Carlos A. Segovia (1970-), scholar

Carlos A. Segovia (b.1970) is a British-born Spanish scholar. He is currently lecturer in Islamic studies at Saint Louis University in Madrid (Spain), associate professor in religious studies at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid, and lecturer in moral philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

E-mail address: segoviamail@gmail.com; segoviaca@slu.edu; casegovia@ucjc.edu;

Biography

Carlos A. Segovia was born in London, England, on May 22, 1970. In 2004 he earned his PhD in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). From 2007 to 2011 he was Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies at the National University of Distant Education and the Camilo José Cela University, and Research Associate in Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Seville from 2008 to 2011. He is now Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the Camilo José Cela University and lecturer in Islamic Studies at Saint Louis University in Madrid, and teaches Moral Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). In 2009 he was appointed Associate Editor in charge for Spanish scholarship of 4 Enoch. From 2009 to 2012 he joined Book Reviews Commission of the journal Henoch, and in 2011 the Board of Directors of the Enoch Seminar. In 2012 he launched the Camilo José Cela University International Research Seminar Rethinking the Making of a Difference: Jewish-Christian Boundary Drawing in Late Antiquity with Pamela Michelle Eisenbaum (2013), Daniel Boyarin (2014), and Gabriele Boccaccini (2015); the seminar is co-sponsored by, and hosted at, the Xavier Zubiri Foundation in Madrid. He is also Associate Editor in charge for Early Islamic Studies of 4 Enoch. He chiefly works on early Islam in its Jewish-Christian setting and has recently launched with Guillaume Dye (Free University of Brussels [ULB]), Emilio González Ferrín (University of Seville), Manfred Kropp (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), and Tommaso Tesei (University of Notre Dame) the Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Qur'an and Islamic Origins, an academic group of international specialists associated to the Enoch Seminar who aim at exploring afresh different issues on the early history of Islam with the tools of Biblical criticism and the new methods put forth in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian and Rabbinic origins, and thereby contribute to the renewed study of formative Islam as part and parcel in the complex process of religious identity formation in late antiquity in close dialogue with scholars working in this latter field of research.

Works on Second Temple Judaism, Christian, and Islamic Origins

Monographs

• Liminalia: Studies on Early Islamic Texts and Ideas and Their Jewish and Christian Subtexts and Sources. [In progress.]
• From the Quranic Noah to the Muhammadan Evangelium: A Contribution to the Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity. [In progress.]
• Pablo de Tarso, ¿judío o cristiano? (Paul of Tarsus: Jew or Christian? / 2013 Segovia), book.
• Por una interpretación no cristiana de Pablo de Tarso: El redescubrimiento contemporáneo de un judío mesiánico (Rereading Paul as a Messianic Jew / 2013 Segovia), book.
• El Corán: Religión, hombre y sociedad. Antología temática (The Qur'ān: A Thematic Antology / 2007 Segovia), book.

Edited Volumes

• The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? (2012 Segovia, Lourié), edited volume

Translations

• Espacios fronterizos: Judaísmo y cristianismo en la Antigüedad tardía = Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (2013 Boyarin / Segovia), book (Spanish ed.)

Book Chapters

• "Nuevas perspectivas sobre Pablo" <New Perspectives on Paul> / In: Guía para entender a Pablo de Tarso (A Guide to Understanding Paul / 2014 Piñero Sáenz), book.
• "John Wansbrough and the Problem of Islamic Origins in Recent Scholarship: A Farewell to the Traditional Account." / In: The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough (2012 Segovia/Lourié), edited volume, xix-xviii.
• "Thematic and Structural Affinities between 1 Enoch and the Qur'an: A Contribution to the Study of the Judaeo-Christian Apocalyptic Setting of the Early Islamic Faith." / In: The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough (2012 Segovia/Lourié), edited volume, 231-67.

Articles

• “Identity Making, Religious Controversy and Self-Legitimation in the Early Islamic Sources: The Case of Musaylima." In progress.
• "Mythopoiesis at Work: Ibn Isḥāq’s/Ibn Hišām’s Legend about ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib’s Digging of the Zamzam Well in Mecca and the Sealing of Salvation History." In progress.
• "'Those on the Right' and 'Those on the Left': Rereading Qur'ān 56.1-56 (and the Founding Myth of Islam) in Light of Apocalypse of Abraham 21-2." / In: Studia Islamica. Forthcoming.
• "A Syriac Source behind the Blessing of Noah in Qur’ān 37.78-81? A Critical Reassessment of Luxenberg’s Reading Rereading.” In progress.
• "Del simulacro al laberinto: Los orígenes del Corán" <The Scholarly Labyrinth beyond the Pseudo-Scholarly Simulacrum: A New Look at the Origins of the Qur'ān> / In: Revista de Libros 193 [2014]. [1]
• "Pablo de Tarso, Israel y los gentiles: El nuevo enfoque radical sobre Pablo y el caríz judío de su mensaje" <Reassessing Paul's Jewishness: Israel, the Nations, and the Radical New Perspective on Paul> / In: Bandue 7. Forthcoming in 2013.
• "El judeocristianismo: Una nueva hipótesis; seguido de un resumen de la Demostración 17 de Afraates (sobre la divinidad de Cristo" <Jewish-Christianity: A New Hypothesis; Followed by a Summary of Aphrahat's 17th Demonstration (on the Divinity of Christ)>. / In: Isidorianum 37 (2010) 83-108.
• "Noah as Eschatological Mediator Transposed: From 2 Enoch 71-72 to the Christological Echoes of 1 Enoch 106:3 in the Qur'ān." / In: Henoch 33 (1/2011) 134-45.
• "La biblioteca de Qumrán y los esenios" <The Library from Qumran and the Essenes>. / In: Historia National Geographic 88 (2011) 40-48.

Congress Papers

• "'But My Calling Has Only Increased Them in Flight': A Study on the Textual Sources of the Quranic Noah and Its Parallels in the Sīra Literature; with a Note on the Method Required in the Modern Study of Islamic Origins."To be presented at the 4th Nangeroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar (Milan, 2015): "Early Islam and Its Connections to Judaism and Christianity."
• "Discussing/Subverting Paul: Polemical Rereadings and Competing Supersessionist Misreadings of Pauline Inclusivism in Late Antiquity: A Case Study on the Apocalypse of Abraham, Justin Martyr, and the Qur'ān." To be presented at the 3rd Nangeroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar (Rome, 2014): "Rereading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author." Enoch Seminar Online
• "'Those on the Right' and 'Those on the Left': Rereading Qur'ān 56.1-56 (and the Founding Myth of Islam) in Light of Apocalypse of Abraham 21-2." Presented to the symposium "Apocalyptique et figures du mal," Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, 2013).
• "Which Theologies in Conflict? Some Suggestions for a Symptomatic Rereading of 4 Ezra in Light of P. Sacchi's and E.P. Sanders' Contribution to the Study of Early Judaism, with a Final Note on the Hodayot from Qumran and Paul." Presented to the 6th Enoch Seminar (Milan, 2011): "2 Baruch - 4 Ezra: 1st Century Jewish Apocalypticism." Enoch Seminar Online
• "Noah as Eschatological Mediator Transposed: From 2 Enoch 71-72 to the Christological Echoes of 1 Enoch 106:3 in the Qur'ān." Presented to the 5th Enoch Seminar (Naples, 2009): "Enoch, Adam, Melchizedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch and Second Temple Judaism." Enoch Seminar Online

Interviews/Forums

• "Repensando la identidad de judíos, cristianos y musulmanes: Entrevista con Daniel Boyarin" <Thinking Jews, Christians, and Muslims Differently: A Short Interview with Daniel Boyarin>. / In: Editorial Trotta. Blog. 05/24/2013.
• "Paul the Jew." A forum/collective interview with Gabriele Boccaccini, William Campbell, James Charlesworth, Kathy Ehrensperger, Paula Fredriksen, Larry Hurtado, Mark Nanos, Isaac Oliver, Anders Petersen and Antonio Piñero. / In: Enoch Seminar Online.
• "1 Henoc y el estudio contemporáneo de la apocalíptica judía: Una conversación con Gabriele Boccaccini" <1 Enoch and the Study of Jewish Apocalypticism: A Conversation with Gabriele Boccaccini>. / In: EPIMELEIA 35-36 (2009) 7-28.

Academic Projects

• Early Islamic Studies Seminar (2013-), learned society (EISS)
• Discursive Strategies and Identity Making in the Qur'ān and the Early Islamic Sources (2014-2015 EISS Workshop)
• Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author / Third Nangeroni Meeting (2014 Rome), conference
• Rethinking the Making of a Difference: Jewish-Christian Boundary Drawing in Late Antiquity (2013- Madrid), conference

Original contributions to 4 Enoch

• Early Islamic Studies (with Emilio González Ferrín)
• Spanish Scholarship
• Spanish Scholars

External links

• Academia.edu
• Saint Louis University
• Cátedra de Cultura de Paz, Universidad Camilo José Cela
• International Research Seminar Rethinking the Making of a Difference: Jewish-Christian Boundary Drawing in Late Antiquity
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• Wikipedia (Spanish)