Welcome to Enoch Seminar Online International Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism.- Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic Origins
Schedule
*All presentations will be held in Casa Schwarz, 00186 Rome.
Sunday, 17 June
13:00 – 16:00 Registration at Casa Santa Lucia Filippini
Meet at 16:15 in the lobby of Casa Santa Lucia Filippini to walk together to Casa Schwarz
17:00 Welcome & Opening (Session 1)
Session Chair: Kathy Ehrensperger
Gabriele Boccaccini, “Women’s Contribution to Second Temple Jewish Studies: From Lucrezia Tornabuoni to the Present”
Shayna Sheinfeld, “Gender and Second Temple Judaism: Challenges & Possibilities”
Respondent: Matthew Anderson
20:00 Dinner
Address: La Tavernetta 48, Via degli Spagnoli 48
Participants, spouses, and children welcome
Monday, 18 June
09:00 – 10:45 Session 2
Session Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
A.-J. Levine, “Women Itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and Historical-Critical Approaches: Reevaluating the Consensus”
Respondent: William S. Campbell
11:15 – 13:00 Session 3
Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
Kathy Ehrensperger, “Paul, the Man: Enigmatic Images”
Respondent:
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Address: La Tavernetta 48, Via degli Spagnoli 48
Participants, spouses, and children welcome
14:30 – 16:15 Session 4 – Short Papers
Session 4.1
Session Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
Jessica Keady, “Masculinities and the Men of the Qumran Communities: Re-Evaluating the Ideals of Purification, Power and Performance in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Gerbern Oegema, “Female Authorship in Jewish Antiquity?”
Jacqueline Vayntrub, “The Three Tamars, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Recovery of a Botanical Motif”
Anna Cwikla, “Sight of a Woman: The Rape of Bilhah and Ancient Theories of Sin”
Session 4.2
Session Chair: Kathy Ehrensperger
Sara Parks, “Nixing the Niche: Moving Women from the Margins in Second Temple Jewish Scholarship”
Joshua Scott, “Gender and Paul’s Apocalyptic Communities: Gal 3:28 and 1 Cor 11:10 as Case Studies”
Sarah E.G. Fein, “From Pain to Redemption: 1 Timothy 2:15 in its Jewish Context”
16:45 – 18:30 Session 5
Session Chair: Francis Borchardt
Tal Ilan, “Pheroras’ Wife: A Pharisee Woman”
Respondent: Daniel Boyarin
20:00 Dinner on your own
Tuesday, 19 June
09:00 – 10:45 Session 6
Session Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
Betsy Halpern-Amaru, “The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees: Considerations and Reconsiderations”
Respondent: Gerbern Oegema
11:15 – 13:00 Session 7 – Short Papers
Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
Chontel Syfox, “Transcending Gender Limitations: Rebekah’s Usurpation of the Patriarchal Role in the Book of Jubilees”
Daniel Vorpahl, “The Reinforcement of Patriarchy and the (De)Construction of Gender Roles in Jubilees’ Reception of the Jacob-Esau-Narrative”
Moshe Taube, “Asher’s daughter and Nebuchadnezzar’s wife: two women who significantly affected Jewish History and made their way from Midrashic Literature into Russian Chronicles”
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Address: La Tavernetta 48, Via degli Spagnoli 48
Participants, spouses, and children welcome
16:00 – 19:00 Field Trip – Roman Marketplace
We will meet to walk to the Roman Forum together. Free of charge for participants, spouses, and children.
19:00 Dinner in the Jewish Ghetto
Address: La Taverna Del Ghetto, Via del Portico d’Ottavia 8
Walking from the Forum. Participants, spouses, and children welcome
Wednesday, 20 June
09:00 – 10:45 Session 8
Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Gendering Revealed Knowledge? Prophesy, Positionality, and Perspective in Jewish Apocalyptic and Related Literatures”
Respondent: Catherine Bonesho
11:15 – 13:00 Session 9 – Short Papers
Session 9.1
Session Chair: Jacqueline Vayntrub
Francis Borchardt, “The Framing of Female Knowledge in the Prologue of the Sibylline Oracles”
Hanna Tervanotko, “Women and Divination in the Jewish Texts of the Second Temple Era”
Gillian Glass, “Sense and Sensibility: Aseneth’s Epiphanies”
Session 9.2
Session Chair: Joshua Scott
Andrew Higginbotham, “Melek v’lo Malcha: A Proposed Herodian Background for Sifre Devarim 157”
Gabriella Gelardini, “Travesty in the 1st Jewish-Roman War”
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, “Dismantling the Judaism-Hellenism Binary in the Context of Judaic Notions of Gender and Sexuality during Late Second Temple Jewish Religion”
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Address: La Tavernetta 48, Via degli Spagnoli 48
Participants, spouses, and children welcome
14:30 – 17:00 Session 10
Session Chair: Kathy Ehrensperger
Adele Reinhartz, “Women and Gender in the Gospel of John.”
Respondent: Ekkehard W. Stegemann
18.00 Panel Discussion at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico, “Jewish Jesus Research and the Questions of Christology”
Address: Piazza della Pilotta 35
Followed by a drinks reception with vegetarian finger food
20:00 Dinner on your own
Thursday, 21 June
09:00 – 10:45 Session 11
Session Chair: Shayna Sheinfeld
Angela Standhardtinger, “Female Officiants in Second Temple Judaism.”
Respondent: Meredith J.C. Warren
11:15 – 12:00 Session 12 – Closing Thoughts
Session Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Kathy Ehrensperger, and Shayna Sheinfeld
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Address: La Tavernetta 48, Via degli Spagnoli 48
Participants, spouses, and children welcome
(UPDATED!!!) 13.30 & 14:30 Optional Field Trip: Jewish Catacombs
Limited Availability, €20 p.p. for transportation and entry donation
Refreshments during the conference sessions are kindly provided by Prof. Schwarz.