Talk:2020 Enoch Seminar Online

Monday, June 29, 2020: Opening Session

• 2pm -- Welcome and Opening Remarks

• 12:00pm-1:30pm [Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 3. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple Judaism?

• Lester Grabbe (?) -- Giovanna Bazzana -- Jason Silverman (?) - Enrico Raffaeli

Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Three sessions

• 10am-11:30am [Kelley Bautch] -- 2. Which are the different ways in which evil was understood to enter into the world? Which historical or social circumstances prompted the preference from one or the other? Was it a case of a religious development in response to fundamental changes in the religious environment? In both cases, where and why?

• Lester Grabb (?) -- Andrei Orlov -- Loren Stuckenbruck -- Anathea Portier-Young

• 2:30pm-4pm [Chair Jason Zurawski] -- 4. How do non-apocalyptic texts of the period engage with the issue of the origin of evil and the theological problems it raises? Is there literary evidence, explicit or implicit, for contemporary debate regarding the existence of multiple explanations for the origin of evil in the world, particularly regarding the ways that each explanation addresses theological and existential issues?

• • Gerbern Oegema -- Benjamin Wright (?) -- Jason Zurawski -- Matthew Goff (?)

• 10am-11:30am [Chair Lorenzo DiTommaso] -- 5. Are evil human or superhuman figures a necessary and functional part of the earliest expressions of evil, or did they develop later?
  • Lorenzo DiTommaso ... Archie Wright ... Kelley Bautch ... Ryan Stokes

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 -- Three sessions

• 12:00pm-1:30pm [Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 6. The origin of evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Deborah Dimant (?) ... John Collins (?) ... Angela Kim (?) ... Ida Froelich (?) -- James Vanderkam (?) -- Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer -- Miryam Brand

• 2:30pm-4pm [Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 7. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in the Parables of Enoch and the Synoptics?
• Giovanni Bazzana ... Joseph Angel (?) ... Pierluigi Piovanelli ... Grant Makaskill

• 10am-11:30am [Gabriele Boccaccini] -- 8. Do Paul and John stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Synoptics and Jewish apocalyptic literature of the era, or do they represent a new direction? Do we have evidence of divergent notions on the origin of evil in the early Jesus movement?

• • Gabriele Boccaccini ... Luca Arcari ... Paula Fredriksen (?) ... Emma Wasserman -- Adele Reinhartz

Thursday, July 2, 2020 -- Three sessions & Conclusion

• 12:00pm-1:30pm [Jason Zurawski] -- 9. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in Rabbinic literature? Does it/they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, or does it represent a wholly new explanation?

• Paul Mandel -- Daniel Boyarin -- Andrei Orlov -- Rebecca Wallenberg

• 2:30pm-4pm [Chair Kelley Bautch] -- 10. How is the problem of evil and its origin addressed in "gnostic" (Valentinian, Sethian, Mandaean) literature? Do they stand in line with trajectories already evident in the Second Temple Period, or represent a wholly new explanation?
  • James McGrath ... April DeConick ... Karen Kim (?) (panelists)

• 2:30pm-4pm [Loren Stuckenbruck] -- 1. If "apocalyptic is the mother of theology," is the problem of evil the mother of "apocalyptic"?
  • Gabriele Boccaccini ... Benjamin Reynolds ...

• Final comments