Welcome to Enoch Seminar Online International Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism.- Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins

Helmut Koester, professor of New Testament at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), USA, passed away on January 1, 2016.

Just published! — “The Jesus movement was not an Enochic movement but an outgrowth of the Enochic movement. The Synoptics are not Enochic texts but an answer to an Enochic problem” (Boccaccini, p.167). — Papers from the 7th Enoch Seminar (Camaldoli 2013). — “Since Richard Laurence published the first English translation of 1 Enoch in 1821, its importance for an ...

A German scholar and feminist theologian. See http://www.4enoch.org  

New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins Monday 12 June 2017 08:00-15:00 Arrivals and Lunch 17:00 Welcome 14:45-19:30 Session 1: Bible and Qur’ān Gabriel Reynolds, “Biblical Turns of Phrases in the Qur’ān” Respondent – Isaac Oliver 20:00 Dinner Tuesday 13 June 2017 09:00 – 10:15. Short Papers: Piety and Society in Early Islam Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, “The Concept ...

The 9th Enoch Seminar will be held in Camaldoli (Italy).

<postponed> The First Enoch Symposium will be held in Berlin in early August, immediately before 2017 ISBL, which also will be held in Berlin.  Our Symposium will examine the subject of heavenly ascents in early and late antique Judaism and Christianity. Our focus will be on the myriad expressions of the trope, in light of the full evidence (the later books of the Hebrew Bible, ...

Papers from the 3^ (2014) Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting in Rome, Italy. “Paul was not an apostle of intolerance who preached only one path to salvation, and was not only the apostle of Gentiles who showed two distinctive paths to salvation: the Torah for the Jews and Christ for Gentiles. Paul the Jew was the apostle of God’s Mercy, announcing ...

Papers from the 1^ (2012) Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting in Gazzada (near Milan), Italy. “This tightly focused collection of essays, from an invited seminar of international specialists, centres on the question of the apocalyptic worldview around the time of the Maccabean revolt. What was the nature of apocalyptic at this time? Did the Maccabees themselves have a distinct apocalyptic worldview? ...

Heikki Räisänen (1941-2015) was a Finnish scholar. Born in Helsinki, Räisänen received his doctorate in 1969 at the University of Helsinki. He was professor of New Testament studies at the University of Helsinki from 1974 until his retirement (2006). He was internally known for his studies on Paul and the New Testament. Räisänen published his memoirs in Finnish in 2014 ...

Marcus J. Borg (1942-2015) was an American scholar, Professor of Religion at Oregon State University., and a fellow of the Jesus Seminar.