11. Apocalypticism 2021

11th Enoch Seminar / LMU Munich Congress on Apocalypticism in Antiquity

Online – 23-27 May, 2021

Chairs: Loren Stuckenbruck, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini

Secretary: Joshua Scott

To mark the 200th anniversary of the first “full” English translation of the “book of Enoch” by Richard Laurence (1821) and the 20th anniversary of the Enoch Seminar, the LMU Munich Congress on Apocalypticism in Antiquity has assembled 120 scholars and colleagues from around the world to address a much debated question that remains relevant for today. Since the famous 1979 Uppsala Congress on Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East (ed. David Hellholm; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1983) and the publication of the Semeia volume 14 entitled Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre (ed. John J. Collins; Missoula: Society of Biblical Literature, 1979), the scholarly world has undergone significant shifts in methods of approach, access to sources, and widening participation. These changes now offer the opportunity to assess whether terms such as “apocalyptic,” “apocalypticism,” and “apocalypse” can be meaningfully applied to multiple ideologies and writings preserved through sources from the ancient world. The lectures, presentations, and responses each fall into one or more of the following seven areas (with the number of talks, including responses, within each in parentheses):

(1)    Apocalypses, Method, and Reception (21)
(2)    Apocalypses in the Ancient Mediterranean Context (9)
(3)    Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Context (9)
(4)    Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins (25)
(5)    Christianity in Late Antiquity (17)
(6)    Judaism in Late Antiquity (9)
(7)    Islam in Late Antiquity (9)

In addition, in several panel sessions, both junior and senior scholars shall reflect on the legacies left by past scholarship, discuss recent developments, and suggest paths that may be taken by future research.

Registration

The Enoch Seminar is proud to host this unprecedented event and welcomes the interested public to seven keynote lectures, while inviting registering academics to join the conversations opened up in the conference sessions.

All registered participants will receive the link (Zoom Room A) immediately prior to the event.

Academics who register will also receive the links to the breakout sessions (Zoom Rooms B, C, and D listed in the schedule below).

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Conference Schedule

**All times are based on Eastern Daylight time (e.g., EDT is 6 hours behind Munich time)**
**All scheduled sessions are hosted in Zoom Room A unless stated in the schedule below**

DAY 1: SUNDAY 23 May, 2021

9:00am-9:15am:  Welcome (Loren Stuckenbruck, Kelley Coblentz Bautch) 

9:15am-10:30am:  Celebrations (Gabriele Boccaccini, chair)

200^th anniversary of Richard Laurence’s publication of “The Book of Enoch” (Loren Stuckenbruck)

“Uppsala and Its Legacy: 40 Years Along” (George Nickelsburg, David Hellholm)

20^th anniversary of the Enoch Seminar (Benjamin Wright, Devorah Dimant)

10:30am-11:00am:  ***Break***

11:00am-12:30pm:  Panel Discussion,“Contemporary Developments in the Study of Apocalypticism” (Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Chair)

         Panelists: Judith Newman, Sofanit Abebe, Olivia Stewart Lester, Ariel Hessayon

(10-12 mins. each, followed by discussion)

12:30pm-12:45pm:  Presentation of the Conference (Loren Stuckenbruck)

12:45pm-2:00pm:  ***Break***

2:00pm-3:00pm:  GROUP 1: “Apocalypses, Method, and Reception”

Keynote: Hindy Najman (Univ. of Oxford), “Time, Wisdom and Prophecy – Deconstructing Categories” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)

(30 mins., followed by discussion)

3:00pm-3:15pm:  ***Break***

3:15pm-4:45pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 1 (Grp 1, Sec 1): Zoom Room B

Chair: Jason Zurawski (Univ. of Michigan – Ann Arbor)

Meredith Warren (Univ. of Sheffield), “Rape, Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End (2013)” (15-17 mins.)

      Respondent: Lynn R. Huber (Elon Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Alexander Kulik (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem), “Gilayon in the Apocalyptic Paradigm: Rethinking Early Jewish Revelatory Tradition” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Juan Carlos Ossandón W. (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 2 (Grp 3, Sec 1): Zoom Room C

Chair: Gabriella Gelardini (Nord Univ.)

Peter Juhas (Univ. of Münster), “The Visions of Zechariah: A Case of Liminal Apocalyptic” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Oliver Dyma (Univ. of Münster) (5-7 mins.)

Madhavi Nevader (Univ. of St. Andrews), “The Book of Ezekiel: Between Academia and Apocalyptic” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Anna Shirav (Univ. of Birmingham) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 3 (Grp 5, Sec 1): Zoom Room D

Chair: Adela Yarbro Collins (Yale Divinity School)

Harry O. Maier (Vancouver School of Theology), “‘Hell frightens usefully’: The Various Uses of Apocalypses and Apocalyptic in Antiquity” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Ronald Herms (Fresno Pacific Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young Univ.), “Exploring Testamentary Literature in Conversation with Christian Apocalyptic Literature” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Archie Wright (Catholic Biblical Association) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

DAY 2: MONDAY 24 MAY, 2021

9:00am-9:05am:  Welcome (Loren Stuckenbruck)

9:05am-10:00am: Plenary Session, with presentation by Amy-Jill Levine (“Apocalypticism and Sexuality“) and the chairs and speakers from the previous day, open to all participants (Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini)

10:00am-11:00am:  GROUP 2: “Apocalypses in their Ancient Mediterranean Contexts”

Keynote: Jan Bremmer (Univ. of Groningen), “Jewish Apocalypticism in the Late Roman Republic and Its Roots” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)

(30 mins., followed by discussion)

11:00am-11:30am:  ***Break***

11:30am-1:00pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

     Session 4 (Grp 1, Sec 2): Zoom Room B

Chair: Matthias Henze (Rice Univ.)

Gerbern Oegema (McGill Univ.), “Apocalypses and Apocalypticism: History of Research, Genre, Worldview, Mindset, and Taxonomy” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Leslie Baynes (Missouri State Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Crispin Fletcher-Louis (Univ. of Gloucestershire), “Daniel, the ‘one like a son of man,’ and a new paradigm for the genre ‘apocalypse’” (15-17 mins.) [presentation slides]  [precirculated paper]

     Respondent: Benjamin G. Wold (Trinity College Dublin) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 5 (Grp 3, Sec 2): Zoom Room C

Chair: Gabriella Gelardini (Nord Univ.)

Loren Stuckenbruck (LMU Munich), “Not only about the Future: the (Elusive) Present in Early Jewish Apocalyptic Thinking” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Mateusz Kusio (Humboldt Univ. of Berlin) (5-7 mins.)

Benjamin Wright (Lehigh Univ.), “Some Modalities of Revelation in Second Temple Judaism” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Alma Brodersen (Univ. of Bern) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 6 (Grp 5, Sec 2): Zoom Room D

Chair: Liv Ingeborg Lied (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society)

Christfried Böttrich (Univ. of Greifwald), “The Historical Setting of the Apocryphal ‘Ladder of Jacob’” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Maria Cioata (Univ. of Manchester) (5-7 mins.)

Robert Hall, “Schools, Scribes, Prophets, and Kings: ‘Apocalyptic Wisdom’ in the Ascension of Isaiah” (15-17 mins.)

      Respondent: Meghan Henning (Univ. of Dayton) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

1:00pm-2:00pm:  ***Break***

2:00pm-3:00pm:  GROUP 3: “The Biblical Tradition”

Keynote: Martti Nissinen (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland), “Prophetic and Apocalyptic Divination: What Makes the Difference?” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)  [powerpoint slides]

(30 mins., followed by open discussion)

3:00pm-3:30pm:  ***Break***

3:30pm-5:00pm: Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 7 (Grp 1, Sec 3): Zoom Room B

Chair: Jason Zurawski (Univ. of Michigan – Ann Arbor)

Liv Ingeborg Lied (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society), “The Transmission of Apocalypses: Manuscripts, Methods and the Academic Imagination?” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Robyn Whitaker (Univ. of Divinity, Melbourne) (5-7 mins.)

James Crossley (St. Mary’s Univ.), “Political Apocalypticism and Millenarianism in the Study of Christian Origins: ‘Myths of Innocence’ or ‘Primitive Rebellion’?” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Michelle Fletcher (King’s College London) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 8 (Grp 4, Sec 1): Zoom Room C

Chair: James C. VanderKam (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Matthias Henze (Rice Univ.), “The Place of Early Jewish Apocalypses in Second Temple Literature: Contextualizing 2 Baruch” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Lydia Gore-Jones (St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, Australia) (5-7 mins.)

Jennie Grillo (Univ. of Notre Dame), “Tours of hell and heaven in the Additions to Daniel” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Sarah Rollens (Rhodes College) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 9 (Grp 5, Sec 3): Zoom Room D

Chair: Adela Yarbro Collins (Yale Divinity School)

April DeConick (Rice Univ.), “The Social Practice of Gnostic Secrecy and Revelation” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Philippe Therrien (Univ. of Lausanne and Univ. Laval) (5-7 mins.)

Dylan Burns (Univ. of Amsterdam),  “Gnosticism, Apocalypticism, and Dualism – one more time” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

DAY 3: TUESDAY 25 MAY, 2021

09:00am-09:05am:  Welcome (Loren Stuckenbruck)

09:05am-09:45am:  Plenary Session with presentation by Gabriele Boccaccini (“Apocalypticism, Origin of Evil, and Forgiveness of Sins; or, What does the Forgiving Jesus Have to Do with the Unforgiving Enoch?”) and chairs and speakers from the previous day, open to all participants (Chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)  [Powerpoint presentation]

09:45am-11:00am:  Panel Discussion, “New Perspectives in the Study of Apocalypticism”

Loren Stuckenbruck (Chair). Panelists: Luca Arcari, Holger Gzella, Eva Mroczek, Elena Dugan, Anders Klostergaard Petersen

11:00am-11:30am:  ***Break***

11:30am-1:00pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 10 (Grp 2, Sec 1): Zoom Room B

Chair: Jason Zurawski (Univ. of Michigan)

Ted Erho (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. of Munich), “Antiquarian Prophecy and the Rise of Apocalyptic” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Seth Sanders (5-7 mins.)

Domenico Agostini (Tel Aviv Univ.), “Reassessing the Zoroastrian Apocalypse between History and Eschatology” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Jason Silverman (Univ. of Helsinki) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 11 (Grp 4, Sec 2): Zoom Room C

Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini (Univ. of Michigan)

Grant Macaskill (Univ. of Aberdeen), “Locating the Slavonic and Ethiopic Enoch Literature in Relation to the Development of the New Testament Writings” (15-17 mins.) [presentation notes]

     Respondent: Elizabeth Evans Shively (Univ. of St Andrews) (5-7 mins.) 

Emma Wasserman (Rutgers Univ.), “What is Paul’s Apocalypticism? Towards a Minimalist Definition” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Jamie Davies (Trinity College, Bristol UK) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 12 (Grp 5, Sec 4): Zoom Room D

Chair: Liv Ingeborg Lied (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society)

Tobias Nicklas (Univ. of Regensburg), “Christliche Apokalypsen und Neubestimmung von Zeit und Geschichte” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Daniel Maier (Univ. of Zurich) (5-7 mins.) 

Witold Witakowski (Uppsala Univ.), “Ethiopic Apocalyptic Literature” (15-17 mins.) 

     Respondent: Daniel Assefa (Tibeb Research and Retreat Center, Addis Ababa) (5-7 mins.) 

Open Discussion (30 mins.) 

1:00pm-2:00pm:  ***Break***

2:00pm-3:00pm:  GROUP 4 “Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins”

Keynote: Annette Yoshiko Reed (New York Univ.),
“Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)

(30 mins., followed by open discussion)

3:00pm-3:30pm:  ***Break***

3:30pm-5:00pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 13 (Grp 2, Sec 2): Zoom Room B

Chair: John J. Collins (Yale Divinity School)

Kylie Crabbe (Australia Catholic Univ.), “Space and Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College School of Theology) (5-7 mins.)

Paul Kosmin (Harvard Univ.), “Enoch the Explorer: 1 Enoch 17-36 in its Hellenistic Context” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St. Edward’s Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 14 (Grp 4, Sec 3): Zoom Room C

Chair: Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College)

Stefan Beyerle (Univ. of Greifswald), “Messianism and Apocalypticism from the Edge of Judaism and Christianity” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Carla Sulzbach (McGill Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholm Univ.), “Lost in Afterlife? Mapping the ‘Hidden’ Apocalypses of Late Antique Christian Hagiography: invention, re-invention, adaptation and transformation for a genre” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Florentina Badalanova Geller (Univ. College London and Royal Anthropological Institute, London) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.) 

   Session 15 (Grp 6, Sec 2): Zoom Room D

Chair: Loren Stuckenbruck (Univ. of Munich)

Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham Univ.), “Gender and Jerusalem in the Apocalyptic Tradition” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Lynne Moss Bahr (Rockhurst Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Yakir Paz (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem), “‘Until the Great Day of Judgement’: Traces of Apocalypticism in the Incantation Bowls” (15-17 mins.) 

     Respondent: Matthias Hoffmann (Univ. Oldenburg) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

DAY 4: WEDNESDAY 26 MAY, 2021

9:00am-9:05am:  Welcome (Loren Stuckenbruck)

9:05am-10:00am:  Plenary Session with presentation by John J. Collins (“Genres, Definitions, and the Return of Primeval Chaos“), with chairs and speakers from the previous day, open to all participants (Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini)

10:00am-11:00am:  GROUP 5: “Late-Antique Christianity”

Keynote: Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia Univ. Montréal) “Late Antique Apocalypticism” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)

(30 mins., followed by discussion)

11:00am-11:30am:  ***Break***

11:30am-1:00pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 16 (Grp 2, Sec 3): Zoom Room B

Chair: John J. Collins (Yale Divinity School)

Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard Divinity School), “The Politics of Apocalypticism: From Judea to Rome and Back Again” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Rodney Caruthers (Gustavus Adolphus College) (5-7 mins.)

Jonathan Ben-Dov (Tel Aviv Univ.), “Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and the Hellenistic Context” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Helen Jacobus (Univ. of Manchester) (5-7 mins.)

Open Discussion (30 mins.) 

   Session 17 (Grp 4, Sec 4): Zoom Room C

Chair: Kathy Ehrensperger (Postdam Univ.)

Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham Univ.), “Time and Difference in 4 Ezra” (15-17 mins.) 

     Respondent: Shayna Sheinfeld (Univ. of Sheffield) (5-7 mins.)

David Hamidović (Univ. of Lausanne), “The Apocalyptic Imagination and the History of Imagination since the Last Decades” (15-17 mins.) 

     Respondent: Genevive Dibley (PhD, GTU Berkeley) (5-7 mins). 

Open Discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 18 (Grp 6, Sec 1): Zoom Room D

Chair: Esther Chazon (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)

Lawrence Schiffman (New York Univ.), “Were the Rabbis Apocalyptic?” (15-17 mins.) [precirculated paper]

     Respondent: Rebecca Lesses (Ithaca College, NY) (5-7 mins.)

Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton Univ.), “Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch),
Apocalyptic Tours, and Enoch Traditions” (15-17 mins.)  [presentation notes]

     Respondent: Andrea Lieber (Dickinson College, NC) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

1:00pm-2:00pm:  ***Break***

2:00pm-3:00pm:  GROUP 6 “Rabbinic Judaism”

Keynote: Ra’anan Boustan (Princeton Univ.), “The Apocalyptic Tradition in Late Antique Judaism: The Dynamis of Rabbinization, from Neutralization to New Creation” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)

(30 mins., followed by open discussion)

3:00pm-3:30pm:  ***Break***

3:30pm-5:00pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 19 (Grp 1, Sec 4): Zoom Room B

Chair: John J. Collins (Yale Divinity School)

Anthony Keddie (Univ. of British Columbia), “Everyday Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Studies After the Quotidian Turn” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Dereck Daschke (Truman State Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Lester Grabbe (Univ. of Hull – Emer.), “Apocalypse How?  Toward a Revised Definition, with Persian Examples” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Geoffrey Herman (École Pratique des Hautes Études) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 20 (Grp 4, Sec 5): Zoom Room C

Chair: Deborah Forger (Dartmouth College)

Ben Reynolds (Tyndale Univ.), “The Necessity of Form and Spatial Content in Apocalypses and the Apocalyptic Framework of the Gospel of John” (15-17 mins.)   [precirculated paper]

     Respondent: Catrin Williams (Univ. of Wales Trinity St. David) (5-7 mins.)

Cecilia Wassén (Uppsala Univ.), “Healing at the End of Days: The Significance of Jesus’ Encounters with the Sick, Impure, and Demon Possessed” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Lidija Novakovic (Baylor Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 21 (Grp 7, sec 1): Zoom Room D

Chair: Isaac W. Oliver (Bradley Univ.)

Stephen Shoemaker (Univ. of Oregon), “Is the Qur’an Apocalyptic?” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Helen Spurling (Univ. of Southampton) (5-7 mins.)

Zishan Ghaffar (Univ. of Paderborn), “The anti-apocalyptic nature of Muhammad’s prophetic wisdom” (15-17 mins.)

     Respondent: Rachel Dryden (Univ. of Cambridge) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

DAY 5: THURSDAY 27 MAY, 2021

9:00am-9:05am:  Welcome (Loren Stuckenbruck)

9:05am-10:00am: Plenary Session with presentation by Karen King (“Early Christian Apocalypticizing“), with the chairs and speakers from the previous day, open to all participants. (Chair: Loren Stuckenbruck). 

10:00am-11:00am:  GROUP 7: “Early Islam”

Keynote Paper:  David Cook (Rice Univ.), “Apocalypse and the Urbane in Sunni and Shi’ite Islam” (chair: Loren Stuckenbruck)

(30 mins., followed by open discussion)

11:00-11:30:  ***Break***

11:30am-1:00pm:  Breakout Sessions/Workshops

   Session 22 (Grp 1, Sec 5): Zoom Room B

Chair: Matthias Henze (Rice Univ.)

Kelley Coblentz Bautch, “What have forty years revealed? Reflections on M. Smith’s ‘History of Apokalypto and Apokalypsis’” (15-17 mins.)

   Respondent: Daniel Machiela (McMaster Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Carol Newsom (Emory Univ.), “What’s in a Name? The Problem of Delineating the Object of Our Study” (15-17 mins.)

   Respondent: Anders Klostergaard Petersen (Univ. of Aarhus) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 23 (Grp 4, Sec 6): Zoom Room C

Chair: James C. VanderKam

Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary), “Reading Paul as an Apocalyptic Thinker: Where Do We Go from Here?” (15-17 mins.)

   Respondent: Ann Jervis (Wycliffe College) (5-7 mins.)

Matthew Goff (Florida State Univ.), “The Qumran Book of Giants and the Apocalyptic Tradition” (15-17 mins.)

   Respondent: Laura Bizzarro (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Argentina) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

   Session 24 (Grp 7, Sec 2): Zoom Room D

Chair: David B. Cook (Rice Univ.) 

Guillaume Dye (Université libre de Bruxelles), “Sura 18 and its rock’” (15-17 mins.)  [precirculated paper]  [Powerpoint slides]

   Respondent: Andreas Kaplony (LMU Munich) (5-7 mins.)

Hadi Sabouhi (Univ. of California at Irvine), “The Son of the Slave-girl – The Maternal Ancestry of the Shī-ī Messianic Figure” (15-17 mins.) [precirculated paper] [Powerpoint slides]

   Respondent: Kameliya Atanasova (Washington & Lee Univ.) (5-7 mins.)

Open discussion (30 mins.)

1:00pm-2:00pm:  ***Break***

2:00pm-4:00pm:  Final Wrap-up Session (Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini)

Panelists: Hindy Hajman, Jan Bremmer, Martti Nissinen, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Ra’anan Boustan, David Cook (10 mins each, plus discussion)

4:00pm-4:30pm:  Conclusions (Loren Stuckenbruck)

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