schedule (Ann Arbor 2006)
TUESDAY MAY 2, 2006
12:00pm Meeting at 3050 Frieze Bldg
12:15-1:15pm Lunch with all participants (Silvio’s)
1 Enoch in Context (1:30-5:30) [3050 Frieze]
- The Moon in the Astronomical Book of Enoch: the 364-day Calendar and the “Proper” Lunar Year – Identification of a Forgotten Connection?[Stéphane Saulnier]
- Sabbath Worship in Parables of Enoch[David Kudan]
- Polemics with Enochic Traditions in the Exagogue of Ezekiel the Tragedian[Kristine Ruffatto]
- Angels and Demons in the Book of Jubilees and Contemporary Apocalypses[Todd Hanneken]
5:30/8:00pm Accommodation and Dinner (free)
8:00-9:30pmKeynote Address by Prof. James VanderKam
The Aramaic Astronomical Book and the Ethiopic Book of the Luminaries
WEDNESDAY MAY 3, 2006
Enoch and Qumran I (9:00-11:00) [3050 Frieze]
- Covenantal Motives in 4QMMT[Hanne von Weissenberg]
- Noah at Qumran: Supplantor or Legitimate Successor of Enoch? (Gen. Apocryphon)[Dorothy M. Peters]
11:30-12:45 Visit to the U-M Papyrology Lab (8th floor Hatcher Graduate Library) with Prof. Traianos Gagos
1:00-2:00 Lunch (Silvio’s)
Enoch and Qumran II (2:15-6:15) [3050 Frieze]
- The Watchers and the Princes: The Concept of Kilayim in the Damascus Document[Ian Werrett]
- Ruah in OT, 1 Enoch, and Qumran (1QS)[Kamilla Skarstrom]
- Mikra and Haggada in 4Q370 (Admonition Based on the Flood)[Ariel Feldman]
- 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and the Cultural Locus of Physiognomics and Astrology in Second Temple Period Judaism[Mladen Popovic]
Party with NES Graduate Students
THURSDAY MAY 4, 2006
Enoch and the New Testament (8:30-12:30) [3050 Frieze]
- The ‘Pauperistic’ Theology in the Luke Gospel’s Sources, Qumran, and 1 Enoch [Matteo Silvestrini]
- The Book of Watchers and Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits in Prison[Chad Pierce]
- The Superhuman Melchizedek: A Qumranic Response to the Enochic Son of Man [Pierpaolo Bertalotto]
- The Enochic ‘Son of Man’ and the Pauline ΚΥΡΙΟS: Merging Intellectual Traditions of Early Christology [James Waddell]
12:45-1:45pm Lunch (Silvio’s)
