Second Enoch Graduate Seminar (2008 Princeton), conference
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The Second Enoch Graduate Seminar (May 16-18, 2008), is the second international Conference for advance doctoral students and recent Ph.D.'s organized by the Enoch Seminar, as part of the ongoing series of meetings of the Enoch Graduate Seminar (since 2006)
Overview
Chairs: James H. Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary), Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton University), and Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan).
Date: May 16-18, 2008
Place: Princeton Theological Seminary / Princeton university
Secretary: Justin Winger (University of Michigan)
The second meeting of the Enoch Graduate Seminar was held May 16-18, 2008 on the campus of the Princeton Theological Seminary, chaired by Profs. [James H. Charlesworth]], Martha Himmelfarb, and Gabriele Boccaccini. The sessions began at noon on May 16 and concluded at noon on May 18. Graduate or Post-Doc students working in the general area of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins were invited to attend. The secretary of the Conference was ...
23 papers were selected and presented at the Seminar, from seven countries (Canada, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States of America). They circulated in advance among the participants and were only briefly introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour was be devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants acting as respondents. The best papers were recommended for publication.
The next meetings of the Enoch Graduate Seminar were held at the Catholic University of Budapest (2010), the University of Notre Dame (2012), McGill University / Concordia University Montreal (2014), etc.
Schedule
May 2, 2006 -- Session 1: Enoch in Context
- Todd R. Hanneken - Angels and Demons in the Book of Jubilees and Contemporary Apocalypses
- David Kudan - Sabbath Worship in the Parables of Enoch (I Enoch 37-71)
- Kristine Ruffatto - Polemics with Enochic Traditions in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian
- Stephane Saulnier - The Moon in the Astronomical Book of Enoch: The 364-Day Calendar and the “Proper” Lunar Year - Identification of a Forgotten Connection?
May 3, 2006 -- Sessions 2 & 3: Enoch and Qumran
- Ariel Feldman - Mikra and Aggada in the Flood Story according to 4Q370
- Dorothy Peters - The Tension Between Enoch and Noah in the Aramaic Enoch Texts at Qumran
- Mladen Popovic - 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and the Cultural Locus of Physiognomics and Astrology in Second Temple Period Judaism
- Kamilla Skarström - The Meaning of Ruah in 1QS 3:13-4:26
- Hanne von Weissenberg - Covenantal Motives in 4QMMT
- Ian Werrett - Multiple Meanings: The Myth of the Watchers in the Damascus Document
May 4, 2006 -- Session 4: Enoch and the New Testament
- Pierpaolo Bertalotto - The Superhuman Melchizedek: A Qumranic Response to the Enochic Son of Man
- Chad Pierce - Reexamining Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits in Prison: Punishment Traditions in the Book of Watchers and their Influence on 1 Peter 3:18-22
- Matteo Silvestrini - The «Pauperistic» Theology in the Gospel Luke's Sources, Qumrân and 1Enoch
- James Waddell - Adam, Enoch and Paul: Merging Intellectual Traditions of Early Christology
Participants
- Aryeh Amihay, Princeton University, USA
- Veronika Bachmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- George Branch-Trevathan, Emory University, USA
- Ted M. Erho, Trinity Western University, Canada
- Ariel Feldman, University of Haifa, Israel
- Ari Finkelstein, Harvard University, USA
- Alexandria Frisch, New York University, USA
- Dragos A. Giulea, Marquette University, USA
- Reuven Kiperwasser, Jerusalem, Israel
- Anne Kreps, University of Michigan, USA
- Ingrid E. Lilly, Emory University, USA
- Eric Miller, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA
- Ivan Miroshnikov, Moscow State University, Russia
- Liudmila Navtanovich, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Matthew V. Novenson, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
- Dorothy Peters, Trinity Western University, Canada
- Brian Rhea, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
- Kristine Ruffatto, Marquette University, USA
- Alexey Somov, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
- Jonathan E. Soyars, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
- Balázs Tamási, PPKE, Hungary
- Andrew Van Kirk, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
- Andy Chi Kit Wong, McMaster University, Canada