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*2009 (Naples, Italy) - Fifth Enoch Seminar: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
*2009 (Naples, Italy) - Fifth Enoch Seminar: ''Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch''
**[[No Longer Slavonic Only: New Perspectives on 2 Enoch (2012 Boccaccini/Orlov), 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]]


*2011 (Milan, Italy) - Sixth Enoch Seminar: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''
*2011 (Milan, Italy) - Sixth Enoch Seminar: ''2 Baruch, 4 Ezra: Late First Century Apocalypticism''

Revision as of 08:56, 14 November 2011

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.

Sixth Meeting in Milan (in memory of Hanan Eshel)

Second Baruch and Fourth Ezra: Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel

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).

Date: June 26-30, 2011

Place: Villa Cagnola at Gazzada, near Milan, Italy http://www.villacagnola.it/

[Closest international airport Malpensa-Milano]

Lodging (including meals)

Contribution (4 nights lodging, including meals) To be paid in Milan at the Conference.

  • 000 -- Authors of major papers
  • 150 euros -- Respondents (major papers), emeriti
  • 200 euros -- Authors of short papers, readers
  • 250 euros -- Attendees, spouses, etc. (children [age 6-17]: 100 euros; under 5 years old: free)

Registration

Registration for the Sixth Enoch Seminar is officially closed.

Registration fees (Enoch Seminar Membership) 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, Jason Zurawski.

Schedule

SATURDAY JUNE 25, 2011

Arrivals at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (optional)

Lunch (euro 20, optional)

Buffet Dinner (6 to 7pm, optional, euro 10)

SUNDAY JUNE 26, 2011

Morning: Arrivals at Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (The members of the Seminar are welcome to arrive on the previous day, if they wish)

1:15pm - Lunch (for all participants)

  • Plenary session

3:30pm-4:45pm – Opening of the Conference

Welcome by Gabriele Boccaccini and Mons. Luigi Misto’

In memory of Hanan Eshel (Gabriele Boccaccini)

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

Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)

  • Session #1: “Pre–70 Jewish Literature and 2B/4E”

Group A: Devorah Dimant, "Qumran and Its Sequel: Jewish Apocalypses Composed in Hebrew"

Respondents: Martin Rösel and Daniel K. Falk

Group B: Gabriele Boccaccini, "Who’s Afraid of Enochic Judaism? A Reading of 4 Ezra in Light of 1 Enoch and Paul"

Respondents: Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Carol A. Newsom

5:15pm-6:35pm - Plenary session Presentation and discussion of two papers: 10min presentation by Devorah Dimant + 30min Q&A – 10min presentation by Gabriele Boccaccini + 30min Q&A

6:45pm–8pm – Group discussion 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

MONDAY JUNE 27, 2011

8am Breakfast

  • Session #2: “2B/4E and Apocalyptic/1 Enoch”

Group A: John J. Collins, "Enoch and Ezra"

Respondents: Eric F. Mason and Pierluigi Piovanelli

Group B: Hindy Najman, "Con-figuring 4Ezra"

Respondents: James R. Davila and Benjamin G. Wright

8:30am-9:50am - Plenary session Presentation and discussion of two papers: 10min presentation by John Collins + 30min Q&A – 10min presentation by Hindy Najman + 30min Q&A

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


Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)


  • First 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 7:28-34 (“My Son the Messiah”)

Reader #1: Gabriele Boccaccini / Reader #2: Johannes Tromp

(b) Text: 4 Ezra 13:25-45 (The Man from the Sea)

Reader #1: David W. Suter / Reader #2: Silviu Bunta

(c) Text: 2 Baruch 29:1-30:5 (“The Messiah Will Begin to be Revealed”)

Reader #1: Matthias Henze / Reader #2: Azzan Yadin

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

Reader #1: Martin Rösel / Reader #2: Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar


1:15pm Lunch


  • Short papers

3:30pm-4:45pm – Parallel groups with three papers each – 10m presentations by each author +15m Q&A


Group 1: Chair: Benjamin Wright

Carla Sulzbach, "The Fate of Jerusalem in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: From Earth to Heaven and Back?"

Benjamin Reynolds, "The Otherworldly Mediators in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch"

Veronika Bachmann, "Good Times, Bad Times and Their Imperatives – A Comparison Between 4 Ezra and the Book of the Watchers"

J. Harold Ellens, "4 Ezra and Apocalyptic as Delusion"

Jason Zurawski, "The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14"


Group 2: Chair: Pierluigi Piovanelli

Eric F. Mason, "2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and the Epistle to the Hebrews: Three Approaches to Interpretation of Ps 104:4"

Jared Ludlow, "Death and the Afterlife in 2 Baruch"

Eugen Pentiuc, "The Nature of the Resurrected Bodies in 2 Baruch and New Testament"

Andreas Bedenbender, "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?"

Calum Carmichael, "Days of Creation in 2 Esdras 6:38-59 and John 1:1-5:1-47"

Megan Williams, "Parcere subiectis: Rome's Universal Empire and Jewish Apocalyptic Theodicy in Romans, Revelation, and 4 Ezra”


Group 3: Chair: Ziony Zevit

Mark Whitters, “Ezra, According to Second Baruch”

Paul Mandel, "Apocalypse and Scribe: Enoch, Baruch and Ezra and the Second-Temple ‘scribal’ tradition"

Daniel K. Falk, "Penitence and Supplication in 4 Ezra"

Balázs Tamási, "Baruch as Prophet in 2 Baruch"

Laura Bizzarro, "The 'Meaning of History' in the 5th vision of the Book of 4Ezra"

Basil Lourié, "The Calendar Implied in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: Two Modifications of the One Scheme"


Group 4: Chair: Kelley Coblentz Bautch

Frances Flannery, “Birthing Cities and Birthing Bodies”

Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, "'Ask a Woman': The Literary Motif of Childbearing in 4 Ezra"

Stephen Pfann, "The Use of Cryptographic and Esoteric Scripts In Second Temple Judaism and the Surrounding Cultures"


Group 5: Chair: Jack Levison

Rivka Nir, "What Did the Christians Find in the Letter of Baruch that Attracted Them?”

Daniel Gurtner, "Eschatological Rewards for the Righteous in Second Baruch"

Bilhah Nitzan, "Apocalyptic Ideas in Fourth Ezra in Comparison with the Dead Sea Scrolls"

Bill Loader, "Sexual Issues in 2 Baruch"

Lorenzo DiTommaso, "Who Is The 'I' of 4 Ezra?"

James Hamilton Charlesworth, “4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Archaeology and Elusive Answers to Our Perennial Questions”


Coffee Break and Refreshments (30min)


  • Session #3: “A close reading of 2B/4E”

Group A: Lutz Doering, "The Letter of Baruch and its Role in 2Baruch"

Respondents: Christfried Böttrich and Archie Wright

Group B: Loren T. Stuckenbruck, "Ezra's Vision of the Lady: Form and Function of a Turning Point"

Respondents: Lester L. Grabbe and Anders Klostergaard Petersen

5:15pm-6:35pm - Plenary session Presentation and discussion of two papers: 10min presentation by Lutz Doering + 30min Q&A – 10min presentation by Loren Stuckenbruck + 30min Q&A

6:45pm–8pm – Group Discussion Two parallel groups (focusing of Doering and Stuckenbruck, respectively), introduced by two respondents for each paper – 10min presentation by each respondent + 55min discussion


8:15pm Dinner

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, "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, "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)

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, "The Uses of Apocalyptic Eschatology"

Respondents: Adele Reinhartz and Jacques van Ruiten

Group B: George W.E. Nickelsburg, "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, "Judaism, the Director‘s Cut: Enoch, Ezra, and the Jewishness of 'High Christology'"

Respondents: Azzan Yadin and Paul Mandel

Group B: Steven D. Fraade, "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, "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, "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)

  • Daniel Assefa, Capuchin Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Ethiopia (reg. 12/30/10)
  • Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley, USA (reg. 12/27/10)
  • Henryk Drawnel, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (reg. 12/26/10)
  • Joost Hagen, University of Leipzig, Germany (reg. 1/10/11)
  • Paul Mandel, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel (reg. 1/2/11)
  • Rivka Nir, Open University of Israel, Israel (reg. 12/28/10)
  • Ziony Zevit, American Jewish University, USA (reg. 12/29/10)

Arrival Times at Malpensa Airport

  • Friday, June 24

8:30am Steven Fraade (Continental 44)

  • Saturday, June 25

7:35am David Jackson (TG 940)

8:50am Jason Zurawski (Continental 44)

9:00am Balázs Tamási

9:15am Ben Reynolds (Delta 74)

9:25am Karina Hogan (Delta 8127)

10:15am Marianne Dacy (LH 1854)

10:35am Liv Lied

10:45am Bill Loader (BA 572)

11:50am J Harold Ellens (KLM 1623)

1:50pm Matthias Henze & Karin Liebster (Lufthansa 0252)

2:15pm Pierluigi Piovanelli (AF 1714)

3:30pm Frances Flannery (Swiss Air)

4:25pm Ben Wright (Lufthansa 3693)

4:25pm Joost Hagen (Lufthansa 1860)

5:35pm Megan Williams (Lufthansa 254)

5:35pm Eugen & Floarea Pentiuc (Lufthansa 254)

5:50pm David Suter (British Air)

7:40pm Silviu Bunta (Malev 416)

  • Sunday, June 26

8:30am Robert Kraft (Lufthansa 5728)

8:50am Daniel Gurtner (Continental 44)

9:15am Jared Ludlow

9:25am Archie Wright (Delta 8127)

9:25am Rodney Caruthers (Delta 8127)

10:35am Anders Klostergaard Petersen (SK1685)

10:45am Lester Grabbe (British Air 0572)

10:55am Isaac Oliver (Easy Jet 2782)

10:55am Bilhah Nitzan

10:55am Paul Mandel (El Al 0381)

10:55am Esther Chazon (El Al 0381)

10:55am Rivka Nir (El Al 0381)

11:50am Eric Mason (KLM)

11:50am Carla Sulzbach (KLM 1623)

12:00pm Lutz Doering

12:00pm Basil Lourié

1:40pm Juan Carlos Ossandón (Easyjet 908)

1:50pm Adele Reinhartz (Lufthansa 252)

1:50pm Devorah Dimant (Lufthansa)

4:20pm Daniel Boyarin (Lufthansa 3673)

4:55pm James Davila (KLM 1624)

8:50pm Helge Kvanvig

  • Monday, June 27

8:50am Michael Satlow

  • Arriving at Linate Airport

June 25, 2:10pm Jacques van Ruiten (KLM)

June 26, 10:30am 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

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

www.hotelcapolago.it


From Malpensa Airport

Taxi: ~25 minutes; ~60 Euros (see above for sharing a taxi)

Train: ~1.5 hours; ~6 Euros (See 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 (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 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 (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

  • 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

Participants

(6x) - Andreas Bedenbender -- Gabriele Boccaccini -- James H. Charlesworth -- J. Harold Ellens -- Pierluigi Piovanelli -- David W. Suter

(5x) - Claudio Gianotto -- Matthias Henze -- Lester L. Grabbe - Helge S. Kvanvig -- George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Benjamin G. Wright // Esther Eshel - {Hanan Eshel}

(4x) - Daniel Assefa -- Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- Daniel Boyarin -- John J. Collins -- Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Loren T. Stuckenbruck // Ida Fröhlich - Paolo Sacchi

(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

(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

External links

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