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 ...

The Enoch Seminar is pleased to announce that the sixth annual reception will take place on Saturday 18 November, during the 2017 SBL meeting in Boston. This year’s reception will include a panel to conclude the Enoch Seminar Colloquia at Harvard, a Festschrift presentation for Michael Stone, and a brief reception program. The event is scheduled from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm in the Essex ...

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.

The Sense(s) of History: Ancient Apocalypses and Their Temporalities This colloquium, organized in collaboration between the Enoch Seminar and Harvard Divinity School, aims to explore the varying historicities and temporalities present in ancient apocalyptic literature as a means to enhance our understanding of its historical and religious significance in terms of ontologies, epistemologies, and socio-political imaginations. To achieve this goal ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls Seventy Years Later: Manuscripts, Traditions, Interpretations, and Their Biblical Context John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland October 25, 2017 – October 26, 2017 Seventy years have passed since the first surviving Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period were discovered. Their contents, gradually made accessible to the scholarly world, have altered many long-established opinions ...

Gabriele Boccaccini opened the SBL Midwest Regional Conference (Notre Dame) with a talk on the forgiveness of sins in Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels. The presentation was based on Boccaccini’s research published in Gabriele Boccaccini and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, eds., Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality. Early Judaism and Its Literature. SBL Press, 2016.

Congratulations, John! The Enoch Seminar would not have become what it is today without your contribution. John Collins received his third Festschrift at the Yale University reception during the 2016 SBL Annual Meeting.  

Around 100 colleagues attended the 5th Enoch Reception at the SBL Meeting in San Antonio. With Vice-Directors Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Loren Stuckenbruck were Isaac Oliver de Oliveira, Jim Davila, Robert Kraft, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Pierluigi Piovanelli, James McGrath, Anders Petersen, Matthias Henze, Ida Froehlich, Mark Nanos, Liv Lied, Timothy Sailors, William Campbell, Kathy Ehrensperger, Jonathan Kaplan, William Schniedewind, Charles Gieschen, Ben ...

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).