Enoch Seminar 2007

List of Participants

Program (July 4 - Final)

Submission Guidelines

Papers and Abstracts

Final: all abstracts and papers

All the papers have been combined into one file and given overall page numbers. Although there will undoubtedly be additions and corrections, these page numbers will not change before the seminar.

This does not include the program (above) or supplementary material (below).

Additions and revisions:
revision pp. 121-138, Doering, "Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees"
addition pp. 785-800, Schiffman, "The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scroll"
addition pp. 801-811, Pfann, "A Reassessment of Qumran’s Calendars"
addition pp. 813-831, Larson, "Worship in Jubilees"
revision pp. 1-33, Table of Contents and Abstracts, final revision 7/4/07 (pages 19-21 overlap in order to maintain the rest of the page numbers)
addition pp. 833-842, Tretti, "The Treasury of Heavenly Wisdom"

short papers are indented
papers are restricted by password to participants of the Seminar
please report problems to Todd Hanneken, Enoch Seminar Secretary
last updated 07/05/2007

The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
James VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, USA (email)

The Use of Jubilees in Medieval Chronicles to Supplement Enoch: The Case for the “Shorter” Reading (abstract | paper)
Siam Bhayro, University of Cambridge, England (email)

The Composition of the Book of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Michael Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (email)

Jubilees and the Earlier Enoch Literature (Book of the Watchers and Astronomical Book) (abstract | paper)
John Bergsma, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA (email)

Dating the Watchers: What’s at Stake? (abstract | paper)
Daniel Falk, University of Oregon (email)

Jubilees, Daniel, and Dream Visions (abstract | paper)
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA (email)

The Consolation of History (abstract | paper)
Karoly Dobos, Budapest Hungary (email)

Jubilees and the Apocalypse of Weeks (abstract | paper)
James Scott, Trinity Western University, Canada (email)

50 Jubilees and Beyond? Some Observations on the Chronological Structure of the Book of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Christoph Berner, University of Göttingen, Germany (email)

Jubilees, Aramaic Levi, and the Genesis Apocryphon (abstract | paper)
Esther Eshel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (email)

Some Notes on Scribal Craft and the Origins of the Enochic Literature (abstract | paper)
Henryk Drawnel, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (email)
The Treatment of the Element of Fire in Jubilees and 2 Enoch and its Afterlife in Christian Pseudepigraphy (abstract | paper)
Yuri Stoyanov, The Kenyon Institute, Israel (email)

Jubilees and the Temple Scroll (abstract | paper)
Lawrence Schiffman, New York University, USA (email)

Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition (abstract | paper)
Benjamin Wright, Lehigh University, USA (email)

Moses' Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian? (abstract | paper)
Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, USA (email)

The Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran (abstract | paper)
Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Crichton College, USA (email)

Jubilees and Samaritan Traditions (abstract | paper)
Lester Grabbe, University of Hull, UK (email)

The Myth of the Watchers and the Problem of Intermarriage in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Luca Arcari, University of Naples, Italy (email)

Enochic Judaism: A Judaism without the Torah and the Temple? (abstract | paper)
Helge Kvanvig, University of Oslo, Norway (email)

Priestly Purity, Mosaic Torah, and the Emergence of Enochic Judaism (abstract | paper)
Grant Macaskill, University of St Andrews, Scotland (email)

The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
William Gilders, Emory University, USA (email)

Jubilees’ Rapprochement of Enochic and Mosaic Traditions (abstract | paper)
Gianantonio Borgonovo, Northern Italy Theological Seminary, Italy (email)

From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakha (abstract | paper)
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA (email)

Noah Traditions in Jubilees: Evidence for the Struggle between Enochic and Mosaic Authority (abstract | paper)
Dorothy Peters, Trinity Western University, Canada (email)

Mosaic, Enochic (and Other) Traditions in Jubilees: The Case of Abraham (abstract | paper | unabridged)
Jacques Van Ruiten, University of Groeningen, Netherlands (email)

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity (abstract | paper)
Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Canada (email)

The Book of Jubilees – an Example of “Rewritten Torah”? (abstract | paper)
Andreas Bedenbender, Germany (email)

4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran (abstract | paper)
Ahron Shemesh, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (email)

The Integration of Law and Narrative in Jubilees: The Biblical Perspective (abstract | paper)
Calum Carmichael, Cornell University, USA (email)

Purity/Impurity in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Lutz Doering, King's College London, UK (email)

Jubilees and Sexual Transgression (abstract | paper)
William Loader, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australian Research Council (email)

Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Jonathan Ben-Dov, University of Haifa, Israel (email)

Time and Calendar in Jubilees and Enoch (abstract | paper)
Stephen Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel (email)

The Origin of Evil in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Loren Stuckenbruck, University of Durham, England (email)

The Penitential Prayer of Moses in Jubilees 1 and Its Relation to the Penitential Tradition of the Post-Exilic Judaism (abstract | paper)
Bilhah Nitzan, emeritus, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (email)

Pesah and Massot in The Book of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Betsy Halpern-Amaru, Emeritus, Vassar College, USA (email)

The Book of Watchers, Jubilees, and the Cycle of New Year Festivals (abstract | paper)
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, St. Mary’s London, England (email)
Jub 49:1-14 and the Second Passover: How (and Why) to Do Away With an Unwanted Festival (abstract | paper)
Stephane Saulnier, University of Notre Dame, USA (email)

The Eschatology of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
John Endres, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, USA (email)

Enoch, Elijah, and the (Eschatological) Torah (abstract | paper)
Sam Thomas, California Lutheran University, USA (email)

The Depiction of Women in the Book of Jubilees (abstract | paper | unabridged)
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward's University, USA (email)

Affective Masculinity: The Gender of the Patriarchs in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Maxine Grossman, University of Maryland, USA (email)

Angels, Demons, and the Dangerous Ones in Between: Reflections on Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in Jubilees (abstract | paper | unabridged)
Annette Reed, McMaster University, Canada (email)

Theology and Demonology in Jubilees and Enoch (abstract | paper)
Ida Fröhlich, Catholic University Budapest, Hungary (email)
The Evil Spirits in Jubilees and the Spirits of the Bastards in 4Q510, with Some Remarks on Others Qumran Manuscripts (abstract | paper)
Giovanni Ibba, University of Siena, Italy (email)

Worship in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Erik Larson, Florida International University, USA (email)

Ritual in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Michael Daise, College of William & Mary, USA (email)

Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism (abstract | paper)
Martha Himmelfarb, Princeton University, USA (email)

‘Scribal Divination’ in Jubilees and 3 Enoch (abstract | paper)
Daphna Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada (email)
Biblical Roots of Early Mystical Traditions on the Heavenly Temple (abstract | paper)
Torleif Elgvin, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Norway (email)

The Treasury of Heavenly Wisdom: Differing Modulations of the Concept From «1Enoch» and «Jubilees» to Medieval Jewish Mysticism (paper)
Cristiana Tretti

The Social and Political Setting of the Book of Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa, Canada (email)

Israel and the Nations in Jubilees (abstract | paper)
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada (email)

Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood (abstract | paper)
David Suter, St. Martin's University, USA (email)

Jubilees and Enochic Judaism (abstract | paper)
David R. Jackson, University of Sydney, Australia (email)

Jubilees, the Essenes, and Qumran (abstract | paper)
Eyal Regev, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (email)


Supplementary material

The Place of the Torah in the Early Enoch Literature (unpublished article)
Andreas Bedenbender, Dortmund, Germany (email)

“The Book of Jubilees” in Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998) pp. 86-98. (manuscript format)
Gabrielle Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA

“Interpretation as Primordial Writing: Jubilees and Its Authority Conferring Strategies.” JSJ 30 (1999), pp. 379-410. (publisher proof)
Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Canada

“Chapter 1: Mosaic Discourse” and “Chapter 2: Rewriting Rewritten: Jubilees and 11QTemple as Participants in Mosaic Discourse,” in Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism, (JSJSup 77; Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 1-69. (publisher proofs: chapter 1, chapter 2)
Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Canada

Enochic Wisdom and its Relationship to the Mosaic Torah (unpublished article)
George W. E. Nickelsburg, University of Iowa, USA

The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, from 1850 to 2006 (annotated)
Isaac Oliver, University of Michigan, USA (email)

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