Happy New Year to all members and friends of the Enoch Seminar! We are very pleased to see our membership list growing day by day and are very grateful for the many who have already joined our group and to those who will do so in the next days. We have a very rich calendar of events for 2023!
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Please join us on 25 January 2023 at 7:00 pm (EST) for a virtual event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and featuring the scholarship of Dr. Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Bowens will examine "Snapshots of Prophetic and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.," which will be followed by a robust conversation with panelists and participants.
The conceptions of Satan are varied and complex. In his new work, Archie Wright connects the origins of Satan through the formation of the early Christian church, to argue that these latter writers present a shift in the understanding of Satan to one that is significantly different from the Jewish Scriptures and the New Testament.
This virtual review panel welcomes Archie Wright for an introduction to his work, review presentations by Anna Angelini, Ben Wold, and Channah Fonseca Becar, followed by an open dialogue among participants.
A VIRTUAL ENOCH MEETING:
JOHN WITHIN 2nd TEMPLE JUDAISM
DATE: 7 March 2023 TIME: 09:00 - 11:30AM EST
Tentative schedule and list of speakers:
9:00am -- Welcome (Ben Reynolds, chair)
9:05-15 - Wally Cirafesi
9:15-25 - Adele Reinhartz
9:25-10:25 - Discussion among a panel of specialists on "John within Judaism: methods and implications" -- Gabriele Boccaccini (chair), Lori Baron, Bill Loader, Deborah Forger, Cecilia Wassen, Paul Anderson ...
10:25-10:30 - Break
10:30-11:30 - Discussion among a panel of specialists on "The within-Judaism perspective in the study of the New Testament" -- Gabriele Boccaccini (chair), Mark Nanos, Magnus Zetterholm, Frantisek Abel, John VanMaaren, Jocelyn McWhirter, Cecilia Wassen, Karin Zetterholm ...
Stay tuned for more information on how to register for this event.
Nangeroni Meeting ~ Naples 2023
DATE: 5-8 June 2023 THEME: "'Listen to the Sibyl in all things': Reconsidering the Sibylline Oracles" CHAIRS: Olivia Stewart Lester, Hindy Najman, and Gabriele Boccaccini SECRETARY: Joshua Scott
This conference will bring scholars of ancient Judaism, Classics, and early Christianity together for an interdisciplinary re-examination of the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles. These texts, historically underappreciated by biblical scholars and classicists, are becoming a site of growing interest as both disciplines increasingly turn to texts outside of their own canons, more deeply integrate gender into the study of antiquity, further their exploration of the themes of authenticity and forgery, and reassess relationships between Jews, Christians, and their neighbors across the ancient Mediterranean world.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
The Figure of the Sibyl: What roles does gender play in the presentation of sibylline prophecy across the collection? What are the political and literary implications of taking up a sibyl as a figure for producing Jewish and Christian prophecy?
Sibylline Pseudepigraphy: How does the ongoing production of Sibylline Oracles relate to larger Hellenistic, Roman, Jewish, and Christian practices of pseudepigraphic writing? How do the Sibylline Oracles resemble or participate in Jewish prophetic pseudepigraphy, and how might they have been shaped by Hellenistic and Roman educational techniques?
Sibylline Interpretation: How do the Sibylline Oracles reinterpret Greek mythology, poetry, and philosophy, on the one hand, and Jewish and Christian scriptures, on the other? How has the language of the Sibylline Oracles been inflected by surrounding literature, including the Septuagint and Homeric epic?
Sibylline Oracles as Oracles: How do the Sibylline Oracles resemble or differ from other oracle collections in antiquity? Why might the oracle as a literary type have appealed to ancient Jewish and Christian sibylline writers?
Time in the Sibylline Oracles: How is time constructed within the collection: past, present, and future? In what ways do the Sibylline Oracles participate in the tropes of apocalyptic eschatology, and how do they transform them?
Judaism and Christianity in the Sibylline Oracles: What can we learn from the Sibylline Oracles about intellectual and literary interactions between Jews and Christians in antiquity? How do we make sense of the distinct Jewish and Christian layers of the text alongside the Christian preservation of these texts as a collection?
DATE: 26-29 June 2023 THEME: Enoch Studies in the 2020s
This conference will focus on the work of scholars who have done new research on 1 Enoch. We will devote one hour to the work of each scholar, with a 15-20 min presentation followed by a panel of 2-3 respondents. At the end we conclude with a wrap-up session.
During this event, we will also award the Enoch Seminar Lifetime Achievement Award to 7 participants.
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
Joshua Scott
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