International Conference and Nangeroni Meeting
under the auspices of
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculté de théologie et de sciences des religions / Institut romand des sciences bibliques
(Université de Lausanne)
in collaboration with
Enoch Seminar: International Scholarship in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins
Supported by the European Research Council

Conference Committee: Alexander Kulik (chair), Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, Michael E. Stone

The meeting and the resultant volume will deal with problems of preservation, reception, and development of Jewish texts and traditions from the Second Temple period in diverse ecclesiastical traditions. The papers will present: (1) general up-to-date surveys of separate traditions (addressing, inter alia, recent developments in the state of research and perspectives for future research); (2) discussion of the destinies of specific texts and corpora among diverse traditions; (3) methodological issues (distinction between originally Jewish and Christian material, modes of medieval transmission and compilation, early Jewish texts and motifs in liturgy and iconography, etc.); and when possible, (4) innovations relevant for the topic. We plan to have panels on the following topics: Overview of linguistic traditions; Pseudepigrapha; Philo; Josephus; Minor Jewish Hellenistic authors; OT motifs in Christian pseudepigrapha; Qumran and Christian traditions; Comparative perspective: Preservation of Second Temple texts and traditions in Rabbinic, Islamic, and Manichaean transmission, and in late Judeo-Christian contacts (see the Contents below). The central purpose of discussing these diverse topics is to move towards mapping trajectories of early Jewish traditions among diverse cultures and to prepare a volume of introduction to the field.

We intend this conference to be the foundational meeting for a series of conferences, with subsequent meetings devoted to more specific topics.
The pre-circulating papers shall be presented briefly (5 min.) before being discussed by the participants. Every participant shall take responsibility for a response to at least one paper (5-10 min.). The papers (15-20 pages) should be submitted by March 1, 2014. This will allow respondents and other participants enough time to prepare their responses.