We regret to share that EP Sanders has passed away. Ed Parish Sanders (1937-2022) was an American scholar. Professor emeritus at Duke University (Durham, NC). Born in Grand Prairie, Texas into a family of modest means. BA 1959 (Texas Wesleyan College). MA 1962 (Southern Methodist University). ThD 1966 (Union Theological Seminary). Studied modern Hebrew and Rabbinics in Israel. Professor at McMaster ...

April 25, 2018; John Meier (Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame) We regret to share John Meier, another pillar of Historical Jesus studies has passed away. John P. Meier (1942-2022) was an American scholar. He influenced a field of scholarship serving as a NT Professor at the University of Notre Dame, IN.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of James D. G. Dunn (26 June 2020), one of the world’s leading specialists in the New Testament. His studies on Paul, the development of early Jesus Movement and the “partings of ways” between Christianity and Judaism have contributed to shape the current conversation on these issues. I had the ...

Another great loss to our community. Our friend and colleague Larry Hurtado passed away on November 25, 2019. He will always be remembered for his groundbreaking scholarship and his kind collegiality. He was a close friend of the Enoch Seminar. He gave an outstanding contribution to our recent seminar and publication on the christology of the Gospel of John and ...

We were deeply saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Géza Xeravits passed away on September 27. Géza was a Hungarian scholar and one of the most important European specialists in Second Temple Judaism, known especially for his scholarship on Qumran and the OT Apocrypha. He led the rebirth of Biblical Studies in Hungary, making Budapest the center of many ...

It is with great sorrow that we announce that our dear friend and colleague Michael Bonner has passed away. The news came completely unexpected. Michael had joined with great enthusiasm our seminars in early Islamic Studies, becoming one of the leading voices in the group. We were expecting him in Italy in a few weeks to present a paper at ...

Our dearest friend J.Harold Ellens passed away on Friday, 13 April 2018. We are full of sadness. What a great loss of a most beloved friend! We shared together more than 25 years of common scholarly work. He was one of the founding members of the Enoch Seminar, serving as secretary for the first decade and then as President of ...

Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1926, Feldman earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Trinity College before receiving a doctoral degree in classical philology from Harvard University. He joined YU as an instructor in humanities and history in 1955, was appointed a full professor of classics in 1966 and subsequently was named the Abraham Wouk Professor of Classics and Literature. A ...

Joseph (Józef) Mélèze-Modrzejewski (1930-2017) was a Polish French scholar. He was born in Poland, where he also began his academic career. In 1958 he moved to France, where he taught for thirty years (until 1999) the legal and social history of the Hellenistic world at the Faculty of Law of Paris and at the Sorbonne. From 1979 to 2010, he ...

Giovanni Garbini (1931-2017), one of Italy’s greatest Orientalists, passed away on January 2 in Rome. A Professor at the University of Rome, he wrote extensively about the Ancient Near East and the History of Israel. A free, critical, non-conformist mind in his often-provocative, always-intriguing approach to ancient sources. We will miss him.