Milan 2011 – Papers

Public session at the Catholic University of Milan: End of Times: Fear or Hope

James H. Charlesworth – From Early Judaism to Today: Does the Concept of the End Elicit Fear or Hope?
Lawrence H. Schiffman – Catastrophe or Utopia: the End of Days in Rabbinic Literature

Session 1: 2Baruch/4Ezra and Apocalyptic Literature

Devorah Dimant – Qumran and Its Sequel: Jewish Apocalypses Composed in Hebrew
Gabriele Boccaccini – Who’s Afraid of Enochic Judaism? A Reading of 4 Ezra in Light of 1 Enoch and Paul

Session 2: 2Baruch/4Ezra and Apocalyptic Literature

John J. Collins – Enoch and Ezra
Pierluigi Piovanelli – Why Ezra and not Enoch? A Response to John J. Collins
Hindy Najman – Con-figuring 4Ezra

Session 3: A Close Reading of 2Baruch/4Ezra

Lutz Doering – The Letter of Baruch and its Role in 2 Baruch
Ezra’s Vision of the Lady: Form and Function of a Turning Point

Session 4: 2Baruch/4Ezra and Early Christian Literature

George W.E. Nickelsburg – A New Testament Reader’s Guide to 2 Baruch or a 2 Baruch Reader’s Guide to the New Testament
Adela Yarbro Collins – The Uses of Apocalyptic Eschatology

Session 5: 2Baruch/4Ezra and Rabbinic Literature

Daniel Boyarin – Judaism, the Director‘s Cut: Enoch, Ezra, and the Jewishness of ‘High Christology’
Steven D. Fraade – 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch with the (Dis-) Advantage of Rabbinic Hindsight

Session 6: The Nachleben of 2Baruch/4Ezra

Liv Ingeborg Lied – Nachleben and Textual Identity: Variants and Variance in the Reception History of 2 Baruch
Karina Martin Hogan – The Preservation of 4 Ezra in the Vulgate: Thanks to Ambrose, not Jerome

Special Session: Short Papers

Rivka Nir – What did the Christians find in the Letter of Baruch that attracted them?
Bilhah Nitzan – Apocalyptic Ideas in Fourth Ezra in Comparison with the Dead Sea Scrolls
Gerbern S. Oegema – 2 Baruch, the Messiah, and the Bar Kochba Revolt
Eugen Pentiuc – The Nature of the Resurrected Bodies in 2 Baruch and New Testament
Benjamin E. Reynolds – The Otherworldly Mediators in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch
Carlos Segovia – Which Theologies in Conflict?
Balazs Tamási – Baruch as a Prophet in 2 Baruch
Alexander Toepel – On a possible baptismal background of 4 Ezra 13:3-6
Mark Whitters – Ezra according to Second Baruch
Megan Williams – Parcere subiectis: Rome’s Universal Empire and Jewish Apocalyptic Theodicy in Romans, Revelation, and 4 Ezra
The Fate of Jerusalem in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: From Earth to Heaven and Back?
Daniel K. Falk – Penitence and Supplication in 4 Ezra
Jason M. Zurawski – The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14
Stephen Pfann – The Use of Cryptographic and Esoteric Scripts In Second Temple Judaism and the Surrounding Cultures
James H. Charlesworth – 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch Archaeology and Elusive Answers to Our Perennial Questions
Lorenzo DiTommaso – Who Is the ‘I’ of 4 Ezra?
Paul Mandel – Apocalypse and Scribe: Enoch, Baruch and Ezra and the Second-Temple „scribal‟ Tradition
Veronika Bachmann – Good Times, Bad Times and Their Imperatives – A Comparison Between 4 Ezra and the Book of the Watchers
Andreas Bedenbender – The Woman Who Anoints Jesus for his Burial (Mark 14) and the Woman Who Laments her Dead Son (4 Ezra 9–10) – Twice the Same Person?
Laura Bizzarro – The “meaning of history” in the 5th vision of the Book of 4Ezra
Calum Carmichael – Days of Creation in 2 Esdras 6:38-54 and John 1-5
Kindalee Pfremmer De Long – “Ask a Woman”: The Literary Motif of Childbearing in 4 Ezra
J. Harold Ellens – 4 Ezra: Apocalyptic as Delusion
Frances Flannery – Birthing Cities and Birthing Bodies
Eschatological Rewards for the Righteous in Second Baruch
William Loader – Sexual Issues in 2 Baruch
Jared Ludlow – Death and the Afterlife in 2 Baruch
Eric F. Mason – 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and the Epistle to the Hebrews: Three Approaches to Interpretation of Ps 104:4