Carlos A. Segovia (1970-), scholar

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Carlos A. Segovia (b.1970) is a British-born Spanish scholar. He is currently associate professor in religious studies at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid, Spain.

E-mail address: segoviamail@gmail.com

Biography

Carlos A. Segovia was born in London, England, on May 22, 1970. He earned his PhD in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Universitas Complutensis of Madrid (Spain) in 2004. He was Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies at the National University of Distant Education and the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid from 2007 to 2011, and Research Associate in Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Seville from 2008 to 2011. He is now Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Editor in charge for Spanish scholarship of 4 Enoch. From 2009 to 2012 he joined Book Reviews Commission of the journal Henoch, and in 2011 the Board of Directors of the Enoch Seminar. A former scholar in Contemporary Philosophy, Religious and Islamic Studies (he has translated into Spanish and commented inter alia the works of Abu l-Hasan al-Ash'ari, Avicenna, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi), since 2008 he has almost entirely devoted his research to the study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Monographs

  • Guía para entender a Pablo de Tarso: ¿Un caso de marketing religioso en el marco plural del judaísmo del siglo I? <A Guide to Understanding Paul: The Apostle's Strategies of Marketing Religion in Light of 1st-Century Judaisms> [provisional title], with Antonio Piñero Sáenz. Madrid: Trotta (forthcoming in 2013).
  • Un judío mesiánico: El redescubrimiento contemporáneo de Pablo de Tarso <A Messianic Jew: Rereading Paul Differently> (forthcoming).
  • Apocalypticism and Intertextuality: Studies in the Literature of Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Formative Islam (in progress)

Courses

Translations

Book Chapters

  • "Isaiah 66:19, 21 and Paul's Gentile Mission: A Contribution to the Contemporary Rereading of Paul as a Jewish Author." / In: Paul and Scripture. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Gregory P. Fewster. Pauline Studies. Leiden: E. J. Brill (forthcoming in 2015).
  • "Thematic and Structural Affinities between 1 Enoch and the Qur'an: A Contribution to the Study of the Judaeo-Christian Apocalyptic Setting of the Early Islamic Faith." / In: The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Other Various Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough. Edited by Basil Lourié and Carlos A. Segovia. Orientalia Judaica Christiana 3, 231-67. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press (forthcoming in 2011).

Articles

  • "Pablo de Tarso, Israel y los gentiles: El nuevo enfoque radical sobre Pablo y el caríz judío de su mensaje" <Paul of Tarsus, Israel, and the Gentiles: The Radical New Perspective on Paul and Its Contribution to the Study of Paul's Message in Its Jewish Setting> (forthcoming).
  • "1 Henoc y el estudio contemporáneo de la apocalíptica judía: Una conversación con Gabriele Boccaccini" <1 Enoch and the Contemporary Study of Jewish Apocalypticism: A Conversation with Gabriele Boccaccini>. / In: EPIMELEIA 35-36 (2009) 7-28.
  • "El judeo-cristianismo: Una nueva hipótesis; seguido de un resumen de la Demostración 17 de Afraates (sobre la divinidad de Cristo" <Jewish-Christianity: A New Hypothesis; Followed by a Summary of Aphrahat's 17th Demonstration (on the Divinity of Christ)>. / In: Isidorianum 37 (2010) 83-108.
  • "Noah as Eschatological Mediator Transposed: From 2 Enoch 71-72 to the Christological Echoes of 1 Enoch 106:3 in the Qur'an." / In: Henoch 33 (1/2011) 134-45.
  • "La biblioteca de Qumrán y los esenios" <The Library from Qumran and the Essenes>. / In: Historia National Geographic 88 (2011) 40-48.

Lectures

  • "Judaísmos del Segundo Templo y religiones del Libro: Evolución y reelaboración de dos teologías en litigio" <Conflicting Theologies in Second Temple Judaism(s) and Beyond:Book Religions: Christian and Islamic Developments> / Círculo de Estudios Espirituales Comparados / Arenas de San Pedro [Spain] / December 6, 2008.
  • "El legado de la apocalíptica judía en la cristiandad etiópica" <Jewish Apocalypticism and Its Legacy in Ethiopic Christianity> / University of Seville / Seville [Spain] / February 13, 2009.
  • "1 Henoc y los orígenes del cristianismo" <1 Enoch and Christian Origins> / Seminario de Hermenéutica Comparada / University of Seville / Seville [Spain] / January 15, 2010.
  • "Los esenios y los orígenes del cristianismo en los manuscritos del mar Muerto" <The Essenes and Christian Origins in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls> / Huete Town Hall & Museum / Huete [Spain] / August 9-11, 2010.
  • "La contraposición luz/tinieblas en la admonición escatológica final del Henoc etiópico (1 Henoc 108): Su significado en el contexto de la apocalíptica judía y su influencia en el Nuevo Testamento" <Light and Darkness in the Final Eschatological Admonition of Ethiopic Enoch (1 Enoch 108): Its Meaning within Jewish Apocalypticism and Its Influence upon the New Testament> / Ateneo de Madrid / Madrid [Spain] / December 14, 2010.
  • "Identidad, alteridad y polidoxia en la literatura apocalíptica judía del siglo I: Una nueva lectura de 4 Esdras" <Religious Identity/Alterity and the Notion of Polydoxa in 1st-Century Jewish Apocalyptic Literature: Towards a New Reading of 4 Ezra> / Seminario de Hermenéutica Comparada / University of Seville / Seville [Spain] / January 21, 2011.
  • "Los manuscritos del mar Muerto, el judaísmo henóquico y los orígenes del cristianismo" <Dead Sea Scrolls, Enochic Judaism, and Christian Origins> / Aula Abierta / National University of Distant Education (UNED) / Cuenca [Spain] / February 14, 2011.
  • "El Corán como palimpsesto: Sobre la influencia de la apocalíptica judía y cristiana en la formación del corpus coránico" <Reading the Qur'an as a Palimsest: Some Reflections on the Influence of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature in the Formation of the Quranic Corpus> / Master en Religiones y Sociedades / Pablo de Olavide University / Seville [Spain] / June 20, 2011.
  • "¿Fue Pablo cristiano? El judaísmo mesiánico de Pablo de Tarso a la luz de la investigación actual" <Was Paul Christian? Paul of Tarsus' Jewish Messianism in Contemporary Scholarship> / Una Nueva Mirada a Pablo de Tarso / Huete Town Hall & Museum / Huete [Spain] / August 8, 2011.

Original contributions to 4 Enoch

External links

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