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The '''Enoch Seminar''' is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, who share the results of their research in the field and biennially meet to discuss topics of common interest.
[[File:Palazzo Corsi Salviati.jpg|thumb|200px|[[First Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Corsi Salviati, Florence, Italy (2001)]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, Founder of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Palazzo Sullam.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Second Enoch Seminar]], at Palazzo Sullam, Venice, Italy (2003)]]
[[File:Bautch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward's University, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Monastero Camaldoli.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Third Enoch Seminar|Third]], [[Fourth Enoch Seminar|Fourth]], and [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]], at the Monastery of Camaldoli, Italy (2005, 2007, 2013)]]
[[File:Stuckenbruck.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar]]
[[File:Cappella Cangiani.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Fifth Enoch Seminar]], at Cappella Cangiati, Naples, Italy (2009)]]
[[File:2016 Stuckenbruck Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume|2016]]]]
[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Sixth Enoch Seminar|Sixth]] and [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]], at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy (2011, 2015)]]
[[File:2016 Boccaccini Zurawski.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2014]]]]
[[File:2013 Henze Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume|2013]]]]
[[File:2Enoch Orlov Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|2012]]


==Sixth Meeting in Milan (in memory of [[Hanan Eshel]])==
[[File:2009 Boccaccini Ibba.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume|2009]]]]


Second Baruch and Fourth Ezra: Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel
[[File:2007 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume|2007]]]]
[[File:2007 Boccaccini Collins.jpg|thumb|150px|2007]]
[[File:2005b Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|150px|2005]]
[[File:2005 Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume|2005]]]]


Promoted by the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan.


Sponsored by the [[Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies]], Mrs. Gabriella Nangeroni (in memory of her husband Alessandro Nangeroni), and the Dioceses of Milan (in collaboration with the Catholic University of Milan and the Ambrosian Library).
The '''Enoch Seminar''' is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, who share the results of their research in the field and meet to discuss topics of common interest. In addition to the biennial ''Enoch Seminars'', the group has launched three other series of international meetings: the biennial [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (since 2006), the yearly [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (since 2012), and the occasional [[Enoch Colloquia]] (since 2017). The group also runs an online journal ([http://www.enochseminar.org Enoch Seminar Online]), [http://www.4enoch.org 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism] (since 2009), and the yearly [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]] (since 2012).


Date: June 26-30, 2011
==History==


Place: Villa Cagnola at Gazzada, near Milan, Italy
Founded in 2001 by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], the Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile to the Bar-Kochba revolt—the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism have their roots. The goal is to tear down the misleading walls of separation that still divide this field of research, recovering the unity and integrity of the period. Enoch is the symbol of this inter-canonical and inter-disciplinary effort, as he is present of each and all the canons that anachronistically divide sources from the period: Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, etc.
http://www.villacagnola.it/


[Closest international airport Malpensa-Milano]
Participation at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who have completed their PhD. To graduate students and PhD candidates, the Enoch Seminar offers a biennial meeting (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).


'''Lodging (including meals)'''
The Enoch Seminar is chaired by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan) and is made possible by fundings from the University of Michigan and from the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment.


Contribution (4 nights lodging, including meals)
Enoch Seminar Board of Directors:
To be paid in Milan at the Conference.
*[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, USA
*000 -- Authors of major papers
*[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward’s University, USA
*150 euros -- Respondents (major papers), emeriti
*[[Lorenzo DiTommaso]], Concordia University Montreal, Canada
*200 euros -- Authors of short papers, readers
*[[Esther Eshel]], Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*250 euros -- Attendees, spouses, etc. (children [age 6-17]: 100 euros; under 5 years old: free)
*[[Matthias Henze]], Rice University, USA
*[[Pierluigi Piovanelli]], University of Ottawa, Canada
*[[Carlos A. Segovia]], Camilo José Cela University, Spain
*[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], University of Munich, Germany
*[[Jason M. Zurawski]], University of Groningen, Netherlands


'''Registration'''
==Meetings (chronology)==


Registration for the Sixth Enoch Seminar is officially closed.
====2001====


Registration fees (Enoch Seminar Membership)  
*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''
To be paid by January 2011:
*$200 - Newcomers
*$175 - Attended 1 Enoch Seminar
*$150 - Attended 2 Enoch Seminars
*$125 - Attended 3 Enoch Seminars
*$100 - Attended 4 Enoch Seminars / or emeriti
*$000 - Attended 5 Enoch Seminars


If you have any questions, please contact the secretary of the Seminar, [mailto:jasonzur@umich.edu Jason Zurawski].
====2003====


===Schedule===
*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''


==== SATURDAY JUNE 25, 2011 ====
====2005====


Arrivals at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (optional)
*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''


Lunch (euro 20, optional)
====2006====


Buffet Dinner (6 to 7pm, optional, euro 10)
*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]] 


====''SUNDAY JUNE 26, 2011''====
====2007====  


Morning: Arrivals at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada
*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''
(The members of the Seminar are welcome to arrive on the previous day, if they wish)


1:15pm - Lunch (for all participants)
====2008====


*'''Plenary session'''
*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
3:30pm-4:45pm – Opening of the Conference


Welcome by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] and Mons. Luigi Misto’
====2009====


''In memory of [[Hanan Eshel]]'' (Gabriele Boccaccini)
*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''


Key Address - [[Matthias Henze]] (Chair of the Conference):
====2010====
“2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: The status quaestionis”


Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)
*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]


*'''Session #1: “Pre–70 Jewish Literature and 2B/4E”'''
====2011====


Group A: [[Devorah Dimant]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Dimant.pdf "Qumran and Its Sequel: Jewish Apocalypses Composed in Hebrew"]'''
*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''


Respondents: [[Martin Rösel]] and [[Daniel K. Falk]]
====2012====


Group B: [[Gabriele Boccaccini]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Boccaccini.pdf "Who’s Afraid of Enochic Judaism? A Reading of 4 Ezra in Light of 1 Enoch and Paul"]'''
*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


Respondents: [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]] and [[Carol A. Newsom]]
====2013====


5:15pm-6:35pm - Plenary session
*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
Presentation and discussion of two papers:
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]
10min presentation by Devorah Dimant + 30min Q&A –
10min presentation by Gabriele Boccaccini + 30min Q&A


6:45pm–8pm – Group discussion
====2014====
Two parallel groups (focusing on Dimant and Boccaccini, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper - 10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion


8:15pm Dinner
*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


====''MONDAY JUNE 27, 2011''====
====2015====


8am Breakfast
*2015 (June 15–19; Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?''
*2015 (June; Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''
*2015 (June; Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2015 (Nov; Atlanta, GA) - 4th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


*'''Session #2: “2B/4E and Apocalyptic/1 Enoch”'''
====2016====


Group A: [[John J. Collins]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/CollinsJJ.pdf "Enoch and Ezra"]'''
*2016 (May; Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Jun; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Jun;  Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2016 (Nov; San Antonio, TX) - 5th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


Respondents: [[Eric F. Mason]] and [[Pierluigi Piovanelli]]
====2017====


Group B: [[Hindy Najman]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Najman.pdf "Con-figuring 4Ezra"]'''
*2017 (Jun 11-16; Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2017 (Jun 18-23; Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]]: ''From tôrāh to the Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''
*2017 (Nov 16-18; Boston, MA) - [[1st Enoch Colloquium]] and 6th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


Respondents: [[James R. Davila]] and [[Benjamin G. Wright]]
====2018====


8:30am-9:50am - Plenary session
*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - Seventh Enoch Graduate Seminar
Presentation and discussion of two papers:
*2018 (June 10-15; Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
10min presentation by John Collins + 30min Q&A –
*2018 (June 17-22; Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]:''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
10min presentation by Hindy Najman + 30min Q&A
*2018 (Nov 17-20; Denver, CO) - 7th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


10:00am-11:15am - Group discussion
====2019====
Two parallel groups (focusing on Collins and Najman, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper -
10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion


*2019 (June 9-14; Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''
*2019 (June 16-20; Gazzada, Italy) - [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2019 (Nov 23-26; San Diego, CA) - 8th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)
====2020====


*2020 (June 29 - July 2; online) - [[2020 Enoch Seminar Online]]: ''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity''


*'''First Reading Session/Exegetical Workshop'''
*2020 (Oct; online) - Conference on Aramaic Enoch
11:45am - 1pm - Four parallel groups, two on 2 Baruch and two on 4 Ezra, each led by two exegetes/readers in each group
*2020 (Nov 11-12; online) - Fourth Enoch Colloquium and 9th [[Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL]]


(a) Text: 4 Ezra 7:28-34 (“My Son the Messiah”)
====2021====


Reader #1: [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] / Reader #2: [[Johannes Tromp]]
* 2021 (Jan 11-14; online) - Nangeroni meeting (online) on John the Baptist, in collaborazione with the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus


(b) Text: 4 Ezra 13:25-45 (The Man from the Sea)
* 2021 - (Apr 29-30; online) - Eighth Enoch Graduate Seminar 


Reader #1: [[David W. Suter]] / Reader #2: [[Silviu Bunta]]
* 2021 (May 23-27; online) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception'', in collaboration with the University of Munich, Germany


(c) Text: 2 Baruch 29:1-30:5 (“The Messiah Will Begin to be Revealed”)
* 2021 (July 18-22; online) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''


Reader #1: [[Matthias Henze]] / Reader #2: [[Azzan Yadin]]
* 2021 (Oct 25-27; online) -- ''Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew?''
* 2021 (Nov 19; San Antonio) -- ''Luke and Acts With(in) Second Temple Judaism''


(d) Text: 2 Baruch 39:1-40:4 (Four Kingdoms and the Messiah)
====2022====


Reader #1: [[Martin Rösel]] / Reader #2: [[Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar]]
* 2022 (Jan 10-13; online) -- Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise (Jan 10-13, 2022)


* Jan 31-Feb 3: Present and Future Perspectives on the Study of Second Temple Judaism in Ibero-America


1:15pm Lunch
* March 3: RES Virtual Review - Intro to Apocalypticism (Oegema)


* April 11-13: Fellows closing with John Collins/AJ Levine
*April 28: Pharisee in J&C dialogue/ RES Virtual Review - Review of Pharisees (Sievers & Levine)


*'''Short papers'''
* 2022 (May 29 - Jun 3; Norway) -- "Virtus et Humanitas: Virtues and Values in Greco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Paideia at the Turn of the Common Area"
3:30pm-4:45pm – Parallel groups with three papers each –
10m presentations by each author +15m Q&A


* 2022 (June 26-30; Rome, Italy) -- Luke and Acts Wit(in) Second Temple Judaism


Group 1: Chair: Benjamin Wright
* July 14: RES Virtual Review


Carla Sulzbach, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Sulzbach.pdf "The Fate of Jerusalem in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: From Earth to Heaven and Back?"]'''
* October 6: RES Virtual Review


Benjamin Reynolds, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Reynolds.pdf "The Otherworldly Mediators in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch"]'''
* October 17-18: MCECS Music & Christianity


Veronika Bachmann, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Bachmann.pdf "Good Times, Bad Times and Their Imperatives – A Comparison Between 4 Ezra and the Book of the Watchers"]'''
* November 18: ES Colloquium at SBL
... ...


J. Harold Ellens, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Ellens.pdf "4 Ezra and Apocalyptic as Delusion"]'''
==== 2023 ====


Jason Zurawski, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Zurawski.pdf "The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14"]'''
==== ====


* ???? (Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''


Group 2: Chair: Pierluigi Piovanelli
====2024====


Eric F. Mason, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Mason.pdf "2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and the Epistle to the Hebrews: Three Approaches to Interpretation of Ps 104:4"]'''
====2025====


Jared Ludlow, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Ludlow.pdf "Death and the Afterlife in 2 Baruch"]'''
====2026====


Eugen Pentiuc, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Pentiuc.pdf "The Nature of the Resurrected Bodies in 2 Baruch and New Testament"]'''
* 2021 (June 20; online) -- Happy Birthday, Enoch Seminar! (25th anniversary)


Andreas Bedenbender, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Bedenbender.pdf "The Woman Who Anoints Jesus for his Burial (Mark 14) and the Woman Who Laments her Dead Son (4 Ezra 9–10) – Twice the Same Person?"]'''
====2031====


Calum Carmichael, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Carmichael.pdf "Days of Creation in 2 Esdras 6:38-59 and John 1:1-5:1-47"]'''
* 2021 (June 20; online) -- Happy Birthday, Enoch Seminar! (30th anniversary)


Megan Williams, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Williams.pdf "Parcere subiectis: Rome's Universal Empire and Jewish Apocalyptic Theodicy in Romans, Revelation, and 4 Ezra”]'''
==Meetings of the Enoch Seminar (2001-)==


*2001 (Florence, Italy) - [[First Enoch Seminar]]: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''
**[[The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), edited volume]]


Group 3: Chair: Ziony Zevit
*2003 (Venice, Italy) - [[Second Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''
**[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume]]


Mark Whitters, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Whitters.pdf “Ezra, According to Second Baruch”]'''
*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Third Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''
**[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume]]


Paul Mandel, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Mandel.pdf "Apocalypse and Scribe: Enoch, Baruch and Ezra and the Second-Temple ‘scribal’ tradition"]'''
*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Fourth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''
**[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume]]
**[[Enoch and Jubilees (2009 Bertalotto/Hanneken), edited volume]]


Daniel K. Falk, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Falk.pdf "Penitence and Supplication in 4 Ezra"]'''
*2009 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
**[[New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012 Orlov, Boccaccini), edited volume]]
**[[Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam (2011 Zurawski), edited volume]]


Balázs Tamási, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Tamasi.pdf "Baruch as Prophet in 2 Baruch"]'''
*2011 (Milan, Italy) - [[Sixth Enoch Seminar]]: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''
**[[4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (2013 Henze, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
**[[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]


Laura Bizzarro, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Bizzarro.pdf "The 'Meaning of History' in the 5th vision of the Book of 4Ezra"]'''
*2013 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Seventh Enoch Seminar]]: ''Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels''
**[[Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (2016 Stuckenbruck, Boccaccini), edited volume]]


Basil Lourié, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Louri%E9.pdf "The Calendar Implied in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: Two Modifications of the One Scheme"]'''
*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Eighth Enoch Seminar]]: ''Apocalypticism and Mysticism''


*2017 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Ninth Enoch Seminar]] - ''From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity''


Group 4: Chair: Kelley Coblentz Bautch
*2019 (Florence, Italy) - [[Tenth Enoch Seminar]] - ''Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century''


Frances Flannery, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Flannery.pdf “Birthing Cities and Birthing Bodies”]'''
*2021 (Munich, Germany) - [[Eleventh Enoch Seminar]] - ''Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception''


Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/DeLong.pdf "'Ask a Woman': The Literary Motif of Childbearing in 4 Ezra"]'''
==Enoch Seminar [[Nangeroni Meetings]] (2012-)==


Stephen Pfann, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Pfann.pdf "The Use of Cryptographic and Esoteric Scripts In Second Temple Judaism and the Surrounding Cultures"]'''
*2012 (Milan, Italy) - [[First Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview''
**[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
*2014 (Dor, Israel) - [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission''
*2014 (Rome, Italy) - [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author''
**[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]
*2015 (Milan, Italy) - [[Fourth Nangeroni Meeting]]: "Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?"
*2015 (Naples, Italy) - [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts''
*2016 (Camaldoli, Italy) - [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''John the Jew''
*2016 (Rome, Italy) - [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Early Reception of Paul the Jew''
*2017 (Florence, Italy) - [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins''
*2018 (Milan, Italy) - [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)''
*2018 (Rome, Italy) - [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Gender and Second Temple Judaism''
*2019 (Gazzada, Italy) -  [[Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting]]: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, ''New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II''
*2021 (Berlin, Germany) - [[Twelfth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity''
*2021 (Naples, Italy) - [[Thirteenth Nangeroni Meeting]]: ''Sibylline Oracles''


==Meetings of the [[Enoch Colloquia]] (2017-)==


Group 5: Chair: Jack Levison
*2017 (Cambridge, MA, USA; November)
*2018 (Denver, CO;November)


Rivka Nir, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Nir.pdf "What Did the Christians Find in the Letter of Baruch that Attracted Them?”]'''
<in preparation>
*2020 (Boston, MA, USA; November)


Daniel Gurtner, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Gurtner.pdf "Eschatological Rewards for the Righteous in Second Baruch"]'''
==Meetings of the [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]] (2006-)==
*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - [[First Enoch Graduate Seminar]] 
*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - [[Second Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - [[Third Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2012 (Notre Dame, IN) - [[Fourth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2014 (Montreal, Canada) - [[Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]
*2016 (Austin, TX) - [[Sixth Enoch Graduate Seminar]]


Bilhah Nitzan, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Nitzan.pdf "Apocalyptic Ideas in Fourth Ezra in Comparison with the Dead Sea Scrolls"]'''
<In preparation:>
*2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
*2020 (Boston, MA)


Bill Loader, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Loader.pdf "Sexual Issues in 2 Baruch"]'''
==Enoch Seminar Receptions at the SBL (2012-) ==


Lorenzo DiTommaso, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/DiTommaso.pdf "Who Is The 'I' of 4 Ezra?"]'''
*2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st SBL Annual Meeting 
*2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd SBL Annual Meeting
*2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd SBL Annual Meeting
*2015 (Atlanta, GA) - 4th SBL Annual Meeting
*2016 (San Antonio, TX) - 5th SBL Annual Meeting
*2017 (Boston, MA) - 6th SBL Annual Meeting


James Hamilton Charlesworth, '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/short/Charlesworth.pdf “4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Archaeology and Elusive Answers to Our Perennial Questions”]'''
<In preparation:>
*2018 (Denver, CO) - 7th SBL Annual Meeting
*2019 (San Diego, CA) - 8th SBL Annual Meeting


==Publications from the Enoch Seminar==


Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Turin: Zamorani, 2005) [=Henoch
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005)
#The First Enoch Graduate Seminar at the University of Michigan: 1. Angels and Demons (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2006) [=Henoch 28.2 (2006)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins (eds.), The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba (eds.), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
#Gabriele Boccaccini, Pierpaolo Bertalotto and Todd Hanneken (eds.), Enoch and Jubilees (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009) [=Henoch 31.1 (2009)]
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.1 (2011)]
# Across the Jewish-Christian Divide: Perspectives from the Enoch Graduate Seminar of Budapest (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.2 (2011)]
#Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
#Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
#Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
#[[The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume]]
#[[Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume]]


=="The [[Enoch Seminar]]", an article by Philip Jenkins (30 May 2016)==


*'''Session #3: “A close reading of 2B/4E”'''
One of the most exciting areas today in Biblical scholarship (broadly defined) is the Enoch Seminar. Founded in 2001, it originally focused on the literature associated with the patriarch Enoch, but has since branched out massively, almost to become a field in its own right. The changing limits of that field are fascinating, both for their present state and their emerging dimensions.


Group A: [[Lutz Doering]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Doering.pdf "The Letter of Baruch and its Role in 2Baruch"]'''
The main Seminar meetings occur regularly in a variety of international settings, and are strictly intended for credentialed scholars, by invitation only. The actual roster of experts varies widely on each occasion, but with some continuity. Since 2006, there is also a graduate seminar that meets every two years, most recently last week in Austin TX, where I had the privilege of serving as a faculty mentor.
So what does the Enoch Seminar do? It describes its topic areas as “Second Temple Judaism, Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins,” and that staggeringly broad reach is deliberate. The basic theme is that the Jewish world between, say, 300 BC and 200 AD, included a great many ideas and themes, some of which fit well into standard and orthodox views of Jewish history, but others would be viewed as Christian, Jewish-Christian, Gnostic or Jewish-sectarian.


Respondents: [[Christfried Böttrich]] and [[Archie Wright]]
At the time, though, those various ingredients all belonged in one common cauldron of ideas, without hard boundaries separating them. Nor was it obvious which elements were going to become components of world religions, and which would be consigned to obscure heresies. The more you investigate this period, moreover, the more absurd become the traditional divisions that scholars once drew about which texts were “more Jewish,” and which Gentile or Hellenistic. (See for instance 150 years of debate on the Gospel of John).
One theme that emerges repeatedly: just because an idea or theme does not fit within the mold of later Rabbinic Judaism does not mean that its origins were not thoroughly Jewish.


Group B: [[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Stuckenbruck.pdf "Ezra's Vision of the Lady: Form and Function of a Turning Point"]'''
This is, in fact, one of the most critical eras in the history of religion. It also left a vast range of writings, including standard Jewish and Christian texts, but also a range of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. You get a sense of the scope we are dealing with here from the various edited volumes that have emerged from the Seminar. In 2009, for instance, the main Seminar met in Italy, and its discussions appeared under the title New Perspectives on 2 Enoch, edited by Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini. In 2012, again, the Seminar pursued the theme The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, and that is now the title of the just published collection, edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski. For anyone working in the areas of early Jewish history and Christian origins, these collections are just indispensable.


Respondents: [[Lester L. Grabbe]] and [[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]]
To see what younger scholars are up to now, you can check out the titles of the recent Austin papers here. I stress, just the titles, not the full-length papers. All are very much works in progress, and the authors don’t want to give public access to works that are still in the course of development. Nor, understandably, do they want other people purloining their ideas before they can be properly published. But the list of topics is very wide, and deeply impressive, as was the dazzling diversity of themes. And so was the level of execution and presentation. If this is the next scholarly generation, this is wonderful news.


5:15pm-6:35pm - Plenary session
I had my own particular favorites from the papers presented, but won’t embarrass the ones I select or ignore!
Presentation and discussion of two papers:
One question that does occur. Just glance at the range of eras, themes and societies covered in this conference. How on earth would we find a single overarching description for all these, if we did not use the convenience term “Enochic”?
10min presentation by Lutz Doering + 30min Q&A –
10min presentation by Loren Stuckenbruck + 30min Q&A


6:45pm–8pm – Group Discussion
If you trace the Enoch field through the past sixteen years, it is intriguing to see the directions in which research has been leading, logically and almost inevitably. Today, the main area of focus is shifting to Islamic origins, and the roots of Islam in Jewish and Christian soil. If recent seminars are anything to go by, watch for major insights and unsuspected connections in that area.
Two parallel groups (focusing of Doering and Stuckenbruck, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper –
And where next, we ask?
10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion


If you want to see the cutting edge actually cutting, this is where it is happening.


8:15pm Dinner
== Participants ==
 
====''TUESDAY JUNE 28, 2011''====
 
7:00am Breakfast
 
Trip to Milan (train to Milan leaves at 7:45 and arrives in Milan at 8:55). Subway (Green line) to "S. Ambrogio".
 
*9:30am-1:00pm -- '''Public session at the Catholic University of Milan'''
 
"End of Times: Fear or Hope" / "Fine dei tempi: tra paura e speranza"
 
*9:30-10 - Welcome of the authorities.
10-12 - Panel
 
[[Marco Rizzi]], ''Migrazioni dell'Anticristo: sulle apocalissi europee''
 
[[James H. Charlesworth]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Charlesworth.pdf "From Early Judaism to Today: Does the Concept of the End Elicit Fear or Hope?"]'''
 
[[Giuseppe Visonà]], ''«Non berrò più del frutto della vite...» (Mc 14,25): la grande speranza''
 
[[Lawrence H. Schiffman]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Schiffman.pdf "Catastrophe or Utopia: The End of Days in Rabbinic Literature"]'''
 
12:00-1:00 - Discussion
 
1:15-2:15 -- Reception at the Catholic University
 
2:15-3:15 -- Visit of St. Ambrose.
 
Subway (Green line to "Cadorna," connection with the Red line to "Cordusio")
 
3:45-5:30 –- '''Session at the Ambrosian Library''' (Sala delle Accademie)
 
(Matthias Henze, Chair)
 
*The 2 Baruch manuscript at the Ambrosiana Library ([[Gianantonio Borgonovo]])
*Variants and Variance in the Reception History of 2 Baruch ([[Liv Ingeborg Lied]])
*Panel: The Current Scholarly Debate on 2 Baruch ([[George Nickelsburg]], [[Daniel Boyarin]], [[John J. Collins]])
 
5:30-9:00pm - Free Time
 
Visit of the Ambrosian Library and Art Museum
 
*9:00pm - Meeting at "Piazza Castello" (near the fountain). Bus back to Gazzada
 
====''WEDNESDAY JUNE 29, 2011''====
 
 
8am Breakfast
 
 
*'''Session #4: “2B/4E and Early Christian Literature”'''
 
Group A: [[Adela Yarbro Collins]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/CollinsAY.pdf "The Uses of Apocalyptic Eschatology"]'''
 
Respondents: [[Adele Reinhartz]] and [[Jacques van Ruiten]]
 
Group B: [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Nickelsburg.pdf "A New Testament Reader’s Guide to Second Baruch, or, A Second Baruch Reader’s Guide to the New Testament"]'''
 
Respondents: [[David W. Suter]] and [[Randall Chesnutt]]
 
8:35am-9:50am - Plenary session
Presentation and discussion of two papers:
10min presentation by Adela Yarbo Collins + 30min Q&A –
10min presentation by George Nickelsburg + 30min Q&A
 
10:00am-11:15am -  Group discussion
Two parallel groups (focusing on Yarbro Collns and Nickelsburg, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper –
10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion
 
 
Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)
 
 
*'''Second Reading Session/Exegetical Workshop'''
11:45am - 1pm - Four parallel groups, two on 2 Baruch and two on 4 Ezra, each led by two exegetes/readers in each group
 
(a) Text: 4 Ezra 10:25-28, 51-59 (The Vision of the Woman)
 
Reader #1: [[Esther Chazon]] / Reader #2: [[Carla Sulzbach]]
 
(b) Text: 4 Ezra 14:37-48 (The Ninety-Four Books)
 
Reader #1: [[Todd Hannekem]] (Gregory) / Reader #2:
 
(c) Text: 2 Baruch 49:1-51:6 (The Shape of the Resurrected)
 
Reader #1: [[Liv Ingeborg Lied]] / Reader #2: [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]]
 
(d) Text: 2 Baruch 77:11-78:7, 87:1 (The Epistle of Baruch)
 
Reader #1: [[Michael Satlow]] / Reader #2: [[Shayna Sheinfeld]]
 
 
1:15pm Lunch
 
 
*'''Plenary session'''
3:30pm - 4:45pm – General Assembly
The Future of the Enoch Seminar / the Enoch Graduate Seminar / 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins
 
 
Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)
 
 
*'''Session #5: “2B/4E and Rabbinic Literature”'''
 
Group A: [[Daniel Boyarin]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Boyarin.pdf "Judaism, the Director‘s Cut: Enoch, Ezra, and the Jewishness of 'High Christology'"]'''
 
Respondents: [[Azzan Yadin]] and [[Paul Mandel]]
 
Group B: [[Steven D. Fraade]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Fraade.pdf "4 Ezra and 2 Baruch with the (Dis-) Advantage of Rabbinic Hindsight"]'''
 
Respondents: [[Michael Satlow]] and [[Johannes Tromp]]
 
5:15pm-6:35pm - Plenary session
Presentation and discussion of two papers:
10min presentation by Daniel Boyarin + 30min Q&A –
10min presentation by Steven Fraade + 30min Q&A
 
6:45pm-8pm - Group discussion
Two parallel groups (focusing on Boyarin and Fraade, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper –
10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion
 
 
8:15pm Dinner
 
====''THURSDAY JUNE 30, 2011''====
 
*'''Session #6: “The Nachleben of 2B/4E”'''
 
Group A: [[Liv Ingeborg Lied]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Lied.pdf "Nachleben and Textual Identity: Variants and Variance in the Reception History of 2 Baruch"]'''
 
Respondents: [[Jeff Anderson]] and [[Robert A. Kraft]]
 
Group B: [[Karina M. Hogan]], '''[http://www.enochseminar.org/PDFsMilan2011/Hogan.pdf "The Preservation of 4 Ezra in the Vulgate: Thanks to Ambrose, not Jerome"]'''
 
Respondents: [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] and [[John R. Levison]]
 
8:30am-9:50am - Plenary session
Presentation and discussion of two papers:
10min presentation by Liv Ingeborg Lied + 30min Q&A –
10min presentation by Karina Hogan + 30min Q&A
 
10:00am-11:15am - Group discussion
Two parallel groups (focusing on Lied and Hogan, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper –
10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion
 
 
Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)
 
 
*'''Plenary Session'''
11:45am-12:20pm - Wrap-up session and conclusions of the Seminar
 
12::30pm Lunch
 
Afternoon: Tour (optional, 60 euros):
 
BOAT TRIP ON LAGO MAGGIORE (Borromean Islands)
 
8pm – Dinner (free for all participants)
 
====''FRIDAY JULY 1, 2011''====
 
8am - Breakfast
 
Departures
 
===Participants (2011 Milan)===
 
*[[Jeff S. Anderson]], Wayland Baptist University, USA (reg. 12/9/10)
 
*[[Daniel Assefa]], Capuchin Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Ethiopia (reg. 12/30/10)
 
*[[Veronika Bachmann]], University of Zurich, Switzerland (reg. 12/22/10)
 
*[[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]], St. Edward's University, USA (reg. 1/3/11)
 
*[[Giovanni Bazzana]], Harvard University, USA (reg. 1/31/11)
 
*[[Andreas Bedenbender]], Dortmund, Germany (reg. 1/2/11)
 
*[[Laura Bizzarro]], Universidad Catolica, Argentina (reg. 2/22/11)
 
*[[Gabriele Boccaccini]], University of Michigan, USA (reg. 12/8/10)
 
*[[Christfried Böttrich]], Greifswald University, Germany (reg. 1/10/11)
 
*[[Daniel Boyarin]], University of California at Berkeley, USA (reg. 12/27/10)
 
*[[Silviu Bunta]], University of Dayton, USA (reg. 12/30/10)
 
*[[Calum M. Carmichael]], Cornell University, USA (reg. 1/4/11)
 
*[[James H. Charlesworth]], Princeton Theological Seminary, USA (reg. 12/9/10)
 
*[[Esther G. Chazon]], Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (reg. 1/5/11)
 
*[[Randall D. Chesnutt]], Pepperdine University, USA (reg. 1/11/11)
 
*[[John J. Collins]], Yale University, USA (reg. 1/9/11)
 
*[[Adela Yarbro Collins]], Yale University, USA (reg. 1/9/11)
 
*[[Marianne Dacy]], University of Sydney, Australia (reg. 12/19/10)
 
*[[James R. Davila]], St. Andrews University, Scotland (reg. 1/9/11)
 
*[[Kindalee Pfremmer De Long]], Pepperdine University, USA (reg. 3/16/11)
 
*[[Marcello Del Verme]], University 'Federico II' of Naples, Italy (reg. 12/29/10)
 
*[[Devorah Dimant]], University of Haifa, Israel (reg. 1/12/11)
 
*[[Lorenzo DiTommaso]], Concordia University Montreal, Canada (reg. 1/5/11)
 
*[[Lutz Doering]], Durham University, England (reg. 1/11/11)
 
*[[Henryk Drawnel]], John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (reg. 12/26/10)
 
*[[J. Harold Ellens]], University of Michigan, USA (reg. 1/15/11)
 
*[[Daniel K. Falk]], University of Oregon, USA (reg. 1/12/11)
 
*[[Frances Flannery]], James Madison University, USA (reg. 1/3/11)
 
*[[Steven D. Fraade]], Yale University, USA (reg. 12/8/10)
 
*[[Sandra Gambetti]], College of Staten Island - CUNY, USA (reg. 1/13/11)
 
*[[Gabriella Gelardini]], University of Basel, Switzerland (reg. 1/15/11)
 
*[[Lester L. Grabbe]], University of Hull, England (reg. 1/11/11)
 
*[[Daniel Gurtner]], Bethel Seminary, USA (reg. 1/31/11)
 
*[[Joost Hagen]], University of Leipzig, Germany (reg. 1/10/11)
 
*[[Todd Hanneken]], St. Mary's University, USA (reg. 12/10/10)
 
*[[Matthias Henze]], Rice University, USA (reg. 12/14/10)
 
*[[Karina M. Hogan]], Fordham University, USA (reg. 12/29/10)
 
*[[David R. Jackson]], University of Sydney, Australia (reg. 1/7/11)
 
*[[Robert A. Kraft]], University of Pennsylvania, USA (reg. 1/15/11)
 
*[[Helge S. Kvanvig]], University of Oslo, Norway (reg. 1/14/11)
 
*[[John R. Levison]], Seattle Pacific University, USA (reg. 1/11/11)
 
*[[Liv Ingeborg Lied]], University of Oslo, Norway (reg. 12/22/10)
 
*[[William R.G. Loader]], Murdoch University, Australia (reg. 1/2/11)
 
*[[Basil Lourié]], St Petersburg, Russia (reg. 12/18/10)
 
*[[Jared W. Ludlow]], Brigham Young University, USA (reg. 1/7/11)
 
*[[Paul Mandel]], Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel (reg. 1/2/11)


*[[Eric F. Mason]], Judson University, USA (reg. 12/21/10)
Here are the names of international scholars who have attended three or more meetings of the Enoch Seminar. A detailed list of participants is offered in [[Enoch Seminar Participants]].


*[[Hindy Najman]], University of Toronto, Canada (reg. 12/30/10)
==== Veterans ====


*[[Carol A. Newsom]], Emory University, USA (reg. 12/26/10)
* [[Luca Arcari]] (Italy) -- [[Daniel Assefa]] (Ethiopia)


*[[George W.E. Nickelsburg]], emeritus, University of Iowa, USA (reg. 11/9/10)
* [[Florentina Badalanova Geller]] (Germany) -- [[Albert I. Baumgarten]] (Israel) -- [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]] (USA) -- [[Giovanni Bazzana]] (USA) -- [[Andreas Bedenbender]] (Germany) -- [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (USA) -- [[Daniel Boyarin]] (USA)


*[[Rivka Nir]], Open University of Israel, Israel (reg. 12/28/10)
* [[Calum M. Carmichael]] (USA) -- [[James H. Charlesworth]] (USA) -- [[Esther G. Chazon]] (Israel) -- [[Randall D. Chesnutt]] (USA) -- [[Sabino Chialà]] (Italy) -- [[John J. Collins]] (USA) -- [[Adela Yarbro Collins]] (USA)


*[[Bilhah Nitzan]], Tel-Aviv University, Israel (reg. 1/5/11)
* [[Michael Daise]] (USA) -- [[James R. Davila]] (Scotland) -- [[Devorah Dimant]] (Israel) -- [[Lorenzo DiTommaso]] (Canada) -- [[Lutz Doering]] (England) -- [[Henryk Drawnel]] (Poland)


*[[Juan Carlos Ossandón]], Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy (reg. 1/29/11)
* [[Kathy Ehrensperger]] (Wales) -- [[Torleif Elgvin]] (Norway) -- [[J. Harold Ellens]] (USA) -- [[Esther Eshel]] (Israel) -- [[Hanan Eshel]] (Israel)  


*[[Laura Carmen Paladino]], Italy (reg. 1/15/11)
* [[Crispin Fletcher-Louis]] (England) -- [[Steven D. Fraade]] (USA) -- [[Ida Fröhlich]] (Hungary)


*[[Eugen Pentiuc]], Holy Cross, USA (reg. 1/31/11)
* [[Gabriella Gelardini]] (Switzerland) -- [[Charles A. Gieschen]] (USA) -- [[Claudio Gianotto]] (Italy) -- [[Lester L. Grabbe]] (England)


*[[Mauro Perani]], University of Bologna, Italy (reg. 1/31/11)
* [[Matthias Henze]] (USA) -- [[Martha Himmelfarb]] (USA)


*[[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]], Aarhus University, Denmark (reg. 12/31/10)
* [[Giovanni Ibba]] (Italy)  


*[[Pierluigi Piovanelli]], University of Ottawa, Canada (reg. 1/6/11)
* [[David R. Jackson]] (Australia)


*[[Adele Reinhartz]], University of Ottawa, Canada (reg. 1/11/11)
* [[Michael A. Knibb]] (England) -- [[Klaus Koch]] (Germany) -- [[Robert A. Kraft]] (USA) -- [[Helge S. Kvanvig]] (Norway) -- [[Alexander Kulik]] (Israel)  


*[[Benjamin E. Reynolds]], Tyndale University College, Canada (reg. 1/10/11)
* [[William R.G. Loader]] (Australia) -- [[Jared W. Ludlow]] (USA)


*[[Martin Rösel]], University of Rostock, Germany (reg. 12/25/10)
* [[Paul Mandel]] (Israel) -- [[Eric F. Mason]] (USA) -- [[Luca Mazzinghi]] (Italy)


*[[Jacques van Ruiten]], University of Groningen, Netherlands (reg. 1/10/11)
* [[Hindy Najman]] (USA) -- [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] (USA) -- [[Rivka Nir]] (Israel) -- [[Eric Noffke]] (Italy)


*[[Michael Satlow]], Brown University, USA (reg. 1/13/11)
* [[Gerbern S. Oegema]] (Canada) -- [[Isaac W. Oliver]] (USA) -- [[Andrei A. Orlov]] (USA)


*[[Lawrence H. Schiffman]], New York University, USA (reg. 12/30/10)
* [[Laura C. Paladino]] (Italy) -- [[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]] (Denmark) -- [[Stephen Pfann]] (Israel) -- [[Pierluigi Piovanelli]] (Canada)


*[[Shayna Sheinfeld]], McGill University, Canada (reg. 1/12/11)
* [[Annette Yoshiko Reed]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin E. Reynolds]] (Canada) -- [[Jacques van Ruiten]] (Netherlands)


*[[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]], Princeton Theological Seminary, USA (reg. 1/13/11)
* [[Paolo Sacchi]] (Italy) -- [[Lawrence H. Schiffman]] (USA) -- [[Carlos A. Segovia]] (Spain) -- [[Shayna Sheinfeld]] (USA) -- [[Michael E. Stone]] (Israel) -- [[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]] (Germany) -- [[David W. Suter]] (USA)  


*[[Carla Sulzbach]], McGill University, Canada (reg. 1/11/11)
* [[Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar]] (Netherlands)


*[[David W. Suter]], St Martin’s University, USA (reg. 12/9/10)
* [[James C. VanderKam]] (USA) -- [[Pieter M. Venter]] (South Africa)


*[[Balázs Tamási]], National Szechenyi Library, Hungary (reg. 12/22/10)
* [[James Waddell]] (USA) -- [[Archie T. Wright]] (USA) -- [[Benjamin G. Wright]] (USA)


*[[Johannes Tromp]], Leiden University, Netherlands (reg. 1/4/11)
* [[Ziony Zevit]] (USA) -- [[Jason M. Zurawski]] (USA)


*[[Mark Whitters]], Eastern Michigan University, USA (reg. 1/10/11)
==Guidelines for Organizing an Enoch Seminar==


*[[Megan Williams]], San Francisco State University, USA (reg. 1/13/11)
The Enoch Seminar is meant to be a meeting of between 50-80 people (as compared to the Nangeroni Meetings which are designed to have 25-35 participants). It includes:


*[[Archie T. Wright]], Regent University, USA (reg. 12/29/10)
- 12 major paper authors
 
- 12 major paper respondents
*[[Benjamin G. Wright]], Lehigh University, USA (reg. 12/25/10)
- 24 short paper authors
 
- Up to 6 reading sessions chairs
*[[Azzan Yadin]], Rutgers University, USA (reg. 1/11/11)
 
*[[Ziony Zevit]], American Jewish University, USA (reg. 12/29/10)
 
===Arrival Times at Malpensa Airport===
 
*'''Friday, June 24'''
 
8:30am    [mailto:steven.fraade@yale.edu Steven Fraade] (Continental 44)
 
*'''Saturday, June 25'''
 
7:35am    [mailto:drjacks@optusnet.com.au David Jackson] (TG 940)
 
8:50am    [mailto:jasonzur@umich.edu Jason Zurawski] (Continental 44)
 
9:00am    [mailto:batamasi@yahoo.com Balázs Tamási]
 
9:15am    [mailto:breynolds@tyndale.ca Ben Reynolds] (Delta 74)
 
9:25am    [mailto:kahogan@fordham.edu Karina Hogan] (Delta 8127)
 
10:15am  [mailto:marianne.dacy@sydney.edu.au Marianne Dacy] (LH 1854)
 
10:35am  [mailto:Liv.I.Lied@mf.no Liv Lied]
 
10:45am  [mailto:W.Loader@murdoch.edu.au Bill Loader] (BA 572)
 
11:50am  [mailto:jharoldellens@juno.com J Harold Ellens] (KLM 1623)
 
1:50pm    [mailto:mhenze@rice.edu Matthias Henze & Karin Liebster] (Lufthansa 0252)
 
2:15pm    [mailto:piovanel@mail.uottawa.ca Pierluigi Piovanelli] (AF 1714)
 
3:30pm    [mailto:flannefl@jmu.edu Frances Flannery] (Swiss Air)
 
4:25pm    [mailto:bgw1@lehigh.edu Ben Wright] (Lufthansa 3693)
 
4:25pm    [mailto:joosthagen@hotmail.com Joost Hagen] (Lufthansa 1860)
 
5:35pm    [mailto:mhw@sfsu.edu Megan Williams] (Lufthansa 254)
 
5:35pm    [mailto:epentiuc@hchc.edu Eugen & Floarea Pentiuc] (Lufthansa 254)
 
5:50pm    [mailto:dsuter@stmartin.edu David Suter] (British Air)
 
7:40pm    [mailto:silviu.bunta@gmail.com Silviu Bunta] (Malev 416)
 
*'''Sunday, June 26'''
 
8:30am    [mailto:kraft@sas.upenn.edu Robert Kraft] (Lufthansa 5728)
 
8:50am    [mailto:dgurtner@yahoo.com Daniel Gurtner] (Continental 44)
 
9:15am    [mailto:jared_ludlow@byu.edu Jared Ludlow]
 
9:25am    [mailto:atwright58uk@yahoo.com Archie Wright] (Delta 8127)
 
9:25am    [mailto:rcaruthe@gmail.com Rodney Caruthers] (Delta 8127)
 
10:35am  [mailto:AKP@teo.au.dk Anders Klostergaard Petersen] (SK1685)
 
10:45am  [mailto:L.L.Grabbe@hull.ac.uk Lester Grabbe] (British Air 0572)
 
10:55am  [mailto:ioliver@umich.edu Isaac Oliver] (Easy Jet 2782)
 
10:55am  [mailto:bnitzan@post.tau.ac.il Bilhah Nitzan]
 
10:55am  [mailto:pmandel@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Paul Mandel] (El Al 0381)
 
10:55am  [mailto:chazon@mscc.huji.ac.il Esther Chazon] (El Al 0381)
 
10:55am  [mailto:danabeni1@bezeqint.net Rivka Nir] (El Al 0381)
 
11:50am  [mailto:emason@judsonu.edu Eric Mason] (KLM)
 
11:50am  [mailto:cjsulz@hotmail.com Carla Sulzbach] (KLM 1623)
 
12:00pm  [mailto:lutz.doering@durham.ac.uk Lutz Doering]
 
12:00pm  [mailto:hieromonk@gmail.com Basil Lourié]
 
1:40pm    [mailto:ossandon@pusc.it Juan Carlos Ossandón] (Easyjet 908)
 
1:50pm    [mailto:areinhartz@gmail.com Adele Reinhartz] (Lufthansa 252)
 
1:50pm    [mailto:ddim@research.haifa.ac.il Devorah Dimant] (Lufthansa)
 
4:20pm    [mailto:boyarin@gmail.com Daniel Boyarin] (Lufthansa 3673)
 
4:55pm    [mailto:jrd4@st-andrews.ac.uk James Davila] (KLM 1624)
 
8:50pm    [mailto:h.s.kvanvig@teologi.uio.no Helge Kvanvig]
 
*'''Monday, June 27'''
 
8:50am    [mailto:michael_satlow@brown.edu Michael Satlow]
 
*'''Arriving at Linate Airport'''
 
June 25, 2:10pm    [mailto:j.t.a.g.m.van.ruiten@rug.nl Jacques van Ruiten] (KLM)
 
June 26, 10:30am    [mailto:medhanealem@yahoo.com Daniel Assefa]
 
===Getting to the Seminar===
 
'''Villa Cagnola (main lodging and location of Seminar):'''
 
Istituto Superiore di Studi Religiosi “Villa Cagnola”
 
Via Cagnola, 17/19
 
21045 GAZZADA SCHIANNO (VA)
 
Tel. +39 0332 461304
 
fax +39 0332 870887
 
E-mail: reception@villacagnola.it
 
villacagnola@tin.it
 
[http://www.villacagnola.it www.villacagnola.it]
 
 
'''Hotel Capolago (secondary lodging):'''
 
Via per Bodio, 74
 
21100 Varese
 
Tel. +39 0332 831840
 
Fax +39 0332 287873
 
Email: info@hotelcapolago.it
 
[http://www.hotelcapolago.it/ www.hotelcapolago.it]
 
 
'''From Malpensa Airport'''
 
Taxi: ~25 minutes; ~60 Euros (see above for sharing a taxi)
 
Train: ~1.5 hours; ~6 Euros (See [http://www.trenitalia.com trenitalia.com], Departure = "Malpensa Aeroporto" Arrival = "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone")
 
*Take bus from Malpensa to "Busto Arsizio” and from there take a train “Suburbano” to the stop “Gazzada-Schianno.”
*The station in Gazzada is about 1km from the Villa ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone,+21045+Gazzada+Schianno+Varese,+Italy+(Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone)&daddr=Villa+Cagnola,+Via+Cagnola,+Gazzada+Schianno,+Italy&hl=en&geocode=FchnugId4ZKGAClzpb7YYIeGRzG0ASvH8Eqpkw%3BFbKHugIdnJuGACHkw9hKM4JCJg&mra=atm&sll=45.770696,8.819425&sspn=0.006279,0.016512&ie=UTF8&dirflg=w&z=16 see map]) and about 4km from Hotel Capolago.  The Hotel Capolago has a shuttle which can pick you up, for a fee, from the train station in Gazzada.  You would need to contact them ahead of time (see contact info above) to let them know the day and time when you will need to be picked up.
 
 
'''From Milan'''
 
Train: ~1.5 hours; ~6 Euros (See [http://www.trenitalia.com trenitalia.com], Departure - "Milano Centrale" Arrival = "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone")
*Depart from the "Milano Centrale" station and connect to another train to get to Gazzada (connection will depend on time of day.  check the schedule).
*The station in Gazzada is about 1km from the Villa ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone,+21045+Gazzada+Schianno+Varese,+Italy+(Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone)&daddr=Villa+Cagnola,+Via+Cagnola,+Gazzada+Schianno,+Italy&hl=en&geocode=FchnugId4ZKGAClzpb7YYIeGRzG0ASvH8Eqpkw%3BFbKHugIdnJuGACHkw9hKM4JCJg&mra=atm&sll=45.770696,8.819425&sspn=0.006279,0.016512&ie=UTF8&dirflg=w&z=16 see map]) and about 4km from Hotel Capolago.
 
'''From Linate'''
 
Taxi: Cost - ?? (probably extremely high); There is a shuttle which runs from Linate to Malpensa where you could share a taxi with those arriving at Malpensa.
 
Train:  Take shuttle or bus to Milano Centrale station (see above).
 
==History==
 
Founded in 2001, the Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile to the Bar-Kochba revolt—the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism have their roots. The goal is to tear down the misleading walls of separation that still divide this field of research, recovering the unity and integrity of the period. Enoch is the symbol of this inter-canonical and inter-disciplinary effort, as he is present of each and all the canons that anachronistically divide sources from the period: Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, etc.
 
Participation at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who have completed their PhD. To graduate students and PhD candidates, the Enoch Seminar offers a biennial meeting (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).
 
The Enoch Seminar is chaired by [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan) and is made possible by fundings from the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan and from the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies.
 
==Meetings and Proceedings==
 
*2001 (Florence, Italy) - First Enoch Seminar: ''The Origins of Enochic Judaism''
**[[The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), edited volume]]
 
*2003 (Venice, Italy) - Second Enoch Seminar: ''Enoch and Qumran Origins''
**[[Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume]]
 
*2005 (Camaldoli, Italy) - Third Enoch Seminar: ''Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man''
**[[Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume]]
 
*2007 (Camaldoli, Italy) - Fourth Enoch Seminar: ''Qumran and the Mosaic Torah''
**[[Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume]]
**[[Enoch and Jubilees (2009 Bertalotto/Hanneken), edited volume]]
 
*2009 (Naples, Italy) - Fifth Enoch Seminar: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
 
*2011 (Milan, Italy) - Sixth Enoch Seminar: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''
 
==Meetings of the [[Enoch Graduate Seminar]]==
*2006 (Ann Arbor, MI) - First Enoch Graduate Seminar 
*2008 (Princeton, NJ) - Second Enoch Graduate Seminar
*2010 (July 19-23; Budapest, Hungary) - Third Enoch Graduate Seminar
 
==More publications from the Enoch Seminar==
*[[Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume]]
 
*[[The Early Enoch Literature (2007 Boccaccini/Collins), edited volume]]
 
== Participants ==


(6x) - [[Andreas Bedenbender]] -- [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] -- [[James H. Charlesworth]] -- [[J. Harold Ellens]] -- [[Pierluigi Piovanelli]] -- [[David W. Suter]]
Organizing an Enoch Seminar is a 4-step process


(5x) - [[Claudio Gianotto]] -- [[Matthias Henze]] -- [[Lester L. Grabbe]] - [[Helge S. Kvanvig]] -- [[George W.E. Nickelsburg]] -- [[Benjamin G. Wright]] // [[Esther Eshel]] - {[[Hanan Eshel]]}
*First Step:  An Enoch Seminar Member(s) proposes a topic, which then must be approved by the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors.
**Timeframe:  2 years prior to date of proposed Enoch Seminar


(4x) - [[Daniel Assefa]] -- [[Kelley Coblentz Bautch]] -- [[Daniel Boyarin]] -- [[John J. Collins]] -- [[Lawrence H. Schiffman]] -- [[Loren T. Stuckenbruck]] // [[Ida Fröhlich]] - [[Paolo Sacchi]]
*Second Step:  The appointed chair(s) of the Enoch Seminar should gather a group of at least 5-10 colleagues, who are committed to participate in the Meeting and collaborate on its organization. At this point, an email will be sent to the Enoch Seminar members, announcing the proposal and asking those who are particularly interested in the topic to join the organization of the Meeting.
**Timeframe:  1.5 years prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar


(3x) - [[Darrell L. Bock]] -- [[Calum M. Carmichael]] -- [[Adela Yarbro Collins]] -- [[James R. Davila]] -- [[Devorah Dimant]] -- [[Lutz Doering]] -- [[Henryk Drawnel]] -- [[Robert A. Kraft]] -- [[Hindy Najman]] -- [[Stephen Pfann]] -- [[Jacques van Ruiten]] // [[Luca Arcari]] - [[Albert I. Baumgarten]] - [[Michael Daise]] - [[Charles A. Gieschen]] - [[Martha Himmelfarb]] - [[Michael A. Knibb]] - [[Klaus Koch]] - [[Andrei A. Orlov]] - [[Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar]] - [[James C. VanderKam]] - [[Pieter Venter]]
*Third Step:  The appointed chair(s) must present the final schedule, including the major authors and paper topics to the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors for final approval.
**Timeframe:  1 year prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar


(2x) - [[Jeff S. Anderson]] -- [[Christfried Böttrich]] -- [[Silviu Bunta]] -- [[Esther G. Chazon]] -- [[Daniel K. Falk]] -- [[Steven D. Fraade]] -- [[David R. Jackson]] -- [[John R. Levison]] -- [[William R.G. Loader]] -- [[Basil Lourié]] -- [[Jared W. Ludlow]] -- [[Eric F. Mason]] -- [[Rivka Nir]] -- [[Bilhah Nitzan]] -- [[Anders Klostergaard Petersen]] -- [[Carlos A. Segovia]] -- [[Alexander Toepel]] -- [[Johannes Tromp]] -- [[Megan Williams]] -- [[Azzan Yadin]]
*Fourth Step:  The Enoch Seminar Board of Directors will announce and advertise the program and registration for the Enoch Seminar until the maximum number of participants (50-80) is reached.
**Timeframe:  8-6 months prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar


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First Enoch Seminar, at Palazzo Corsi Salviati, Florence, Italy (2001)
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, Founder of the Enoch Seminar
Second Enoch Seminar, at Palazzo Sullam, Venice, Italy (2003)
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward's University, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar
Third, Fourth, and Seventh Enoch Seminar, at the Monastery of Camaldoli, Italy (2005, 2007, 2013)
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Vice-Director of the Enoch Seminar
Fifth Enoch Seminar, at Cappella Cangiati, Naples, Italy (2009)
2016
Sixth and Eighth Enoch Seminar, at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy (2011, 2015)
2014
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2013
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2012
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2009
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2007
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2007
2005
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The Enoch Seminar is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, who share the results of their research in the field and meet to discuss topics of common interest. In addition to the biennial Enoch Seminars, the group has launched three other series of international meetings: the biennial Enoch Graduate Seminar (since 2006), the yearly Nangeroni Meetings (since 2012), and the occasional Enoch Colloquia (since 2017). The group also runs an online journal (Enoch Seminar Online), 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (since 2009), and the yearly Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL (since 2012).

History

Founded in 2001 by Gabriele Boccaccini, the Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile to the Bar-Kochba revolt—the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism have their roots. The goal is to tear down the misleading walls of separation that still divide this field of research, recovering the unity and integrity of the period. Enoch is the symbol of this inter-canonical and inter-disciplinary effort, as he is present of each and all the canons that anachronistically divide sources from the period: Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, etc.

Participation at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who have completed their PhD. To graduate students and PhD candidates, the Enoch Seminar offers a biennial meeting (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).

The Enoch Seminar is chaired by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan) and is made possible by fundings from the University of Michigan and from the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment.

Enoch Seminar Board of Directors:

Meetings (chronology)

2001

2003

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

  • 2009 (Naples, Italy) - Fifth Enoch Seminar: Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

  • 2019 (June 9-14; Florence, Italy) - Tenth Enoch Seminar: Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century
  • 2019 (June 16-20; Gazzada, Italy) - Eleventh Nangeroni Meeting: 3rd Early Islamic Studies Seminar, New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II
  • 2019 (Nov 23-26; San Diego, CA) - 8th Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL

2020

  • 2020 (June 29 - July 2; online) - 2020 Enoch Seminar Online: Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

2021

  • 2021 (Jan 11-14; online) - Nangeroni meeting (online) on John the Baptist, in collaborazione with the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
  • 2021 - (Apr 29-30; online) - Eighth Enoch Graduate Seminar
  • 2021 (May 23-27; online) - Eleventh Enoch Seminar: Ancient Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception, in collaboration with the University of Munich, Germany
  • 2021 (Oct 25-27; online) -- Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew?
  • 2021 (Nov 19; San Antonio) -- Luke and Acts With(in) Second Temple Judaism

2022

  • 2022 (Jan 10-13; online) -- Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise (Jan 10-13, 2022)
  • Jan 31-Feb 3: Present and Future Perspectives on the Study of Second Temple Judaism in Ibero-America
  • March 3: RES Virtual Review - Intro to Apocalypticism (Oegema)
  • April 11-13: Fellows closing with John Collins/AJ Levine
  • April 28: Pharisee in J&C dialogue/ RES Virtual Review - Review of Pharisees (Sievers & Levine)
  • 2022 (May 29 - Jun 3; Norway) -- "Virtus et Humanitas: Virtues and Values in Greco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Paideia at the Turn of the Common Area"
  • 2022 (June 26-30; Rome, Italy) -- Luke and Acts Wit(in) Second Temple Judaism
  • July 14: RES Virtual Review
  • October 6: RES Virtual Review
  • October 17-18: MCECS Music & Christianity
  • November 18: ES Colloquium at SBL

... ...

2023

2024

2025

2026

  • 2021 (June 20; online) -- Happy Birthday, Enoch Seminar! (25th anniversary)

2031

  • 2021 (June 20; online) -- Happy Birthday, Enoch Seminar! (30th anniversary)

Meetings of the Enoch Seminar (2001-)

  • 2017 (Camaldoli, Italy) - Ninth Enoch Seminar - From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity
  • 2019 (Florence, Italy) - Tenth Enoch Seminar - Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century

Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meetings (2012-)

Meetings of the Enoch Colloquia (2017-)

  • 2017 (Cambridge, MA, USA; November)
  • 2018 (Denver, CO;November)

<in preparation>

  • 2020 (Boston, MA, USA; November)

Meetings of the Enoch Graduate Seminar (2006-)

<In preparation:>

  • 2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • 2020 (Boston, MA)

Enoch Seminar Receptions at the SBL (2012-)

  • 2012 (Chicago, IL) - 1st SBL Annual Meeting
  • 2013 (Baltimore, MD) - 2nd SBL Annual Meeting
  • 2014 (San Diego, CA) - 3rd SBL Annual Meeting
  • 2015 (Atlanta, GA) - 4th SBL Annual Meeting
  • 2016 (San Antonio, TX) - 5th SBL Annual Meeting
  • 2017 (Boston, MA) - 6th SBL Annual Meeting

<In preparation:>

  • 2018 (Denver, CO) - 7th SBL Annual Meeting
  • 2019 (San Diego, CA) - 8th SBL Annual Meeting

Publications from the Enoch Seminar

  1. Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Turin: Zamorani, 2005) [=Henoch
  2. Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
  3. Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005)
  4. The First Enoch Graduate Seminar at the University of Michigan: 1. Angels and Demons (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2006) [=Henoch 28.2 (2006)]
  5. Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
  6. Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins (eds.), The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
  7. Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba (eds.), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
  8. Gabriele Boccaccini, Pierpaolo Bertalotto and Todd Hanneken (eds.), Enoch and Jubilees (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009) [=Henoch 31.1 (2009)]
  9. Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.1 (2011)]
  10. Across the Jewish-Christian Divide: Perspectives from the Enoch Graduate Seminar of Budapest (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011) [=Henoch 33.2 (2011)]
  11. Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
  12. Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.), 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
  13. Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski (eds.), Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
  14. The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume
  15. Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume

"The Enoch Seminar", an article by Philip Jenkins (30 May 2016)

One of the most exciting areas today in Biblical scholarship (broadly defined) is the Enoch Seminar. Founded in 2001, it originally focused on the literature associated with the patriarch Enoch, but has since branched out massively, almost to become a field in its own right. The changing limits of that field are fascinating, both for their present state and their emerging dimensions.

The main Seminar meetings occur regularly in a variety of international settings, and are strictly intended for credentialed scholars, by invitation only. The actual roster of experts varies widely on each occasion, but with some continuity. Since 2006, there is also a graduate seminar that meets every two years, most recently last week in Austin TX, where I had the privilege of serving as a faculty mentor. So what does the Enoch Seminar do? It describes its topic areas as “Second Temple Judaism, Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins,” and that staggeringly broad reach is deliberate. The basic theme is that the Jewish world between, say, 300 BC and 200 AD, included a great many ideas and themes, some of which fit well into standard and orthodox views of Jewish history, but others would be viewed as Christian, Jewish-Christian, Gnostic or Jewish-sectarian.

At the time, though, those various ingredients all belonged in one common cauldron of ideas, without hard boundaries separating them. Nor was it obvious which elements were going to become components of world religions, and which would be consigned to obscure heresies. The more you investigate this period, moreover, the more absurd become the traditional divisions that scholars once drew about which texts were “more Jewish,” and which Gentile or Hellenistic. (See for instance 150 years of debate on the Gospel of John). One theme that emerges repeatedly: just because an idea or theme does not fit within the mold of later Rabbinic Judaism does not mean that its origins were not thoroughly Jewish.

This is, in fact, one of the most critical eras in the history of religion. It also left a vast range of writings, including standard Jewish and Christian texts, but also a range of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. You get a sense of the scope we are dealing with here from the various edited volumes that have emerged from the Seminar. In 2009, for instance, the main Seminar met in Italy, and its discussions appeared under the title New Perspectives on 2 Enoch, edited by Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini. In 2012, again, the Seminar pursued the theme The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, and that is now the title of the just published collection, edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski. For anyone working in the areas of early Jewish history and Christian origins, these collections are just indispensable.

To see what younger scholars are up to now, you can check out the titles of the recent Austin papers here. I stress, just the titles, not the full-length papers. All are very much works in progress, and the authors don’t want to give public access to works that are still in the course of development. Nor, understandably, do they want other people purloining their ideas before they can be properly published. But the list of topics is very wide, and deeply impressive, as was the dazzling diversity of themes. And so was the level of execution and presentation. If this is the next scholarly generation, this is wonderful news.

I had my own particular favorites from the papers presented, but won’t embarrass the ones I select or ignore! One question that does occur. Just glance at the range of eras, themes and societies covered in this conference. How on earth would we find a single overarching description for all these, if we did not use the convenience term “Enochic”?

If you trace the Enoch field through the past sixteen years, it is intriguing to see the directions in which research has been leading, logically and almost inevitably. Today, the main area of focus is shifting to Islamic origins, and the roots of Islam in Jewish and Christian soil. If recent seminars are anything to go by, watch for major insights and unsuspected connections in that area. And where next, we ask?

If you want to see the cutting edge actually cutting, this is where it is happening.

Participants

Here are the names of international scholars who have attended three or more meetings of the Enoch Seminar. A detailed list of participants is offered in Enoch Seminar Participants.

Veterans

Guidelines for Organizing an Enoch Seminar

The Enoch Seminar is meant to be a meeting of between 50-80 people (as compared to the Nangeroni Meetings which are designed to have 25-35 participants). It includes:

- 12 major paper authors - 12 major paper respondents - 24 short paper authors - Up to 6 reading sessions chairs

Organizing an Enoch Seminar is a 4-step process

  • First Step: An Enoch Seminar Member(s) proposes a topic, which then must be approved by the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors.
    • Timeframe: 2 years prior to date of proposed Enoch Seminar
  • Second Step: The appointed chair(s) of the Enoch Seminar should gather a group of at least 5-10 colleagues, who are committed to participate in the Meeting and collaborate on its organization. At this point, an email will be sent to the Enoch Seminar members, announcing the proposal and asking those who are particularly interested in the topic to join the organization of the Meeting.
    • Timeframe: 1.5 years prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar
  • Third Step: The appointed chair(s) must present the final schedule, including the major authors and paper topics to the Enoch Seminar Board of Directors for final approval.
    • Timeframe: 1 year prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar
  • Fourth Step: The Enoch Seminar Board of Directors will announce and advertise the program and registration for the Enoch Seminar until the maximum number of participants (50-80) is reached.
    • Timeframe: 8-6 months prior to the date of the Enoch Seminar

External links

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