Enoch seminar
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The Enoch Seminar is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple
Second Temple
The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

 Judaism and Christian Origins
Origins of Christianity
For centuries, the traditional understanding has been that Judaism came before Christianity and that Christianity separated from Judaism some time after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE....

 who share information about their work in the field and biennially meet to discuss topics of common interest. Supported by the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 and the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, the group gathers about 200 university professors from more than fifteen countries.

The Enoch Seminar focuses on the period of Jewish history, culture and literature from the Babylonian Exile (6th cent. BC) to the Bar-Kochba revolt (2nd cent. AD) —the period in which both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism or Rabbinism has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Talmud...

 have their roots. It is a neutral forum where scholars who are specialized in different sub-fields (OT Apocrypha
Apocrypha
The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including "hidden", "esoteric", "spurious", "of questionable authenticity", ancient Chinese "revealed texts and objects" and "Christian texts that are not canonical"....

 and Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...

, Josephus
Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

, Philo
Philo
Philo , known also as Philo of Alexandria , Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher born in Alexandria....

, New Testament
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

) and are committed to different methodologies, have the opportunity to meet, talk and listen to one another without being bound to adhere to any sort of preliminary agreement or reach any sort of preordained consensus.

The Enoch Seminar was founded in 2000 by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan), who has chaired it ever since. Boccaccini is professor of Second Temple
Second Temple
The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

 Judaism and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan (USA) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Henoch
Journal Henoch
Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity is an academic journal established in 1979 by Paolo Sacchi that covers research on Second Temple Judaism in the period following the Babylonian exile, and the interactions between formative Judaism and formative...

. Vice-Directors are Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Durham, UK).

Participation at the meetings of the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is restricted to University professors and specialists in Second Temple
Second Temple
The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

 Judaism and Christian Origins
Origins of Christianity
For centuries, the traditional understanding has been that Judaism came before Christianity and that Christianity separated from Judaism some time after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE....

 who have completed their PhD. Papers circulate in advance among the participants and the entire time at the meetings is devoted to discussion in plenary sessions or small groups. Since 2006, to graduate students, PhD candidates and post-doctorate fellows, the Enoch Seminar has offered a separate biennial conference (the Enoch Graduate Seminar).

Veterans and leaders of the Enoch Seminar are Daniel Assefa (Ethiopia), Albert Baumgarten (Israel), Kelley Coblentz Bautch (USA), Andreas Bedenbender (Germany), Gabriele Boccaccini (USA), Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin is an historian of religion. Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. Trained as a Talmudic scholar, in 1990 he was appointed Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California,...

 (USA), James H. Charlesworth
James H. Charlesworth
James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

 (USA), Sabino Chialà (Italy), John J. Collins
John J. Collins
John J. Collins is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism & Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the sectarian works found in Dead Sea Scrolls and their relation to...

 (USA), Michael Daise (USA), Marcello Del Verme (Italy), Torleif Elgvin (Norway), Yaron Eliav (USA), Esther and Hanan Eshel (Israel), Florentino García Martínez (Belgium), Ida Fröhlich (Hungary), Claudio Gianotto (Italy), Charles A. Gieschen
Charles A. Gieschen
Charles A. Gieschen is Christian theologian who currently serves as Professor of Exegetical Theology and Chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His Ph.D...

 (USA), Lester L. Grabbe (England), Ithamar Gruenwald (Israel), Matthias Henze (USA), Martha Himmelfarb (USA), Michael Knibb (England), Klaus Koch (Germany), Robert Kraft (USA), Helge Kvanvig (Norway), Erik Larson (USA), Luca Mazzinghi (Italy), Hindy Najman (Canada), George W.E. Nickelsburg (USA), Andrei Orlov (USA), Pierluigi Piovanelli (Canada), Annette Yoshiko Reed (USA), Jacques van Ruiten (the Netherlands), Paolo Sacchi (Italy), Lawrence Schiffman
Lawrence Schiffman
Lawrence H. Schiffman was appointed as the Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies in early 2011. He had been the Chair of New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and serves as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman...

 (USA), Loren Stuckenbruck (England), Shemaryahu Talmon (Israel), Eibert Tigchelaar
Eibert Tigchelaar
Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar is a leading authority and author on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Formerly he held the position of research associate at the Qumran Instituut , Rijksuniversiteit Groningen , was appointed to a professorship at Florida State University, before becoming research...

 (USA), David Suter (USA), James Vanderkam (USA), Pieter Venter (South Africa), Ralph Williams (USA), Benjamin Wright (USA), and Adela Yarbro Collins
Adela Yarbro Collins
Adela Yarbro Collins is the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Mark and the Book of Revelation, and she has also written on early Christian apocalypticism and eschatology...

 (USA). Secretary of the group is J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens is a psychologist and theologian. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and was Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies International from 1974 to 1989.- Education:Ellens has received multiple educational...

 (USA).

The Enoch Seminar website, edited by Pierpaolo Bertalotto (PhD University of Bari, Italy), provides not only detailed information about the meetings of the Enoch Seminar (and of the Enoch Graduate Seminar) but also a general picture of the status of studies in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins and of the history of research in the field.

First Enoch Seminar (Florence 2001): “The Origins of Enochic Judaism”

The First Enoch Seminar was held in Florence, Italy (19–23 June 2001) at the Villa Corsi-Salviati of the University of Michigan at Sesto Fiorentino.

The conference was organized by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) in consultation with the other founding members of the Enoch Seminar. It explored the role of the early Enoch literature
Apocalyptic literature
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians....

 in the time prior to the Maccabean revolt and probed the hypothesis of the existence of “Enochic Judaism” as a distinctive form of Judaism in the early Second Temple
Second Temple
The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

 period.

In attendance were 35 scholars, from 8 countries.
  • Canada (Mark A. Elliott, Pierluigi Piovanelli)
  • Germany (Andreas Bedenbender, Klaus Koch)
  • Italy (Alessandro Catastini, Sabino Chialà, Claudio Gianotto, Luca Mazzinghi, Mauro Perani, Liliana Rosso Ubigli, [Paolo Sacchi])
  • Israel (Devorah Dimant, Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel, Ithamar Gruenwald, Sylvia Honigman)
  • the Netherlands (Florentino Garcia Martinez, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar)
  • Norway (Helge S. Kvanvig)
  • the United Kingdom (Michael A. Knibb, Loren T. Stuckenbruck)
  • the United States of America (Gabriele Boccaccini, Randy A. Argall, James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

    , John Collins
    John Collins
    - Arts :*John Churton Collins , English literary critic*John Collins , bass guitarist for Powderfinger*John Collins , of The New Pornographers and The Smugglers...

    , Michael Daise, Yaron Eliav, Martha Himmelfarb, George W.E. Nickelsburg, Stephen B. Reid, Brian Schmidt, David W. Suter, Ralph Williams, Benjamin G. Wright, Adela Yarbro Collins)


J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens is a psychologist and theologian. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and was Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies International from 1974 to 1989.- Education:Ellens has received multiple educational...

, James Waddell, and Adam Chalom of the University of Michigan served as secretaries of the conference.

The Proceeding were published in 2002 by Zamorani.

Second Enoch Seminar (Venice 2003): “Enoch and Qumran Origins”

The second Enoch Seminar was held in Venice, Italy (1–4 July 2003) at Palazzo Sullam.

The conference was organized by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA), in consultation with the other senior members of the Enoch Seminar. It focused on the role played by the Enoch literature in shaping the ideology and the practice of the Essene movement and the Qumran
Qumran
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank. It is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalia...

 community.

In attendance were 53 scholars from 10 countries:
  • Canada (Mark A. Elliott, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Annette Yoshiko Reed)
  • France (Emile Puech)
  • Germany (Matthias Albani, Andreas Bedenbender, Stefan Beyerle, Klaus Koch)
  • Hungary (Ida Fröhlich)
  • Israel (Albert I. Baumgarten, Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel, Ithamar Guenwald, Shemaryahu Talmon)
  • Italy (Piero Capelli, Sabino Chialà, Marcello Del Verme, Claudio Gianotto, Corrado Martone, Mauro Perani, Liliana Rosso Ubigli, Paolo Sacchi)
  • the Netherlands (Florentino Garcia Martinez, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Jacques van Ruiten)
  • Norway (Torleif Elgvin, Helge Kvanvig)
  • the United Kingdom (Philip R. Davies, James R. Davila
    James R. Davila
    James R. Davila is Professor of Early Jewish Studies and current Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews. A specialist in Second Temple Judaism and Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Davila is a Participant at the Enoch seminar and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal...

    , Lester L. Grabbe, Charlotte Hempel, Michael A. Knibb, Timothy H. Lim)
  • the United States (Jeff Anderson, Gabriele Boccaccini, James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

    , John J. Collins
    John J. Collins
    John J. Collins is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism & Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the sectarian works found in Dead Sea Scrolls and their relation to...

    , Michael Daise, Yaron Eliav, Matthias Henze, Martha Himmelfarb, Armin Lange, Erik W. Larson, George W.E. Nickelsburg, John C. Reeves, Henry W. Rietz, Lawrence H. Schiffman, David W. Suter, Patrick Tiller, James C. VanderKam, Megan Williams, Ralph Williams, Benjamin Wright)


J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens is a psychologist and theologian. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and was Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies International from 1974 to 1989.- Education:Ellens has received multiple educational...

, James Waddell, Ronald Ruark, Jason von Ehrenkrook, and Aaron Brunell of the University of Michigan served as secretaries of the Conference.

The Proceeding were published in 2005 by Eerdmans. An additional volume on the early Enoch literature was planned and published in 2007 by Brill Publishers
Brill Publishers
Brill is an international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes more than 134 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year...

.

The second Enoch Seminar at Venice was followed by a conference on Jewish and Christian messianism, Il Messia tra memoria e attesa, jointly organized with the Italian biblical association BIBLIA. The proceedings of the meeting were published in 2005 by Morcelliana.

Third Enoch Seminar (Camaldoli 2005): “Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables”

The Third Enoch Seminar was held at Camaldoli
Camaldoli
Camaldoli is a frazione of the comune of Poppi, in Tuscany, Italy. It is mostly known as the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order, originated in the eponymous hermitage, which can still be visited....

, Italy (6–10 June 2005) at the Foresteria of the Camaldoli
Camaldoli
Camaldoli is a frazione of the comune of Poppi, in Tuscany, Italy. It is mostly known as the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order, originated in the eponymous hermitage, which can still be visited....

 Monastery.

The conference was organized by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) in consultation with the other senior members of the Enoch Seminar. It focused on the ideology and date of the Parables of Enoch
Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work, traditionally ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel...

 as a Second Jewish document and on its message about the coming of the heavenly messiah "Son of Man
Son of man
The phrase son of man is a primarily Semitic idiom that originated in Ancient Mesopotamia, used to denote humanity or self. The phrase is also used in Judaism and Christianity. The phrase used in the Greek, translated as Son of man is ὁ υἱὸς τοὺ ἀνθρώπου...

."

In attendance were 43 scholars from 11 countries:
  • Canada (Pierluigi Piovanelli, Gerbern Oegema)
  • France (Daniel Assefa)
  • Germany (Andreas Bedenbender, Klaus Koch)
  • Hungary (Ida Fröhlich)
  • Israel (Jonathan Ben-Dov, Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel, Michael Stone)
  • Italy (Luca Arcari, Sabino Chialà, Giovanni Ibba, Luca Mazzinghi, Eric Noffke, [Paolo Sacchi])
  • the Netherlands (Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar)
  • Norway (Helge Kvanvig)
  • South Africa (Pieter M. Venter)
  • the United Kingdom (Lester L. Grabbe, Michael A. Knibb, Darrell D. Hannah, Loren Stuckenbruck)
  • the United States (William Adler, Kelley Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniele Boyarin, James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

    , John J. Collins
    John J. Collins
    John J. Collins is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism & Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the sectarian works found in Dead Sea Scrolls and their relation to...

    , Charles A. Gieschen
    Charles A. Gieschen
    Charles A. Gieschen is Christian theologian who currently serves as Professor of Exegetical Theology and Chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His Ph.D...

    , Matthias Henze, Robert Kraft, Phillip Munoa, Hindy Najman, George W.E. Nickelsburg, Daniel Olson, Andrei A. Orlov, David W. Suter, James C. VanderKam, Leslie Walck, Ralph Williams, Benjamin Wright, Adela Yarbro Collins)


J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens is a psychologist and theologian. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and was Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies International from 1974 to 1989.- Education:Ellens has received multiple educational...

, James Waddell, Ronald Ruark, Jason von Ehrenkrook, Aaron Brunell, and Justin Winger of the University of Michigan served as secretaries of the Conference.

The Proceeding were published in 2007 by Eerdmans.

Fourth Enoch Seminar (Camaldoli-Ravenna 2007): “Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees”

The Fourth Enoch Seminar was held at Camaldoli
Camaldoli
Camaldoli is a frazione of the comune of Poppi, in Tuscany, Italy. It is mostly known as the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order, originated in the eponymous hermitage, which can still be visited....

, Italy (8–12 July 2007) at the Foresteria of the Camaldoli
Camaldoli
Camaldoli is a frazione of the comune of Poppi, in Tuscany, Italy. It is mostly known as the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order, originated in the eponymous hermitage, which can still be visited....

 Monastery, with a final meeting in Ravenna hosted by the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus).

The Conference was organized by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) in consultation with the other senior members of the Enoch Seminar. It focused on the interaction between Mosaic and Enochic traditions in Second Temple
Second Temple
The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

 Judaism and on the synthesis between them in the Book of Jubilees.

In attendance were 84 scholars from 17 countries:
  • Australia (David Jackson, William Loader)
  • Canada (Pierluigi Piovanelli, Hindy Najman, Dorothy Peters, Stephane Saulnier, James Scott)
  • Denmark (Anders Klostergaard Petersen)
  • Ethiopia (Daniel Assefa)
  • Finland (Jutta Jokiranta)
  • France (Christophe Batsch, Katell Berthelot, Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra)
  • Germany (Andreas Bedenbender, Christoph Berner, Benjamin Wold)
  • Hungary (Ida Fröhlich, Karoly Dobos)
  • Israel (Albert Baumgarten, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Esther Chazon, Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel, Bilhah Nitzan, Stephen Pfann, Claire Pfann, Eyal Regev, Michael Segal, Aharon Shemesh, Shemaryahu Talmon)
  • Italy (Luca Arcari, Pierpaolo Bertalotto, Gianantonio Borgonovo, Marcello Del Verme, Claudio Gianotto, Giovanni Ibba, Luca Mazzinghi, Eric Noffke, Paolo Sacchi, Cristiana Tretti)
  • the Netherlands (Jacques van Ruiten)
  • Norway (Torleif Elgvin, Helge Kvanvig)
  • Poland (Henryk Drawnel)
  • South Africa (Pieter M. Venter)
  • the United Kingdom (Siam Bhayro, Lutz Doering, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Lester L. Grabbe, Grant Macaskill, Loren Stuckenbruck)
  • the United States (Betsy Halpern Amaru, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, John Bergsma, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock, Daniel Boyarin
    Daniel Boyarin
    Daniel Boyarin is an historian of religion. Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. Trained as a Talmudic scholar, in 1990 he was appointed Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California,...

    , James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

    , Calum Carmichael, Michael Daise, Gene Davenport, Michael Davis, John Endres, Daniel Falk, Charles A. Gieschen
    Charles A. Gieschen
    Charles A. Gieschen is Christian theologian who currently serves as Professor of Exegetical Theology and Chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His Ph.D...

    , William Gilders, Maxine Grossman, Matthias Henze, Martha Himmelfarb, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Robert Kraft, Erik Larson, George W.E. Nickelsburg, Daniel Olson, Andrei A. Orlov, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Lawrence Schiffman
    Lawrence Schiffman
    Lawrence H. Schiffman was appointed as the Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies in early 2011. He had been the Chair of New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and serves as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman...

    , David W. Suter, James C. VanderKam, Sam Thomas, Ralph Williams, Benjamin Wright, Azzan Yadin)
  • the Vatican (Joseph Sievers)


J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens
J. Harold Ellens is a psychologist and theologian. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and was Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies International from 1974 to 1989.- Education:Ellens has received multiple educational...

, Todd Hanneken (University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

), and Isaac Oliver (University of Michigan) served as secretaries of the Conference.

The Proceedings were published in 2009 by Eerdmans and by the Journal Henoch.

Fifth Enoch Seminar (Naples 2009): “Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch and Second Temple Judaism”

The Fifth Enoch Seminar was held in Naples, Italy (14–18 June 2009) at the Istituto Cangiani.

The meeting was organized by Andrei A. Orlov (University of Marquette, USA), in consultation with the Chair of the Enoch Seminar, Gabriele Boccaccini, and the other senior members of the group. It focused on the relationship between the characters of Enoch
Enoch (ancestor of Noah)
Enoch is a figure in the Generations of Adam. Enoch is described as Adam's greatx4 grandson , the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah...

, Adam, and Melchisedek as mediatorial figures in Second Temple
Second Temple
The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

 Judaism, with special emphasis on the Second Book of Enoch
Second Book of Enoch
The Second Book of Enoch is a pseudepigraphic of the Old Testament. It is usually considered to be part of the Apocalyptic literature. Late 1st century CE is the dating often preferred...

.

In attendance were 55 scholars from 16 countries:
  • Australia (Mariamne Dacy)
  • Bulgaria (Anissava Miltenova)
  • Canada (Pierluigi Piovanelli)
  • Ethiopia (Daniel Assefa)
  • France (Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra)
  • Germany (Andreas Bedenbender, Chrisfried Boettrich, Alexander Toepel)
  • Hungary (Ida Fröhlich)
  • Israel (Albert Baumgarten, Devorah Dimant, Rachel Elior
    Rachel Elior
    Rachel Elior is an Israeli professor of Jewish philosophy and mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.-Academic career:...

    , Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel, Alexander Kulik, Rivka Nir, Stephen Pfann, Michael Stone)
  • Italy (Luca Arcari, Claudio Gianotto, Lara Guglielmo, Luca Mazzinghi)
  • Netherlands (Joost L. Hagen, Johannes Tromp)
  • Poland (Henryk Drawnel)
  • Russia (Basil Lourie)
  • Spain (Liudmilla Navtanovich, Carlos Segovia)
  • Switzerland (Gabriella Gelardini)
  • the United Kingdom (Florentina Badanalova Geller, James Davila, Lutz Doering, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Lester L. Grabbe, Emmanouela Grypeou, Grant Macaskill)
  • the United States (Harold Attridge, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock, Daniel Boyarin
    Daniel Boyarin
    Daniel Boyarin is an historian of religion. Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. Trained as a Talmudic scholar, in 1990 he was appointed Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California,...

    , Silviu Bunta, Calum Carmichael, James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth
    James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

    , J. Harold Ellens
    J. Harold Ellens
    J. Harold Ellens is a psychologist and theologian. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and was Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies International from 1974 to 1989.- Education:Ellens has received multiple educational...

    , Steven Fraade, Charles A. Gieschen
    Charles A. Gieschen
    Charles A. Gieschen is Christian theologian who currently serves as Professor of Exegetical Theology and Chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His Ph.D...

    , Matthias Henze, John R. Levison, Jared Ludlow, Eric Mason, Andrei A. Orlov, Lawrence Schiffman
    Lawrence Schiffman
    Lawrence H. Schiffman was appointed as the Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies in early 2011. He had been the Chair of New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and serves as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman...

    , David W. Suter)


Anne Kreps, Isaac Oliver , James Waddell, and Jason Zurawski (University of Michigan) served as secretaries of the Conference.

The Proceedings will be published in 2011 by Eerdmans and by the Journal Henoch.

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