The entire Program : http://enochseminar.org/apocalypticism-2021
DAY 5: THURSDAY 27 MAY, 2021
9:00am-9:15am: Welcome (Loren Stuckenbruck)
9:15am-10:00am: Plenary Session with presentation by Karen King (“Early Christian Apocalypticizing”), with the chairs and speakers from the previous day, open to all participants. (Chair: Loren Stuckenbruck).
10:00am-11:00am: GROUP 7: “Early Islam”
Keynote Paper: David Cook (Rice Univ.), “Apocalypse and the Urbane in Sunni and Shi’ite Islam”
(30 mins., followed by open discussion)
11:00-11:30: ***Break***
11:30am-1:00pm: Breakout Sessions/Workshops
Session 22 (Grp 1, Sec 5): Zoom Room B
Chair: Matthias Henze (Rice Univ.)
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, “What have forty years revealed? Reflections on M. Smith’s ‘History of Apokalypto and Apokalypsis’” (15-17 mins.)
Respondent: Daniel Machiela (McMaster Univ.) (5-7 mins.)
Carol Newsom (Emory Univ.), “What’s in a Name? The Problem of Delineating the Object of Our Study” (15-17 mins.)
Respondent: Anders Klostergaard Petersen (Univ. of Aarhus) (5-7 mins.)
Open discussion (30 mins.)
Session 23 (Grp 4, Sec 6): Zoom Room C
Chair: James C. VanderKam
Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary), “Reading Paul as an Apocalyptic Thinker: Where Do We Go from Here?” (15-17 mins.)
Respondent: Ann Jervis (Wycliffe College) (5-7 mins.)
Matthew Goff (Florida State Univ.), “The Qumran Book of Giants and the Apocalyptic Tradition” (15-17 mins.)
Respondent: Laura Bizzarro (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Argentina) (5-7 mins.)
Open discussion (30 mins.)
Session 24 (Grp 7, Sec 2): Zoom Room D
Chair: David B. Cook (Rice Univ.)
Guillaume Dye (Université libre de Bruxelles), “Sura 18 and its rock’” (15-17 mins.)
Respondent: Andreas Kaplony (LMU Munich) (5-7 mins.)
Hadi Sabouhi (Univ. of California at Irvine), “The Son of the Slave-girl – The Maternal Ancestry of the Shī-ī Messianic Figure” (15-17 mins.)
Respondent: Kameliya Atanasova (Washington & Lee Univ.) (5-7 mins.)
Open discussion (30 mins.)
1:00pm-2:00pm: ***Break***
2:00pm-4:00pm: Final Wrap-up Session (Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini)
Panelists: Hindy Hajman, Jan Bremmer, Martti Nissinen, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Ra’anan Boustan, David Cook (10 mins each, plus discussion)
4:00pm-4:30pm: Conclusions (Loren Stuckenbruck)