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News From the Enoch Seminar

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The Enoch Seminar has been a flurry of activity. Preparations for the First Nangeroni Meeting this summer in Milan are in full swing. The Enoch Graduate Seminar, taking place this summer at Notre Dame, has had a tremendous response. The Online Encyclopedia is constantly growing (www.4enoch.org). And, the preliminary organization of the Seventh Enoch Seminar next summer is moving along nicely.

We are now also very pleased to announce the launch of the new online home of the Enoch Seminar: www.enochseminar.org. The new website will feature a number of exciting features and will be a vast wealth of knowledge related to all things Enoch Seminar and all things Second Temple Judaism. But, only current, registered members of the Enoch Seminar will have total access to all of the features of the site. Registered members will have access to all of the (pre-publication) seminar papers, including the papers from last summer’s wildly successful Sixth Enoch Seminar, and the papers for the upcoming First Nangeroni Meeting.

Your membership to the Enoch Seminar is vital to the continued success and growth of our collaborative organization, and the cost to maintain your annual membership is very inexpensive relative to the benefits it provides. The annual dues to become part of the preeminent organization in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins is only $50 per year. Please visit http://www.enochseminar.org to create your account as a full member of the Enoch Seminar, and have unfettered access to the seminar papers.

**Note: If you attended the 6th Enoch Seminar in Milan, you membership dues were included in your registration fee, and your membership will be active until June, 2012. All you need to do is sign up on the website.

**Note: If you are attending the 1st Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, you membership dues are included in your registration fee, and your membership will be active until December, 2012. All you need to do is sign up on the website.

Please, if you have any comments or concerns, or any suggestions as to how we may improve on the site or new features we could add, let us know. We value your input.

Best Wishes,

Jason

1st Enoch Seminar, Nangeroni Meeting

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From Jason Zurawski-

Dear Colleagues, Members, and Friends of the Enoch Seminar,

We are happy to announce the launch of a new series of small seminars (maximum 35 participants) in addition to the traditional Enoch Seminars. Thanks to the generous contribution of the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment, we are able to host these meetings at the beautiful Villa Cagnola in Gazzada, Milan, Italy, where the last Enoch Seminar was so successfully held.

Professor Lester Grabbe has graciously agreed to chair this first Nangeroni Meeting toward the end of June 2012 (June 25-28), with the theme: “The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview”.  (See the attached information sheet for details)

The aim of the 2012 conference is to give a historical and sociological analysis of apocalyptic literature and perspective during the Seleucid and Hasmonean periods (c. 200-63 BCE).  As usual, all papers will circulate in advance and will not be read by the writers. The time given will be devoted primarily to discussion.  The main speakers at this moment, in addition to the chairs Lester Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, include Pierluigi Piovanelli, Philip Davies, Anathea Portier-Young, and we hope Michael Stone, while Erich Gruen has agreed to be an overall respondent.

As these meetings are strictly limited to a maximum of 35 participants (including speakers), we invite all who are interested to contact the chair Professor Lester Grabbe (L.L.Grabbe@hull.ac.uk) and the secretary Jason Zurawski (jasonzur@umich.edu) as soon as possible, at the latest by December 15, 2011.

As usual for the Enoch Seminar, we also invite people to submit short papers related to the theme. 6 of the papers will be presented in 2 dedicated sessions at the conference.

As with the regular Enoch Seminars, expenses will be subsidized for speakers and all participants, on a sliding scale as indicated in the attached information sheet.  The proceedings of the conference will be published in a special volume of the Journal Henoch.

We are looking forward to hearing from many of you.

With best wishes,

Lester Grabbe (L.L.Grabbe@hull.ac.uk)

Gabriele Boccaccini (gbocca@umich.edu)

Jason Zurawski (jasonzur@umich.edu)

http://www.4enoch.org/wiki2/index.php?title=Nangeroni_Meetings

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