Jason M. Zurawski

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Jason M. Zurawski is an American scholar, at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). 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.

Biography

Jason Zurawski earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI USA) in 2016. His dissertation, "Jewish Paideia in the Hellenistic Diaspora: Discussing Education, Shaping Identity," was directed by Prof. Gabriele Boccaccini. In Fall 2016, he began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Qumran Institute at the University of Groningen with Prof. Mladen Popovic.

Since 2009 he has been the Secretary of the Enoch Seminar and since 2012 a member of the board of directors. He chaired the Fifth Nangeroni Meeting in Naples and will chair the Ninth Enoch Seminar in Camaldoli (18-23 June 2017).

Works

Edited Volumes

Articles

  • “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).

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