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