Author Archives: Jason von Ehrenkrook
Book Launch (Parks, Sheinfeld, Warren)
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Read More »The Study of Islamic Origins (ed. Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, et al.)
Papers from the 4^ (2015) and 8^ (2017) Enoch Seminar Nangeroni meetings on Early Islam. The study of Islam’s origins from a rigorous historical and social science perspective is still wanting. At the same time, a renewed attention is being paid to the very plausible pre-canonical redactional and editorial stages of the Qur’an, a book whose core many contemporary scholars ...
Read More »The Middle Maccabees (ed. Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin)
Papers from the 9^ (2018) Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting at Gazzada (near Milan), Italy A focused, interdisciplinary examination of a tumultuous, history-making era The Middle Maccabees lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused analyses of the archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and textual evidence, framed within a wider world of ...
Read More »Christianity in Science Fiction Lecture
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Read More »What’s happening in 2021
Gender and Second Temple Judaism (ed. Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld)
Papers from the 10^ (2018) Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting in Rome. With contributions by Francis Borchardt; Kathy Ehrensperger; Sarah E.G. Fein; Gabriella Gelardini; Tal Ilan; Amy-Jill Levine; Gerbern S. Oegema; Sara Parks; Adele Reinhartz; Shayna Sheinfeld; Angela Standhartinger; Chontel Syfox and Daniel Vorpahl. Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite men. That fact creates specific challenges to ...
Read More »New Board of Directors (2020-2025)
According to our Bylaws, the governance of the Enoch Seminar is renewed every 5 years. Please welcome the new Board of Directors for the Enoch Seminar (2020-2025): Director, Vice-Directors (2020-2025): Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA (Founding Director) Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward’s University Austin, USA (Vice-Director) Loren Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany (Vice-Director) [on leave] Board of ...
Read More »James D. G. Dunn (1939-2020)
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of James D. G. Dunn (26 June 2020), one of the world’s leading specialists in the New Testament. His studies on Paul, the development of early Jesus Movement and the “partings of ways” between Christianity and Judaism have contributed to shape the current conversation on these issues. I had the ...
Read More »Larry Hurtado (1943-2019)
Another great loss to our community. Our friend and colleague Larry Hurtado passed away on November 25, 2019. He will always be remembered for his groundbreaking scholarship and his kind collegiality. He was a close friend of the Enoch Seminar. He gave an outstanding contribution to our recent seminar and publication on the christology of the Gospel of John and ...
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