Ann Arbor 2006 – Papers

Session 1: Enoch in Context

Todd R. Hanneken – Angels and Demons in the Book of Jubilees and Contemporary Apocalypses
David Kudan – Sabbath Worship in the Parables of Enoch (I Enoch 37-71)
Kristine Ruffatto – Polemics with Enochic Traditions in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian
Stephane Saulnier – The Moon in the Astronomical Book of Enoch: The 364-Day Calendar and the “Proper” Lunar Year – Identification of a Forgotten Connection?

Session 4: Enoch and the New Testament

Pierpaolo Bertalotto – The Superhuman Melchizedek: A Qumranic Response to the Enochic Son of Man
Chad Pierce – Reexamining Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits in Prison: Punishment Traditions in the Book of Watchers and their Influence on 1 Peter 3:18-22
Matteo Silvestrini – The «Pauperistic» Theology in the Gospel Luke’s Sources, Qumrân and 1Enoch
James Waddell – Adam, Enoch and Paul: Merging Intellectual Traditions of Early Christology

Sessions 2 & 3: Enoch and Qumran

Ariel Feldman – Mikra and Aggada in the Flood Story according to 4Q370
Dorothy Peters – The Tension Between Enoch and Noah in the Aramaic Enoch Texts at Qumran
Mladen Popovic – 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and the Cultural Locus of Physiognomics and Astrology in Second Temple Period Judaism
Kamilla Skarström – The Meaning of Ruah in 1QS 3:13-4:26
Hanne von Weissenberg – Covenantal Motives in 4QMMT
Ian Werrett – Multiple Meanings: The Myth of the Watchers in the Damascus Document