<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, ...

The 153rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) will be held in Boston, MA (Nov 18-21, 2o17). The Meeting will be preceded by the 1st Enoch Colloquium (Nov 16-17) at Harvard University on: “The Sense(s) of History: Ancient Apocalypses and Their Temporalities.” The 6th Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL will be held on Sat 18 evening. ...

The Conference is organized by Free University of Berlin.

Programme Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World Sunday 8 December Venue: Assen, Drents Museum 13.00 visit the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition made by the Qumran Institute, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Drents Museum; short introduction by Mladen Popović 15.20 Statenzaal, Drents Museum, opening of the symposium and welcome by Annabelle Birnie, director of the ...

Call for Papers and Symposium Information 2-3 June 2014 John Anthony Dunne and I are proud to introduce the theme for the 2014 St Andrews Symposium for Biblical and Early Christian Studies to take place 2-3 June 2014. Ancient Readers & Their Scriptures: The Texts, Reading Strategies, and the Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple and Early Judaism ...

A Nangeroni Meeting will be held in Naples, Italy in conjunction with the University of Naples, Italy (June 2015), on “Education in the Ancient Near East and the Emergence of Hellenistic Jewish Paideia”.

The 63rd Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense on “The Books of Samuel” will be held in Leuven, Belgium (July 30 – August 1, 2014).

The 48th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense on “Studies in the Book of Genesis” was held in Leuven, Belgium (July 28-30, 1999).