naples 2009 – papers

Session 1: The Text of 2 Enoch

Christfried Böttrich – The “Book of the Secrets of Enoch” (2En) Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview
Grant Macaskill – 2 Enoch: Manuscripts, Recensions and Original Language
Andrei A. Orlov – The Sacerdotal Traditions of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch and the Date of the Text

Session 2: Enoch’s Roles and Titles in Early Enochic Booklets and 2 Enoch

Andrei A. Orlov – Enoch’s Roles and Titles in Early Enochic Booklets and 2 Enoch
Rachel Elior – 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch
Carlos Segovia – Noah as Eschatological Mediator Transposed: From 2 Enoch 71-72 to the Christological Echoes of 1 Enoch 106:2-3 in the Qur’an

Session 3: The Content of 2 Enoch

Gabriele Boccaccini – Sapiential, Apocalyptic, and ‘Enochic’ Elements in 2 Enoch
Basil Lourié – Calendrical Elements in 2 Enoch
Lawrence H. Schiffman – Halakhic Elements in 2 Enoch

Session 4: The Adamic Tradition

John R. Levison – Adamic Traditions in Early Judaism (Qumran, 1 Enoch, Sirach, Philo, Jubilees, Josephus, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch)
Johannes Tromp – Adamic Traditions in Early Judaism and Christianity (Books of Adam and Eve)
Alexander Toepel – Adamic Traditions in Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature (from NT to the Cave of Treasures)

Session 5: The Melchizedek Tradition

Eric Mason – Melchizedek at Qumran and Early Judaism
Harold Attridge – Melchizedek in Hebrews and the New Testament
Pierluigi Piovanelli – Melchizedek in Early Christian literature

Session 6: Interactions: Enoch, Adam, and Melchizedek

Crispin Fletcher-Louis – 2 Enoch and the New Perspective on Apocalyptic
Charles Gieschen – Enoch andMelchizedek
Daphna Arbel – Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, and Eve

Special Session: Short Papers

Bilhah Nitzan – The Angelic Songs in the Slavonic Enoch in Relation to their Ancient Traditions
Andrei A. Orlov – The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
Silviu Bunta – In the Image of Adam: Anthropomorphic Angels in the Shorter Recension of the Life of Adam and Eve (Slavonic and Romanian)
Emmanouela Grypeou – The Figure of Melchizedek in the Context of Exegetical Encounters between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Rivka Nir – Elijah as the forerunner of the Messiah in 1 Enoch 90: 31-38
Stephen Pfann – Abducted by God? The Process of Heavenly Ascent in Jewish Tradition, from Enoch to St. Paul, From St. Paul to Akiva
Luca Arcari – 2Enoch and the Messianic Son of Man. A Triangular Reading between the Book of Parables of Enoch, the Testament of Abraham and 2Enoch
Marianne Dacy – The Fallen Angels in Enoch Reconsidered
J. Harold Ellens – The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Son of Man: An Assessment of 11Q13(Mel)
Ida Fröhlich – The Figures of the Watchers in the Enochic Tradition (1-3 Enoch)
Lara Guglielmo – 11Q13, Malchî Ṣedek, Co-reference and Restoration of ii 18
Basil Lourié – A Hapax Legomenon PROMETAYA and the Date of 2 Enoch
Anissava Miltenova – Book of Adam and Eve and the Apocryphal Cycle about the Holy Tree
Florentina Badalanova Geller – Creation of Adam in Second Enoch and other Slavonic Aprocrypha