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We’re delighted to announce the publication of a Festschrift in honor of the founder and director of the Enoch Seminar, Gabriele Boccaccini. Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini. Edited by J. Harold Ellens, Isaac W. Oliver, Jason von Ehrenkrook, James Waddell, and Jason Zurawski. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 38. Berlin: ...

We are pleased to invite all members and friends of the Enoch Seminar to the following four events offered at this year’s Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Denver, CO. (1) Fri, Nov 16 (12-2 pm) – “Paul the Jew: A Discussion with Mark Nanos and Gabriele Boccaccini” The goal of the meeting (chaired by Isaac Oliver) is to have a conversation ...

The 7th Enoch Graduate Seminar was held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 26th-28th. The doctoral students from all over the world shared their innovative ideas and methods in a collegial and friendly atmosphere under the supervision of David Hamidovic (Professor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity) in collaboration with Eleonora Serra (PhD. candidate). ...

A Report on the 9th Nangeroni Meeting For five beautiful days in mid June, an international group of more than thirty academics – archaeologists, textual scholars, ancient historians, and numismatists from Israel, Europe, and North America – gathered in the glorious environment of the Villa Cagnola in Gazzada to discuss the emergence of the Hasmonean state. This conference, “The Period ...

The 10th Enoch Nangeroni meeting on “Gender and Second Temple Judaism” took place on 17-21 June in Rome, Italy. Participants met in Casa Schwarz where they analyzed and discussed topics related to gender and Second Temple Judaism, broadly conceived. While all topics led to productive conversation, of particular emphasis were discussions on women as portrayed in texts such as Jubilees, ...

Our dearest friend J.Harold Ellens passed away on Friday, 13 April 2018. We are full of sadness. What a great loss of a most beloved friend! We shared together more than 25 years of common scholarly work. He was one of the founding members of the Enoch Seminar, serving as secretary for the first decade and then as President of ...

In preparation for our Rome seminar, 4 Enoch presents a comprehensive survey of Women Authorship on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins in scholarship and the arts. From the Renaissance to the present, women authors, novelists, and scholars have given an exceptional contribution to our understanding of the period. In particular, the 4 Enoch entries offer the opportunity to rediscover the ...

The First Enoch Colloquium was successfully held at Harvard University in the days before the SBL American Meeting at Boston. Around 40 international specialists gathered to discuss the different concepts of time in Jewish apocalypticism and the broader Greco-Roman world. Among them were many veterans of the Enoch Seminar, like the chairs Giovanni Bazzana and Gabriele Boccaccini, and John and ...

  Welcome & Introduction to the Enoch Seminar Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan)   Concluding Panel for the First Enoch Seminar Colloquia Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan), Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard University), Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St. Edwards University), Michael Stone (Hebrew University – Jerusalem), and Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University)   Michael Stone Festschrift Presentation and Address Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan), Lorenzo ...

We’re pleased to announce that the Enoch Seminar was approved as an affiliate of the Society of Biblical Literature. This is an important recognition of the work we have done over the years and presents an opportunity to expand our activities in connection with the American and International Meetings of the SBL, especially through our new Enoch Seminar Colloquia.