the Jewish Community of Florence, and the Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana of Ravenna. It focused on the interaction between Mosaic and Enochic traditions in Second Temple Judaism and on the synthesis between them in the Book of Jubilees.

28 papers (and 23 short papers) circulated in advance and were discussed at the conference in plenary sessions and five discussion groups, at the introduction of 6 respondents. In attendance were 84 scholars from 17 countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the Vatican). Among the newcomers: Betsy Halpern Amaru, Darrell Bock, Calum Carmichael, Gene Davenport, Lutz Doering, David Jackson, Grant Macaskill, Bilhah Nitzan, Eyal Regev, Michael Segal, Joseph Sievers, and Azzan Yadin.

The last day of the Seminar was held in nearby Ravenna at the invitation of Mauro Perani (University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus), President of the European Association for Jewish Studies.

The Proceedings of the Fourth Enoch Seminar were published by Eerdmans in 2009; see Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (2009 Boccaccini, Ibba), edited volume. The short papers appeared in a special issue of the journal Henoch Enoch and Jubilees: Short Papers from the Fourth Enoch Seminar (2009 Bertalotto, Hanneken), edited volume.

Participants

1. Betsy Halpern Amaru, emeritus, Vassar College, USA
2. Luca Arcari, University of Naples, Italy
3. Daniel Assefa, Ethiopia, France
4. Christophe Batsch, University of Lille, France
5. Albert I. Baumgarten, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
6. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward’s University, USA
7. Andreas Bedenbender, Humboldt University, Germany
8. Jonathan Ben-Dov, University of Haifa, Israel
9. Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra, CNRS, France
10. John Bergsma, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA
11. Christoph Berner, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
12. Pierpaolo Bertalotto, Rice University, USA
13. Katell Berthelot, CNRS, France
14. Siam Bhayro, University of Cambridge, England
15. Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
16. Darrell Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary, USA
17. Gianantonio Borgonovo, Catholic University Milan, Italy
18. Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley, USA
19. James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
20. Calum Carmichael, Cornell University, USA
21. Esther Chazon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
22. Michael Daise, William and Mary College, USA
23. Gene Davenport, Lambuth University, USA
24. Michael Davis, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
25. Marcello Del Verme, University of Naples, Italy
26. Karoly Dobos, Catholic University Budapest, Hungary
27. Lutz Doering, King’s College London, England
28. Henryk Drawnel, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
29. Torleif Elgvin, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Norway
30. John Endres, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, USA
31. Esther Eshel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
32. Hanan Eshel, (1958-2010), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
33. Daniel K. Falk, University of Oregon, USA
34. Crispin Fletcher-Louis, St Mary’s London, England
35. Ida Fröhlich, Catholic University of Budapest, Hungary
36. Claudio Gianotto, University of Turin, Italy
37. Charles Gieschen, Concordia College, USA
38. William Gilders, Emory University, USA
39. Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, England
40. Maxine Grossman, University of Maryland, USA
41. Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
42. Martha Himmelfarb, Princeton University, USA
43. Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Crichton College, USA
44. Giovanni Ibba, Central Italy Theological Seminary, Italy
45. Jutta Jokiranta, University of Helsinki, Finland
46. Robert Kraft, University of Pennsylvania, USA
47. Helge S. Kvanvig, University of Oslo, Norway
48. Erik W. Larson, Florida International University, USA
49. William Loader, Murdoch University, Australia
50. Grant Macaskill, St Andrews University, Scotland
51. Luca Mazzinghi, Central Italy Theological Seminary, Italy
52. Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Canada
53. George W.E. Nickelsburg, emeritus, University of Iowa, USA
54. Bilhah Nitzan, emeritus, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
55. Eric Noffke, Rome, Italy
56. Daniel Olson, ,
57. Andrei A. Orlov, Marquette University, USA
58. Dorothy Peters, Trinity Western University, Canada
59. Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
60. Stephen Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel
61. Claire Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel
62. Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa, Canada
63. Annette Y. Reed, McMaster University, Canada
64. Eyal Regev, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
65. Jacques van Ruiten, University of Groningen, Netherlands
66. Paolo Sacchi, emeritus, University of Turin, Italy
67. Stephane Saulnier, Newman Theological College Edmonton, Canada
68. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, USA
69. James Scott, Trinity Western University, Canada
70. Michael Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
71. Aharon Shemesh, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
72. Joseph Sievers, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Vatican
73. David W. Suter, Saint Martin’s College, USA
74. Shemaryahu Talmon, (1920-2010), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
75. Sam Thomas, California Lutheran University, USA
76. Cristiana Tretti, Milan, Italy
77. James C. VanderKam, Notre Dame University, USA
78. Pieter M. Venter, University of Pretoria, South Africa
79. Benjamin Wold, University of Tübingen, Germany
80. Benjamin G. Wright, Lehigh University, USA
81. Azzan Yadin, Rutgers University, USA

Guests

• Rav Joseph Levi, Florence Jewish Community, Italy
• Mauro Perani, University of Bologna, Italy
• Ralph Williams, University of Michigan, USA

Secretaries

• J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan, USA
• Todd R. Hanneken, University of Notre Dame, USA