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Title: The Origin of Evil in Second Temple Judaism

Tentative Date : June 29 - July 1-2 (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)

Daily schedule (Eastern American Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Topics (to be decided): Suggested questions for each of the main sessions:

Monday, June 29, 2020: Opening Session

2pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks

2:30pm-4pm -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?
- Gabriele Boccaccini

Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Three sessions

10am-11:30am -- 2. Did the concept of metaphysical evil in the Second Temple period emerge as a unique event in response to a specific set of circumstances? Or was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

12:00pm-1:30pm -- 3. Was the emergence of metaphysical evil a case of "plight to solution," and if so, was the basic plight soteriological? What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

2:30pm-4pm -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 -- Three sessions

10am-11:30am -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?
- Lorenzo DiTommaso ...

12:00pm-1:30pm -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

2:30pm-4pm -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

Thursday, July 2, 2020 -- Three sessions & Conclusion

10am-11:30am -- 8. Does Paul stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or does it (or Paul) represent a new direction?
- Gabriele Boccaccini ...

12:00pm-1:30pm -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

2:30pm-4pm -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the gnostic (Valentinian or Sethian) or Mandean literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?
- James McGraw ...

Final comments

Participants

Gabriele Boccaccini
Lorenzo DiTommaso
Loren Stuckenbruck
Archie Wright
Eric Noffke
Paul Mandel
Alexander Kulik
Gerbern Oegema
Adele Reinhartz
James McGrath
Giovanni Bazzana
Jason Zurawski
Isaac Oliver
Deborah Forger
Jason von Ehrenkrook
Joshua Scott
Rodney Caruthers

Invited participants

Chris Keith
Dylan Burns: gnosticism
Angela Kim Harkins: DSS
Karen King: gnosticism
Liv Lied:
Anathea Portier-Young: evil as a response to situation (no. 2)
Jason Silverman: Zoroastrianism in ancient world
Emma Wasserman: Paul
Rebecca Wollenberg: Judaism Late antiquity
Ben Wright: non-apocalyptic texts and evil
Mirjam Brand
John Collins
Adela Collins
Amy-Jill Levine
Paula Fredriksen
Daniel Boyarin
Matthias Henze
Benjamin Wright
Kelley Bautch
Annette Reed
Andrei Orlov
Michael Stone

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-Title: "The Origin of Evil in Second Temple Judaism"
+Title: '''The Origin of Evil in Second Temple Judaism'''
-Tentative Date : June 29 - July 1-2  (Momday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)
+Tentative Date : June 29 - July 1-2  (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)
 Daily schedule (Eastern American Time): 10am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm
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 Topics (to be decided): Suggested questions for each of the main sessions:
-Monday, June 29, 2020: Opening  2pm
+====Monday, June 29, 2020: Opening Session====
 * 2pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks
 * 2:30pm-4pm -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?
+** Gabriele Boccaccini
+====Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Three sessions====
-Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Three sessions
 * 10am-11:30am -- 2. Did the concept of metaphysical evil in the Second Temple period emerge as a unique event in response to a specific set of circumstances? Or was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?
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 *2:30pm-4pm -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?
-Wednesday
+====Wednesday, July 1, 2020 -- Three sessions====
 *10am-11:30am -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?
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 *2:30pm-4pm -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?
-Thursday, July 2, 2020
+====Thursday, July 2, 2020 -- Three sessions & Conclusion====
 *10am-11:30am -- 8. Does Paul stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or does it (or Paul) represent a new direction?