Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission / 2nd Nangeroni Meeting (2014 Dor), conference

Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (2014) is the topic of the first conference in the series of Nangeroni Meetings organized by the Enoch Seminar in Dor, Israel (8-12 June 2014).

Second Nangeroni Meeting (Dor, Israel; 8-12 June 2014)

Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

International Conference and Nangeroni Meeting

under the auspices of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculté de théologie et de sciences des religions / Institut romand des sciences bibliques (Université de Lausanne)

in collaboration with Enoch Seminar: International Scholarship in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins

Supported by the European Research Council

Basic Information

Title: Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

Chair: Alexander Kulik

Conference Committee: Alexander Kulik, Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, and Michael E. Stone

Secretary: Jason M. Zurawski

When and Where: 8-12 June 2014; Nahsholim Seaside Resort, situated on the Mediterranean Dor Beach, near ancient Dor

Description of Topic: The meeting and the resultant volume will deal with problems of preservation, reception, and development of Jewish texts and traditions from the Second Temple period in diverse ecclesiastical traditions.

The papers will present:

• (1) general up-to-date surveys of separate traditions (addressing, inter alia, recent developments in the state of research and perspectives for future research)
• (2) discussion of the destinies of specific texts and corpora among diverse traditions
• (3) methodological issues (distinction between originally Jewish and Christian material, modes of medieval transmission and compilation, early Jewish texts and motifs in liturgy and iconography, etc.)
• (4) innovations relevant for the topic.

We plan to have panels on the following topics:

• Overview of linguistic traditions
• Pseudepigrapha
• Philo
• Josephus
• Minor Jewish Hellenistic authors
• OT motifs in Christian pseudepigrapha
• Qumran and Christian traditions
• Comparative perspective: Preservation of Second Temple texts and traditions in Rabbinic, Islamic, and Manichaean transmission, and in late Judeo-Christian contacts.

The central purpose of discussing these diverse topics is to move towards mapping trajectories of early Jewish traditions among diverse cultures and to prepare a volume of introduction to the field.

Participants

The following have confirmed their participation in the volume and conference:

• Adler, William (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Aslanov, Cyril (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• Badalanova Geller, Florentina (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Baumgarten, Albert (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
• Boccaccini, Gabriele (University of Michigan, USA)
• Charlesworth, James (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)
• DiTommaso, Lorenzo (Concordia University Montreal, Canada)
• Hamidovic, David (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Himmelfarb, Martha (Princeton University, USA)
• Kraft, Robert (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Kulik, Alexander (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• McNamara, Martin (Chapter only)
• Murdoch, Brian (University of Stirling, Scotland; chapter only)
• Piovanelli, Pierluigi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Reeves, John (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
• Satran, David (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• Siegert, Folker (Universität Münster, Germany; chapter only)
• Sterling, Gregory (Yale University, USA)
• Stone, Michael (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• Stuckenbruck, Loren (University of Munich, Germany)
• Taylor, David (University of Oxford, England)
• Vliet, Jacque van der (Leiden University, Netherlands)
• Zurawski, Jason (University of Michigan, USA)

Provisional Program

Traditions

• Greek Transmission
  • William Adler
• Latin Transmission
  • Robert Kraft