Milan 2012 – Papers

A. Introductory Papers

Lester L. Grabbe – The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: An Introduction
Gabriele Boccaccini – Non‐Apocalyptic Responses to Apocalyptic Events: Notes on the Sociology of Apocalypticism

B. Major Papers

Kenneth Atkinson – Understanding the Relationship Between the Apocalyptic Worldview and Jewish Sectarian Violence: The Case of the War Between Alexander Jannaeus and Demetrius III
Gerbern S. Oegema – Was the Maccabean Revolt an Apocalyptic Movement?
Pierluigi Piovanelli – Odio humani generis: Apocalyptic Writers and Integrated Historians at the Time of the Judean Wars
Anathea Portier-Young – Apocalyptic Worldviews

C. Short Papers

Torleif Elgvin – Texts on Messianic Reign from the Hasmonean Period: 4Q521 as Interpretation of Daniel 7
Årstein Justnes – 4QApocryphon of Daniel ar (4Q246) in Context
Daniel Machiela – The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Development of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Vicente Dobroruka – An unlikely mixture: Seleucids and Lagids in Daniel and in Persian apocalyptic
Paul Mandel – The Paradox of Midrash and the Apocalyptic Author: From Mesopotamian Divination to Rabbinic Midrash, through Qumran and Apocalypse
Yonder Gillihan – Apocalyptic Elements in Hasmonean Propaganda: Civic Ideology and the Struggle for Political Legitimation

D. Responses

Torleif Elgvin – Response to A Portier-Young, ”Apocalyptic Worldviews.”
Kenneth Atkinson – Response to Paul Mandel, “The Paradox of Midrash and the Apocalyptic Author
John Kampen – Response to Gerbern S. Oegema, “Was the Maccabean Revolt an Apocalyptic Movement?”
Edward Dabrowa – Response to A. Portier-Young, “Apocalyptic Worldviews”
Joseph Angel – Response to Årstein Justnes, “4QApocryphon of Daniel ar (4Q246) in Context.”
Giovanni Bazzana – Response to Pierluigi Piovanelli, “Apocalyptic Writers and Integrated Historians at the Time of the Judean Wars”
Albert I. Baumgarten – Response to Kenneth Atkinson, “ Understanding the Relationship Between the Apocalyptic Worldview and Jewish Sectarian Violence”
Joseph Angel – Response to T. Elgvin, “Texts of Messianic Reign from the Hasmonean Period”
Ory Amitay – Response to Pierluigi Piovanelli, “Odio humani generis”
Lorenzo DiTommaso – Response to Gerbern Oegema, “Was the Maccabean Revolt an Apocalyptic Movement?”