Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author / 3rd Nangeroni Meeting (2014 Rome), conference

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Waldensian Faculty of Theology, Rome, Italy
Carlos Segovia, Camilo José Cela University
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan
Eric Noffke, Waldensian Faculty of Theology

Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author (2014) is the topic of the third conference in the series of Nangeroni Meetings organised by the Enoch Seminar in Rome, Italy (June 22–26, 2014).

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Third Nangeroni Meeting (Rome, Italy; June 22-26, 2014)

Chair: Carlos A. Segovia

Co-Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Eric Noffke

in collaboration with the Waldensian Faculty of Theology

Secretary: Jason M. Zurawski

Preliminary Information

When: June 22-26, 2014

Accommodations: Casa Valdese (Rome, Italy)

Location of Seminar: Waldensian Faculty of Theology

Purpose: The meeting aims at re-examining afresh Paul’s Jewish background, his criticism against the Roman Imperial order, and his contribution to early Christian identity formation. We plan to have panels on the following topics: (1) Paul within Second Temple Judaism , (2) Paul and Second-Temple Jewish Apocalypticism , (3) Paul and Second-Temple Jewish Messianism , (4) Paul and the Law , (5) Paul between Empire and Jewish Identity , (6) Is There a ‘Two-Way Salvation’ in Paul? , (7) Paul, Anti-Semitism, and Early Christian Identity Making .

Major papers will be offered by Gabriele Boccaccini, William Campbell, James Charlesworth, Pamela Eisenbaum, Larry Hurtado, Mark Nanos, David Rudolph, and James Waddell. Short papers on any of the aforementioned general topics will also be welcome. The pre-circulating papers shall be presented briefly (5 min.) before being discussed by the participants.

Paper Submission: They should be submitted by April 30, 2014. This will allow respondents and other participants enough time to prepare their responses.

Proceedings: A volume will be published with the proceedings of the conference, which overall purpose is to contribute to the contemporary re-reading of Paul as a Jewish author by analysing some of the most controversial issues currently addressed in Pauline scholarship in close dialogue with Second Temple studies.

Please contact the secretary of the Enoch Seminar, Jason Zurawski (jasonzur@umich.edu), for further information.

Accommodations

We have secured the lovely Casa Valdese on Via Farnese, right in the heart of Rome, for our accommodations (and the Convitto at the Waldensian Faculty for overflow). Four nights lodging and all breakfasts and lunches are included in the cost, paid directly to us in Rome via cash:

  • €0 – Authors of Major Papers
  • €200 – Major Paper Respondents
  • €300 – Everyone else
  • €200 – Guests (children under 14, staying in the same room, are free)

Registration

Participation in the Third Nangeroni Meeting is by invitation only. If you have already secured your participation, please fill out the official online registration form and pay your registration fee by February 15, 2014.

Prospective Participants

The following have confirmed their participation:

  • Baumgarten, Albert (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)*
  • Bazzana, Giovanni (Harvard University, USA)*
  • Boccaccini, Gabriele (University of Michigan, USA)*
  • Boyarin, Daniel (University of California Berkeley, USA)*
  • Campbell, William (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK, EU)*
  • Charlesworth, James (Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ, USA)*
  • Cosentino, Augusto (Independent Researcher, Italy, EU)*
  • deSilva, David (Ashland University, USA)*
  • Ehrensperger, Kathy (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK, EU)*
  • Eisenbaum, Pamela (Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO, USA)*
  • Fredriksen, Paula (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)*
  • Garroway, Joshua (Hebrew Union College, California, USA)*
  • Goff, Matthew (Florida State University, USA)*
  • González, Eusebio (Pontificial University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, EU)*
  • Hurtado, Larry (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)*
  • Jackson, David (William Carey Christian School, Australia)*
  • Johnson Hodge, Caroline (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA)
  • Ludlow, Jared (Brigham Young University, Utah, USA)*
  • Nanos, Mark (Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, USA)*
  • Noffke, Eric (Waldensian Faculty of Theology, Rome, Italy, EU)
  • Oegema, Gerbern (MgGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)*
  • Oliver, Isaac (Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA)*
  • Ossandón, Juan Carlos (Pontificial University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, EU)*
  • Paladino, Laura (European University of Rome, Italy, EU)
  • Petersen, Anders Klostergaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark, EU)*
  • Piñero, Antonio (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, EU)*
  • Punt, Jeremy (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)*
  • Rudolph, David (Messianic Jewish Theological Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA)*
  • Sailors, Timothy (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, EU)*
  • Satlow, Michael (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)*
  • Segovia, Carlos (Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain, EU)*
  • Sheinfeld, Shayna (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)*
  • Waddell, James (University of Toledo, OH, USA)
  • Wan, Sze-kar (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA)*
  • Williams, Megan (San Francisco State University, CA, USA)
  • Zetterholm, Magnus (University of Lund, Sweden, EU)*
  • Zurawski, Jason (University of Michigan, USA)*

Provisional Schedule

Sunday, June 22

8:00-15:00 -- Arrivals

17:00 -- Opening Session & Welcome (Hotel Casa Valdese)

17:45–19:30 -- Session 1: RE-IMAGINING PAUL AS A SECOND-TEMPLE JEW

20:00 -- Dinner (Hotel Casa Valdese)

Monday, June 23

8:00 -- Breakfast

9:00–10:15 -- Reading Sessions (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

  • (a) Philippians 2:6-11 on Apocalypticism/Messianism
  • (b) 1 Thessalonians 4:13—5:10 on Apocalypticism/Messianism

10:45-12:30 -- Session 2: PAUL AND SECOND-TEMPLE JEWISH APOCALYPTICISM (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

12:45 - Lunch ((Hotel Casa Valdese))

14:15–16:00 -- Session 3: PAUL AND SECOND-TEMPLE JEWISH MESSIANISM (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

16:45-18:00 -- Short papers (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

  • (a) Paul and Earlier Jewish Traditions I (Chair: Isaac W. Oliver)
    • Kathy Ehrensperger, "The Pauline Ekklesiai and Images of Community in Enochic Tradition in Bi-cultural Perspective"
    • Matthew Goff, "Heavenly Mysteries and Otherworldly Journeys: 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Context of Jewish Apocalypticism"
  • (b) Paul and Earlier Jewish Traditions II (Chair: Timothy Sailors)
    • Gerbern S. Oegema, "The Reception of 1 and 2 Maccabees in the Letters of Paul"
    • Antonio Piñero, "The Law of Moses and Paul: Does the Law of Moses Change in Messianic Times?"
    • Shayna Sheinfeld, "Who Is the Righteous Remnant in Romans 9–11? The Concept of Remnant from the Hebrew Bible, Early Jewish Literature, and Paul’s Letter to the Romans”
  • (c) Paul and First-Century CE Judaism (Chair: Jason M. Zurawski)

Tuesday, June 24

8:00 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:15 -- Short papers (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

  • (a) Revisiting Paul's Theology (Chair: Jeremy Punt)
  • (b) Paul, Ethnicity, and Identity Construction (Chair: Anders Klostergaard Petersen)
    • Jeremy Punt, "Paul's Jewish Identity in the Roman World: Beyond the Conflict Model"
    • Sze-kar Wan, "'To the Jew First and Also to the Greek': Paul’s Letter to the Romans as Ethnic Construction”
  • (c) Controversial Reinterpretations of Paul in Late Antiquity (Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld)
    • Augusto Cosentino, "Anti-Jewish Criticism in the Pauline Corpus"
    • Isaac W. Oliver, "The Historical Paul and the Paul of Acts: Who's More Jewish?"
    • Carlos A. Segovia, "Discussing/Subverting Paul: Polemical Rereadings and Competing Supersessionist Misreadings of Pauline Inclusivism in Late Antiquity – A Case Study on the Apocalypse of Abraham, Justin Martyr, and the Qur’ān"

10:45-12:30 -- Session 4: PAUL AND THE LAW (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

12:40 -- Lunch (Hotel Casa Valdese)

13:30 -- Leave for Ostia Antica (Pauline itinerary)

22:30 -- Return from Ostia Antica

Wednesday, June 25

8:00 -- Breakfast

9:00–10:15 -- Reading Sessions (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

10:45-12:30 -- Session 5: PAUL BETWEEN EMPIRE AND JEWISH IDENTITY (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

12:45 -- Lunch (Hotel Casa Valdese)

14:30–16:15 -- Session 6 – IS THERE A 'TWO-WAY SALVATION' IN PAUL? (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

17:00 -- Leave for Gregoriana

18:00-20:00 - Card. Bea Center for Judaic Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University

"Paul the Jew" (Daniel Boyarin) Respondents: Romano Penna, Piero Stefani, Gabriele Boccaccini. Chair: Philipp Renczes, Director, Card. Bea Centre for Judaic Studies

Thursday, June 26

8:00 -- Breakfast

9:00–10:45 -- Session 7: PAUL, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND EARLY CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MAKING (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

11:15–12:30 -- Closing Plenary Session (Waldensian Faculty of Theology)

12:45 -– Lunch & Farewells (Hotel Casa Valdese)

16:00-19 -- Additional lecture at the Campidoglio, hosted by the City of Rome and the Mayor (Sala Pietro da Cortona, Musei Capitolini)

"Paul the Jew" - Online Forum at the Enoch Seminar Website

In preparation to the meeting, an online forum has recently been opened at the Enoch Seminar Website to give all prospective participants and other specialists in the field the opportunity to share their views on some of the topics that will be addressed during the conference. The Forum can be accessed here: Online Forum at the Enoch Seminar Website. The format is that of a collective interview based on 8 major questions; all participants in the forum are invited to give a 150-200-word reply to each question. Answers shall be emailed to the secretary of the Enoch Seminar, Jason Zurawski (jasonzur@umich.edu), at the earliest convenience (if possible, before December 31, 2013).

Questions:

  • (1) A PARADIGM SHIFT IN PAULINE STUDIES? Pauline studies have undergone major changes in recent times. Which new research topics and methods would you especially highlight? Would you, moreover, agree to speak of a paradigm shift?
  • (2) PAUL’S “CONVERSION.” Paul and the author of Acts describe Paul’s “conversion” on the way to Damascus. How should this experience be understood?
  • (3) PAUL & ISRAEL. Which was Paul’s concern for Israel and his chief contribution to Second Temple Judaism? How and to what extent do novelty and tradition merge in his own thought-world?
  • (4) PAUL’S CONSISTENCY. May Paul have used different cultural-based conceptual registers to frame his message? Could this help us to properly distinguish between his core ideas and their provisional, multi-faceted and often fragmentary presentations? Could it also help us to better understand his apparent contradictions?
  • (5) JUSTIFICATION & SALVATION. Are the terms “justification” and “salvation” interchangeable in Paul? What precise relation can be traced between them? How historically accurate is the Lutheran view of Paul as the champion of “salvation by faith”?
  • (6) PAUL’S OPPONENTS. Who were Paul’s opponents within and outside the Jesus movement? Could a renewed identification of these shed new light upon the intent, meaning, and limits of some of his apparently ambivalent, controversial statements about the Mosaic law?
  • (7) PAUL & EMPIRE. What connections and eventual oppositions are there between Paul’s message and the semiotics of Roman imperial order? Why have scholars been so traditionally reluctant to take them into account and explore them systematically?
  • (8) PAUL & EARLY CHRISTIANITY. How did early Christians from the late 1st century onwards reinterpret and reuse Paul's message to the nations? Was early Christianity truly Pauline? Or was his message not just reshaped but also somehow subverted by the early Church?

Facilities & Accommodations

The sessions of the Enoch Seminar will take place at the:

Biblioteca Facolta Teologica Valdese

Via Pietro Cossa, 42

Rome, Italy

+39 06 320 4768

Map


The primary accommodations will be at:

Hotel Casa Valdese

Via Alessandro Farnese, 18

00192 Rome, Italy

+39 06 321 5362

casavaldeseroma.it‎

Map


We will also have people staying at the Convitto of the Waldensian Faculty (the site of the conference).

Getting to the Site

From Rome Fiumicino Airport

  • Take train to Termini Station
  • From Termini, take the subway (Linea A, the red one) in the direction of "Battistini." Get off at "Lepanto," the 5th stop from Termini.
  • The Hotel Casa Valdese (Via Alessandro Farnese 18) is a two minute walk from Lepanto station. See the map.
  • Tickets for the train and the subway can be purchased at Fiumicino. Total cost is about 17 euros.
  • Instead of taking the subway, you can also take a taxi from Termini. The cost should be around 25 euros.
  • You can also take a taxi from the airport directly to the Hotel. The cost is around 50 euros. Be aware of private taxis. Only use the white taxis which are parked at the taxi stand outside.
  • The cheapest method from Fiumicino is a bus to Lepanto station, but it takes at least an hour.

Walking directions from Hotel Casa Valdese to the Waldensian Faculty

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