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FIFTH ENOCH SEMINAR NANGERONI MEETING

Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts

30 June 4 July 2015

Naples, Italy

Universit degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Chairs Jason Zurawski, Gabriele Boccaccini, Luca Arcari

**All sessions from Tuesday to Friday will be held at the Department of Humanities at

the University of Naples, Federico II (Via Nuova Marina 33, room A6), around the corner

from Hotel Naples. Saturdays sessions will be at the medieval castle, Maschio Angioino.

**Breakfasts are at Hotel Naples (Corso Umberto I, 55)

**Lunches are catered at the University (Via Nuova Marina 33, 7th floor, aula 710)

**Dinners are held at the restaurant La Piazzetta (Via Nuova Marina 30)

TUESDAY, JUNE 30

Arrivals

17:00 -- Opening Session & Welcome

17:30-19:00 -- Session 1: EDUCATION IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

Steve Tinney, Education in Ancient Mesopotamian

Introduction: Steve Tinney (10 min.)

Response: William Schniedewind (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 70 min.

19:30 -- Dinner

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1

7:00-8:45 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:30 -- Session 2: EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ISRAEL

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William Schniedewind, Education in Ancient Israel and Judah into the Persian

Period

Introduction: William Schniedewind (10 min.)

Response: Steve Tinney (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 70 min.

10:30-11:00 -- Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 -- Session 3: SECOND TEMPLE PALESTINIAN EDUCATION I

Matthew Goff, Students of God in the House of Torah: Education in the Dead Sea

Scrolls

Introduction: Matthew Goff (10 min.)

Response: Francis Borchardt (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 70 min.

12:30 -- Lunch

14:30-16:00 -- Session 4: SECOND TEMPLE PALESTINIAN EDUCATION II

Frank Ueberschaer, Jewish Education in Ben Sira

Introduction: Frank Ueberschaer (10 min.)

Response: Greg Goering (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 70 min.

16:00-16:30 -- Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 -- Short Paper Session I

Group A -- Jewish Hellenistic Paideia

o Sean Adams, Philos Questions and the Adaptation of Greek Literary

Curriculum

o Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Dissolving the Philosophy Religion

Dichotomy in the Context of Hellenistic Jewish Paideia: Wisdom of Solomon,

Philo, and 4 Maccabees

Group B -- Proverbs and Paideia

o Greg Schmidt Goering, Tactile Discipline as Sapiential Paideia in the Book

of Proverbs

o Jacqueline Vayntrub, Mashal Performance and the Idea of Ancient Israelite

Education

19:30 -- Dinner

THURSDAY, JULY 2

7:00-8:45 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:30 -- Session 5: JEWISH HELLENISTIC PAIDEIA I

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Benjamin Wright, Greek Paideia and the Jewish Community of Alexandria in the

Letter of Aristeas

Introduction: Benjamin Wright (10 min.)

Response: Gabriele Boccaccini (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 70 min.

10:30-11:00 -- Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 -- Short Paper Session II

Group A -- Ben Sira and Paideia

o Samuel Adams, Reassessing the Exclusivism of Ben Sira's Jewish Paideia

o Elisa Uusimki, Wisdom as a Way of Life: The Formation of a Sage

according to Ben Sira

Group B -- Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Paideia

o Luca Arcari, The Testament of Orpheus, Aristobulus and the Derveni

Papyrus. Between didactic hymnography and exegetical activity

o Kathy Ehrensperger, Pauls Paideia and his Role as a Teacher of the Nations

in Christ

o Jason von Ehrenkrook, Christians, Pagans, and the Politics of Paideia in Late

Antiquity

12:30 -- Lunch

14:00 -- Afternoon trip to Pompeii (depart from Hotel Naples)

20:00 -- Dinner

FRIDAY, JULY 3

7:00-8:45 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:30 -- Session 6: JEWISH HELLENISTIC PAIDEIA II

Gregory Sterling, The School of Moses in Alexandria: An Attempt to Reconstruct

the School of Philo

Introduction: Gregory Sterling (10 min.)

Response: Sean Adams (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 60 min.

10:30-11:00 -- Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 -- Short paper session III

Group A -- Qumran and Paideia

o Francis Borchardt, The Temple Scroll in the Context of Hellenistic and

Graeco-Roman Scholarly Texts

o Jim Charlesworth, Educating the Sons of Light from the Hodayot Poetic

Visions of Suffering and Elevation: Imitating Luminaries

Group B -- Paideia and the Family

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o Patrick Pouchelle, Paternal Upbringing in the Pseudepigrapha

o Paolo Collini, A Reading of sublemma Education of Children from the

Volume 1. Famiglia of the CIMJ

o Brian Capper, Agrarian Society and the Call of Education: The Essenes,

Poverty and Socio-Economic Equilibrium in Early Roman Judaea

12:30 -- Lunch

14:00-17:00 -- Visit to the Archaeological Museum

17:30-19:00 -- Session 7: EARLY RABBINIC EDUCATION

Daniel Boyarin, Between RabbisAnd Other Jews: Some Martyr Tales

Introduction: Daniel Boyarin (10 min.)

Response: Anders Klostergaard Petersen (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion: 70 min.

19:30 -- Dinner

SATURDAY, JULY 4

7:00-8:45 -- Breakfast

9:00-11:30 -- Session 8: GREEK AND JEWISH PAIDEIA IN 4 MACCABEES (Maschio

Angioino)

David deSilva, The Author of 4 Maccabees and Greek Paideia: Facets of the

Formation of a Hellenistic Jewish Rhetor

Tessa Rajak, Promoted Paideia in 4 Maccabees

Introduction: David deSilva (10 min.)

Response: Tessa Rajak (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion (50 min.)

Pause (10 min.)

Introduction: Tessa Rajak (10 min.)

Response: David deSilva (10 min.)

Moderated Discussion (50 min.)

11:30-12:15 -- Closing thoughts. Future directions. (Maschio Angioino)

Departures