Jason M. Zurawski

Jason M. Zurawski is an American scholar, completing his dissertation and lecturing at the University of Michigan. Ph.D. candidate in Second Temple Judaism at the University of Michigan (expected completion, January 2016). Dissertation title: "Second Temple Jewish Paideia within its Hellenistic Contexts." Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors of the Enoch Seminar.

Works

Edited Volumes

• Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism (2011 Zurawski, Boccaccini), edited volume

• New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012 Orlov, Boccaccini), edited volume

• 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

Articles

• “Separating the Devil from the Diabolos: A Fresh Reading of Wisdom of Solomon 2:24,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21.4 (2012): 366-399.

• “Hell on Earth: Corporeal Existence as the Ultimate Punishment of the Wicked in Philo of Alexandria and the Wisdom of Solomon,” in Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (ed. J. Harold Ellens; Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013), 1:193-226.

• “The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14,” in Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies (2014 Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume.

• “Ezra Begins: 4 Ezra as Prequel and the Making of a Superhero,” in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures (ed. Eibert Tigchelaar; BETL 270; Leuven: Peeters, 2014), 289-304.

• “From Musar to Paideia, From Torah to Nomos: How the Translation of the Septuagint Impacted the Paideutic Ideal in Hellenistic Judaism,” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Congress of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies (ed. Wolfgang Kraus, Martin Meiser, and Michaël N. van der Meer; Atlanta: SBL, forthcoming).

• “Paideia: A Multifarious and Unifying Concept in the Wisdom of Solomon,” in From Musar to Paideia: Education in Early Judaism and Christianity (ed. Matthew Goff and Karina Martin Hogan; Atlanta: SBL, forthcoming).

• “Mosaic Torah as Encyclical Paideia: Reading Paul’s Allegory of Hagar and Sarah in Light of Philo of Alexandria’s,” in From Musar to Paideia: Education in Early Judaism and Christianity (ed. Matthew Goff and Karina Martin Hogan; Atlanta: SBL, forthcoming).

External links

• Academia.edu