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Title: Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Benjamin Reynolds, Lawrence Schiffman, Loren Stuckenbruck, Archie Wright, and Jason Zurawski). Secretary: Joshua Scott

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

Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm

Instructions to participants

Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.

It is not a public conference (in streaming, for a wider audience) followed by Q&A, but a series of ten workshops among invited specialists. Each session will include three presentations (10-15 minutes), three respondents (5 minutes), followed by a discussion among conference participants. At any time during the session, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by submitting their brief comments to the entire group through the Q&A chat. They may also signal your willingness to intervene briefly through the ‘raised hand’ function. Participants will be called after the first three respondents and prearranged discussants, as time allows. Depending on the length of the discussion, the end of each session might be delayed up to 10-15 minutes.

The conference will begin at 9:30am (EDT) on 29 June with a dialogue between Gabriele Boccaccini, John J. Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Sofanit Abebe, Rodney Caruthers and Isaac Oliver, on the present and future of studies on Second Temple Judaism. At 10am, we will present the Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award. The recipients of this award have made significant contributions to the Enoch Seminar and the study of Second Temple Judaism. This year’s recipients include Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant.

We will conclude our conference on July 2 with a wrap-up session, led by a group of panelists, and some final remarks.

All participants are expected to behave in accordance with norms for participation in academic conferences, and in particular are asked to note the following:

1. All audio and video will be muted during the sessions, except for presenters and those who are invited to intervene.
2. Participants are expected to identify themselves by their real names.
3. Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the Zoom features to communicate, but inappropriate comments or behavior will lead to immediate removal from the conference.
4. Participants should not record presentations in audio or video.

A shared google document with presentation abstracts, notes, and primary sources will be made available to all participants.

The Enoch Seminar Online Conference is generously supported by the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for the Judaic Studies (https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic) and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (https://mcecs.org).

Registration is free but a donation of $20 or more is highly appreciated to cover the costs of the conference and support the activities of the Enoch Seminar. You can go to: https://mcecs.org/register-for-enoch-seminar/ Below "Enoch Seminar Housing Payment," click on "Pay Now." This will take you to a PayPal page where you can select any amount you like.

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2020 ENOCH SEMINAR ONLINE IS NOW CLOSED.

Description (by the Chairs)

Our Approach to this Online Seminar

Participants should keep in mind that the tenor of their presentations/responses ought to be prospective rather than retrospective. A survey of past work is not appropriate here, nor is the statement of an issue that has been “chewed over” for a long time. We seek, instead, new ideas, theses, or approaches. A statement of a major issue or question that has come to light in view of recent scholarship would be excellent, as well, especially if it is “thick,” in the sense that it contains ideas that could be unpacked and debated in group discussion for mutual profit.

Time Allotted for Each Presentation and Response

Each presentation is only 10-15 minutes and each response is 5 minutes in length. Unlike in-person Enoch Seminars, we do not require participants to pre-circulate their papers. Thus, the emphasis is on brevity, clarity, and, to a certain degree, generality, at least within the session parameters. Accordingly, participants should expect that they will be given ample time to revise/amplify their ideas for publication in the conference volume, ideally in dialogue with the formal responses (which, as discussed, will also be published) and informal group discussion.

The Nature of the Seminar

For this Online Seminar, questions posed are intended to be quite open-ended. On the one hand, this allows panelists and respondents maximum room for exploration within the compass of the session topic. On the other hand, we are issuing invitations to targeted specialists in the expectation they require the least in the way of guidance and have the most likelihood of sizing up the question and offering meaningful responses to it. For this reason, participation is by invitation only. It is not a public conference (in streaming), but a workshop among invited specialists.

A New Kind of Conference for this Distinctive Moment

This will be a new kind of conference experience for most of us. We've tweaked a few things in order to accommodate the new medium, according us maximum fluidity in the conference architecture without sacrificing traditional scientific rigour. We are excited that the Enoch Seminar is taking this initiative in light of the current moment and given the likelihood that online platforms will continue to be important and omnipresent in various academic contexts. The Seminar means to carry on despite these difficult times, not only to maintain continuity and connexions, but also because the Republic of Letters, of which we are citizens, may bend with stormy winds but will not break.

Enoch Seminar Statement on Harassment and Discrimination

In its commitment to diversity, the Enoch Seminar actively welcomes international scholars, persons of different religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientation, and seeks gender parity as well as scholars at different stages in their academic careers.

The Enoch Seminar wishes to foster an ethos of inclusivity in all its sponsored events. It requires the highest level of professional and ethical behavior, free of all forms of harassment and discrimination, from all its members and from anyone participating in any Seminar or affiliated function.

The Board of Directors is presently composing a code of conduct for members of or participants in the Seminar and will strike an Ethics Committee to which any complaints concerning this code will be reported and evaluated in strictest confidence.

Schedule (New York Time Zone)

DAY 1 (Monday, June 29, 2020)

9:30am - 10am - Opening [Gabriele Boccaccini].

A conversation of Gabriele Boccaccini with John Collins, Amy-Jill Levine, Isaac Oliver, Rodney Caruthers and Sofanit Abebe on the present and future of studies of Second Temple Judaism, while participants gather from all around the world.

10:00am - 10:15am -- Welcome and Opening Remarks. [Kelley Coblentz Bautch]

10:15am - 11:15am -- "Awards Ceremony"

"Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Award" to honor Paolo Sacchi, George Nickelsburg, Robert Kraft, Michael Knibb, Michael Stone, and Devorah Dimant, "in gratitude for their exceptional contribution to the field of Second Temple Jewish Studies and their generous service in the Enoch Seminar."
Presenters: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Annette Reed, John Collins, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Jonathan Ben-Dov.

11:15am - 11:30am -- Introduction to the Conference [Lorenzo DiTommaso]

12:00pm - 1:30/45pm [Chair Archie Wright] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?

Panelists: Ida Fröhlich, Albert Baumgarten, Emmanouela Grypeou
Respondents: Matthew Goff, Matthias Hoffmann, Alexander Kulik
Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Ronald Herms, Mark Leuchter ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 1.

2:30pm - 4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

Panelists: Jason Silverman, Harold Attridge, Lorenzo DiTommaso
Respondents: Vicente Dobroruka, Pierluigi Piovanelli, David Hamidovic
Discussants: Giovanni Bazzana, Joan Taylor, Jan Dochhorn, Matheus de Carvalho, Henryk Drawnel ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 2.

DAY 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)

9:30am - 10:00am - Remarks from DAY 1: Gabriele Boccaccini, Miryam Bard, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am - 11:30/45am [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 3. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

Panelists: Carol Newsom, James VanderKam, Florentina Badalanova Geller
Respondents: Matthias Henze, Lester Grabbe, Anathea Portier-Young
Discussants: Fiodar Litvinau, Daniel Assefa, Sofonit Abebe, Henryk Drawnel ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 3.

12:00pm - 1:30/45pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 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?

Panelists: Gerbern Oegema, Karina Martin Hogan, Greg Sterling
Respondents: Hindy Najman, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Wright
Discussants: Erich Gruen, Francis Borchardt, Tessa Rajak ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 4.

2:30pm - 4:00/15pm [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?

Panelists: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Ryan Stokes, Archie Wright
Respondents: Michael Morris, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Angela Kim Harkins
Discussants: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Joshua Scott ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 5.

4:15pm - 5:00pm - [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Deborah Forger, and Rodney Caruthers] - Meeting of the PhD Students and post-Doc attending the conference.

DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020)

9:30am - 10:00am - Remarks from DAY 2: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jason Zurawski, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am - 11:30/45am [Chair Archie Wright] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Panelists: John Collins, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Miryam Brand
Respondents: Timothy Lim, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin Wold
Discussants: Cecilia Wassen, Esther Chazon, Patrick Angiolillo, John Kampen ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 6.

12:00pm - 1:30/45pm [Chair Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?

Panelists: Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock
Respondents: Jim Davila, Eric Noffke, Benjamin Reynolds
Discussants: Daniel Boyarin, Daniele Minisini, Isaac Oliver, Daniel Assefa, John Kampen ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 7.

2:30pm - 4:00/15pm [Chair Ben Reynolds] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

Panelists: Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Edmondo Lupieri
Respondents: Matthew Thiessen, Jutta Leonhart-Balzer, Craig Koester
Discussants: Gabriele Boccaccini, Paul Anderson, Charlotte Hempel, Isaac Oliver, Matthew Goff, Karen King ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 8.

4:15pm - 5:00pm - What's Next? Ideas and suggestions for the Future of the Enoch Seminar. [Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Archie Wright] - Meeting open to all those interested in participating in future Enoch Seminar events.

DAY 4 (Thursday, July 2, 2020)

9:30am - 10:00am - Remarks from DAY 3: Gabriele Boccaccini, Benjamin Reynolds, Archie Wright, Lorenzo Di Tommaso, Lawrence H. Schiffman

10am - 11:30/45am [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 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?

Panelists: Hector Patmore, Steven Fraade, Paul Mandel, Daniel Boyarin
Respondents: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Ronit Nikolsky
Discussant: Rebecca Wollenberg, Isaac Oliver ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 9.

12:00pm - 1:30/45pm [Chair Kelley Coblentz Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?

Panelists: Jason BeDuhn, Alberto Camplani, James McGrath
Respondents: April DeConick, Nicola Denzey-Lewis, Dylan Burns
Discussants: Karen King, Philippe Therrien, Torleif Elgvin ...

Click here for the abstracts and handouts for Session 10.

2:30pm - 3:45 - Wrap-up session

Panelists: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Gabriele Boccaccini

3:45pm - 4:00pm - Final remarks [Gabriele Boccaccini]: Twenty Years of Activities of Enoch Seminar: From Florence to the Cyberspace. In memory of Hanan Eshel, Shemaryahu Talmon, J. Harold Ellens, Klaus Koch, Michael Bonner, Geza Xeravits, Larry W. Hurtado, and James D.G. Dunn. Committed to building the new generation of scholars in Second Temple Judaism.

Confirmed Participants

Elisabetta Abate, researcher (University of Gottingen, Germany)*
@ Sofanit Abebe (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK)*
Oren Ableman (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)*
Moises Yao Acayan (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
@ Samuel Adams [respondent]
James Adcock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
Federico Adinolfi (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "S. Francesco", Italy)*
Jeff Anderson (Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage Campus, USA)*
@ Paul Anderson (George Fox University, USA) *
@ Joseph Angel (Yeshiva University) *
Patrick Angiolillo (NYU, USA) [Discussant] *
@ Giancarlo Paolo Angulo (PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA)*
Desta Anshebo (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)*
@ Luca Arcari (University of Naples, Italy) *
@ Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Franciscan Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
@ Kenneth Atkinson (University of Northern Iowa, USA) *
@ Harold W. Attridge (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
Thomas Babu (Serampore University, India)*
@ Florentina Badalova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute / Max Planck, UK / Germany) [panelist] *
Kyung Baek, Instructor (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
Alexander Bailey (University of Oxford, UK) *
Samuel Balentine, Professor of Old Testament (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) *
Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy)*
Lori Baron, Assistant Professor of New Testament (St. Louis University, USA)*
John Barton, Professor emeritus of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ Albert I. Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) [panelist] *
@ Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University, USA) [panelist] *
@ Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University, USA) [discussant] *
Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University, USA) [panelist]
Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa, Israel)*
Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum (New York University, USA)*
Luca Bertolino, Associate Professor (University of Turin, Italy)*
Harvey Van Bik (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA, USA)*
Laura Bizzarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Argentia)*
@ Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) [panelist] *
@ Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary, USA) [panelist] *
Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
Andrew Bowden (PhD candidate, LMU Munich, Germany)*
@ Daniel Boyarin (University of California Berkeley, USA) [panelist] *
Connor Boyd (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
@ Miryam T. Brand (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel) [panelist]
Lucas Brandon (PhD candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
Tom de Bruin, Lacturer in New Testament Exegesis (Newbold College, UK) *
@ Dylan Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) [respondent]
Rolex Macatdon Cailing (Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines)*
Piero Capelli (University of Venice, Italy) *
@ Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) [panelist]*
Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)*
Beryl Chan (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
Esther Chazon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
Tobias Churton (Exeter, UK)*
@ Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St Edward's University, USA) [panelist] *
Federico Moises Colautti (International Theological Institute, Austria)*
Paolo Collini (Italy)*
Jack Collins (Independent Scholar, USA)*
@ John J. Collins (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
Ryan Collman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)*
Robert Costello (University of Aberdeen, UK)*
@ Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Marianne Dacy (University of Sydney, Australia)*
@ James Davila (University of St Andrews, Scotland) [respondent] *
John Day (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ April DeConick (Rice University, USA) [respondent]*
@ Nicola Denzey-Lewis (Claremont Graduate University, USA) [respondent]
Kindy De Long (Pepperdine University, USA)*
Rodrigo de Sousa (Faculté Jean Calvin, France)*
Michael DeVries (University of Birmingham, UK)*
Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Professor of Judaism and Early Christianity (Universidad Nacional de La Rioja / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)*
@ Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa, Israel) [awardee] *
@ Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) [respondent] *
@ Vicente Dobroruka (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) [respondent] *
@ Jan Dochhorn (Durham University, England)
Maria Doerfler (Yale University, USA)*
Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)*
@ Rachel Dryden, post-doc (University of Cambridge, England)
Jean Duhaime (Université de Montréal, Canada)*
@ Oliver Dyma (WWU Münster, Germany)*
Florence Abimbola Egbeyale (PhD Candidate; Florida State University, USA)*
@ Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)*
@ Torleif Elgvin (NLA University College, Norway)*
John Endres (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)*
@ Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
Yael Fisch, post-doc (University of Oxford, UK)*
Roy Fisher (Loyola Marymount University, USA)*
@ Crispin Fletcher-Louis (University of Gloucestershire, UK)*
Channah Fonseca-Quezada (McMaster University, Canada)*
@ Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College, USA)
@ Steven Fraade (Yale University, USA) [panelist] *
@ Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [panelist] *
Michele Freyhauf (Durham University, UK)*
Lisbeth Fried (University of Michigan, USA)*
Rachel Frish (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
@ Ida Frölich (Catholic University Budapest, Hungary) [panelist]
Deane Galbraith (University of Otago, New Zealand)*
Josh Gervacio (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)*
Bonifatia Gesche (University of Saarbruecken and Vetus Latina Institute, Germany)*
Ananda Geyser-Fouche (University of Pretoria, South Africa)*
@ Matthew Goff (Florida State University, USA) [respondent] *
John Goldingay, Professor of Old Testament (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) *
Batsheva Goldman-Ida, PhD (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel)*
Pablo Gonzalez-Alonso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)*
David Goodin, Instructor (McGill School of Religious Studies, Canada)*
@ Lester Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) [respondent] *
Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)*
@ Erich Gruen (University of California Berkeley, USA) [discussant] *
Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)*
Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)*
@ Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm University, Sweden) [panelist]
Rebekah Haigh (Princeton University, USA)*
Chaya Halberstam (King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada)*
Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College, USA)*
Stephanie Hallinger (Universität Regensburg, Germany)*
@ David Hamidovic (Univerisity of Lausanne, Switzerland) [respondent]*
Todd Hanneken (St. Mary's University, USA)*
@ Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College, USA) [respondent]*
Tamar Hassin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
@ Christine Hayes (Yale University, USA)*
@ Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham, UK) *
@ Matthias Henze (Rice University, USA) [respondent] *
Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific University, USA)*
Andrew Higginbotham (Ivy Tech Community College - Lawrenceburg, USA)*
Gregory Hillendahl (London School of Theology, UK)*
Vered Hillel (MJTI, Israel)*
Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) [respondent] *
@ Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham University, USA) [panelist] *
Kerwin Holmes Jr., PhD candidate (University of Virginia, USA)*
Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther University, Germany)*
Tom Hull (Monash University, Australia)*
David Hymes (Northwest University, USA)*
Giovanni Ibba (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose S. Caterina da Siena, Italy)*
Lorenzo Innocenti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
David R. Jackson (Australia)*
Jozef Jancovic, Senior Research Fellow (Comenius University, Slovakia)*
Alex Jassen (NYU, USA)*
Michael Johnson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
@ Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)*
@ Jonathan Kaplan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
David Katzin (UCLA, USA)*
Martina Kepper, Lecturer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)*
Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA)*
Bethany Kinderman (University of Oxford, UK)*
Ian Kinman (Fordham University, USA)*
@ Karen King (Harvard University, USA)[discussant] *
@ Michael Knibb (King's College London, UK) [awardee] *
@ Craig R. Koester (Luther Seminar, USA) [respondent]
Ross Kraemer (Brown University, USA)*
@ Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania, USA) [awardee] *
Rob Kugler (Lewis & Clark College, USA)*
@ Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [respondent] *
Un Sung Kwak (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*
Peter Lanfer, Assistant Professor (Occidetal College, USA)*
Natalie Lantz, PhD student (Uppsala University, Sweden)*
Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor (Lehigh University, USA)*
Gwangsoo Lee (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)*
Ralph Lee (SOAS University of London, UK)*
@ Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [panelist] *
Jim Lepkowski (University of Michigan, USA)*
@ Mark Leuchter (Temple University, USA)
Joseph Levi (Shemàh School of Jewish Studies and culture Margulies Levins, Florence, Italy)*
@ Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Tetstament (Vanderbilt University, USA) *
Diana Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
@ John R. (Jack) Levison (Southern Methodist University, USA) *
Mung Ngaih Lian (Lutheran Theological Seminar, Hong Kong)*
@ Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)*
@ Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) [respondent]
@ Fiodar Litvinau, PhD candidate (LMU Munich, Germany) [discussant] *
Drew Longacre (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
Geert Lorein (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium)*
Kwang Meng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)*
Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA)*
@ Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola University Chicago, USA) [panelist]
Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley, USA)*
Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ Paul Mandel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel) [panelist] *
Peter Marinković (Evang.-Luth. Church of Bavaria, Germany)*
Giulio Mariotti (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Centrale, Italy)*
Iñaki Marro (LMU Munich, Germany)*
Eric Mason (Judson University, USA)*
Ferran Mateo Hernandez (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, Spain)*
Joshua Matson (Florida State University, USA)*
Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Italy) *
Alexander McCarron (University of Oxford, UK)*
Gavin McDowell (PhD Student, Université Laval, Canada) *
@ James McGrath (Butler University, USA) [panelist] *
Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College, USA)*
Yonatan Miller (University of Toledo, USA)*
Enric Cortes Minguella, Professor (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
Daniele Minisini (PhD candidate, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) *
@ Michael Morris (University of Mary, USA) [respondent] *
Craig Morrison, Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
Eva Mroczek (University of California, Davis, USA)*
Andrea Musumeci (Fondo Nangeroni, Italy)*
@ Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, UK) [respondent] *
@ Mark Nanos (Lund University, USA)*
Matthew Neujahr (Marquette University, USA)*
Matthew Neville (Birmingham University, UK)*
@ Carol Newsom (Emory University, USA) [panelist] *
@ George W.E. Nickelsburg (emeritus, University of Iowa, USA) [awardee] *
@ Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, Netherlands) [respondent] *
@ Eric Noffke (Waldensian School of Theology, Italy) [respondent]*
@ Gerbern Oegema (McGill University, Canada) [panelist] *
@ Isaac Oliver (Bradley University, USA)*
Daniel Olson (St. Mary's College, USA)*
Jessica Ontek, graduate student (Florida State University, USA)*
@ Andrei Orlov (Marquette University, USA)
Juan Carlos Ossandón (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Italy)*
Chan Sok Park (College of Wooster, USA)*
Sara Parks, Assistant Professor (University of Nottingham, UK)*
Tali Partock, post-doc (University of Cambridge, UK)*
Ronald Pasaribu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
Hector Patmore (KU Leuven, Belgium) [panelist]
Alexander Perkins, PhD candidate (Fordham University, USA)*
Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan, USA)*
Chad Pierce, Professor (General Synod, USA
@ Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa, Canada) [respondent]
Matteo Poiani (Université de Strasbourg, France)*
@ Anathea Portier-Young (Duke University, USA) [respondent]
Kirill Porubaev, PhD Student (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy)*
Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
Travis Proctor (Wittenberg University, USA)*
Jeremy Punt, Associate Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
Tessa Rajak (University of Reading, UK)*
Andrea Ravasco, Professor (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Ligure, Italy)*
Annette Reed (New York University, USA)*
@ Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) [panelist] *
Megan Remington, PhD candidate (UCLA, USA)*
@ Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University, Canada) [respondent] *
Jean-Michel Roessli (Concordia University, Canada)*
Kyle Roland, (NYU, USA)*
@ Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [respondent]*
@ Paolo Sacchi (emeritus, University of Turin, Italy) [awardee] *
Timothy Sailors (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)*
Carlos Santos Carretero (Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)*
David Satran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
@ Lawrence Schiffman (New York University, USA)*
Uta Schmidt (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany)*
Eileen Schuller, Professor (McMaster University, Canada)*
James Scott (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
@ Joshua Scott (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, USA)*
@ Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, USA) *
Anna Shirav (University of Birmingham, UK)*
Ari Silbermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)*
@ Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki, Finland) [panelist]*
Daniel Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA)*
Isaac Soon, PhD student (University of Durham, UK)*
Gary Staszak (St. Mary's University, USA)*
@ Gregory Sterling (Yale University, USA) [panelist]*
Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ Ryan Stokes (Carson-Newman University, USA) [panelist]
@ Michael Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) [awardee] *
@ Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich, Germany) [panelist] *
Kevin Sullivan (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)*
Carla Sulzbach (McGill University, Canada)*
@ David Suter (Saint Martin's University, USA)*
Michael Dov Swartz (Ohio State University, USA)*
Balazs Tamasi (Budapest Jewish University, Hungary)*
Seng Tawng (Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar)*
@ Joan Taylor, Professor (King's College London, UK)*
Hanna Tervanotko (McMaster University, Canada)*
Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne/Université Laval, Switzerland)*
@ Matthew Thiessen (McMaster University, Canada) [respondent]
Dieter Leon Thom (Australian College, Kuwait)*
Marcus Tso (Trinity Western University, Canada)*
W. Dennis Tucker (Baylor University, USA)*
Emmanuel Ordue Usue (Benue State University, Nigeria)*
@ Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus University, Denmark) [respondent]*
Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon, Portugal)*
Jordi Cervera Valls (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Spain)*
@ James VanderKam (University of Notre Dame, USA) [panelist]
Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen, Netherlands)*
Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford, UK)*
@ Cecilia Wassen
Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)*
@ Benjamin Wold (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) [respondent]
@ Archie Wright (Regent University, USA) [panelist] *
@ Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, USA) [respondent]*
Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University, USA)*
Yan Yu (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
Chi Yau Yue (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
Molly Zahn (University of Kansas, USA)*
Asad Zaman (Ohio State University, USA)*
Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University, USA)*
Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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 Title: '''Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins'''
-Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Loren
+Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Lorenzo DiTommaso (with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Miryam Brand, John Collins, Benjamin Reynolds, Lawrence Schiffman, Loren Stuckenbruck, Archie Wright, and Jason Zurawski). Secretary: Joshua Scott
-Stuckenbruck and Jason Zurawski)
 Date : June 29 - July 1-2  (Monday - Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday)
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 Daily schedule (EDT, Eastern Daylight Time): 9:30am-11:30am / 12:00pm-1:30pm / 2:30pm-4pm
-==Instructions==
+==Instructions to participants==
 Please, read the following instructions carefully. With more than 250 registered participants we must all commit to follow precise times and rules for an orderly discussion.