Twelfth Enoch Seminar (2023 online), conference

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TITLE (tentative): "Enoch Studies in the 2020s"

FORMAT: online

DATE: June 19-22, 2023

DESCRIPTION: The conference will focus on the work of scholars who have done new work on 1 Enoch. In other words, after an opening session in which we should grant a second round of "Enoch Seminar Life Achievement Awards", we will devote one hour to the work of each scholars, witha 15-20 min presentation followed by a panel of 2-3 respondents plenty of time for discussion. At the end we conclude with a wrap-up session.

Schedule (EST Time)

Day 1

9am-11am Opening Session

11:30am-1:30pm

2:30-4:30pm

or 9:15-10:30 -- 10:45-12 // 2:00-3:15 -- 3:30-4:45

Day 2

9am-11am

11:30am-1:30pm

2:30-4:30pm

Day 3

9am-11am

11:30am-1:30pm

2:30-4:30pm -- Wrap-up session

Participants

Confirmed speakers:

1. Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

2. Arjen Bakker, University of Groningen, NL -

3. Daniel Schumann, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany

4. Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan)

5. Logan Williams, University of Exeter, UK --

6. Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

7. Mark Leuchtner

8. Kelley Coblentz Bautch

9. Henryk Drawnel

10. Jonathan Ben-Dov

11. Joshua Scott

12. Ruben Bühner

13. Jolyan Pruszinski


Title: New Philology and the Discovery of New Works: Enoch in the First-Century CE

Abstract: Scholars working on fragmentary, damaged, or incomplete manuscripts are often bound to perform some degree of restoration—but how much? And to which imagined ‘whole’ do we affix our fragments? This talk will explore 1 Enoch as an exploration into how New/Material Philology can illuminate negative space in our archive of ancient literature. New Philology can guide scholars towards new clarity in describing and accounting for what is present in our manuscripts, and even more crucially, what is not. By not assuming an absolute presence of a certain work in every document, we can let attention to the phenomenon of absence open the way to newly dynamic stories of the evolution and development of ancient literature. In this case, new recognition of patterns of absence from our earliest manuscripts will clear the way for a new hypothesis: the re-dating of a crucial part of 1 Enoch to the heady early days of the first Jewish Revolt, and the tumultuous environs of the first-century CE.



Confirmed participants

  • Daniel Assefa
  • Kenneth Atkinson
  • Al Baumgarten
  • Gabriele Boccaccini
  • Kelly Coblentz Bautch
  • John Collins
  • Paula Fredriksen
  • David Hamidovic
  • Angela Harkins
  • Michael Langlois
  • Jim McGrath
  • Hindy Najman
  • Adele Reinhartz
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