ENOCH CONFERENCE 17-19 DECEMBER 2013 TOPOI HAUS DAHLEM 17.2.2013 10:00 – 10:10 Rainer Kampling and Michael Meier (Berlin) Welcome 10:10 – 10:30 Gerd Graßhoff (Berlin) Opening Remarks 10:30 – 11:30 Michael Stone (Jerusalem) Where Does Enoch Receive Revelations? 12:00 – 13:00 Peter Schäfer (Princeton / Berlin) Did Enoch Die? A Tradition History of Genesis 5:21-24 14:30 – 15:15 Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley) The Cosmic Geography of the Talmud and the Persistence of Enoch 15:15-16:00 Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven) Space and Time in the Topographies of the Enochic Book of Parables 16:30 – 17:15 Andrei Orlov (Marquette) Primordial Aon Adoil in 2 Enoch 17:15 – 18:00 Ida Fröhlich (Budapest) The Construction of the Time and Space in the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) 18:15 – 19:30 Florentina Geller (Berlin) Joint Event with Dahlem Seminars for the History of Science in Antiquity: Heavenly Matters: Celestial Architecture and Planetary Order in 2 Enoch 18.12.2013 10:00 – 10:45 Philip Alexander (Manchester) The Cosmology of 3 Enoch 10:45 – 11:30 Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton) “Come and I Will Show You”: The Cosmis Geography of 3 Enoch 12:00 – 12:45 William Adler (North Carlolina) The Book of Enoch in the Christian Universal Chronicle: Interpretation and Textual History 14:15 – 15:00 Gabriele Boccaccini (Michigan) From the Unforgiving Enoch to the Forgiving Son of Man: Developments of Thought from Enochic Judaism to Christianity 15:00 – 15:45 Christfried Böttrich (Greifswald) The Angel of Tartarus and the Supposed Coptic Fragments of 2 Enoch 16:15 – 17:00 Gebhard Selz (Wien) The Great Scribe, the Demons and Astral Deities, Near Eastern Aspects of Enochic Traditions 17:00 – 17:45 Cale Johnson (Berlin) Interior Geographies in Sumerian Mythology and their Enochic Ramifications 17:45 – 18:30 Ammar Annus (Estonia / Berlin) The Story of Watchers as Counter Narrative 19.12.2013 10:00 – 10:45 Lucia Reggatti (Berlin) Enoch / Idris as Physician and Promethean Scientist in the Arabic Sources 10:45 – 11:30 Pavel Pavlovitch (Sofia / Berlin) A Babylonian Encounter with the Fallen Angels: Apropos the Origins of the Islamic Story about Hārūt and Mārūt 12:00 – 12:45 Siam Bhayro (Exeter) On the Near Eastern background of the cosmogony of 1 Enoch 18: Babylonian or Iranian? 14:00 – 16:00 Stefanie Rudolf (Berlin) "The seas where dragons are born or the Syriac tradition of Enoch" Joost Hagen (Leipzig) 2 Enoch in Coptic: Towards an editio princeps of the text Dirk Hartwig (St. Andrews) Man of Truth and Exalted Prophet: Enoch in the Muslim Tradition Iva Trifonova (Sofia / Berlin) The Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch – textual peculiarities and verbal catches 16:00 – 16:30 Christoph Markschies (Berlin) Concluding Remarks