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

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

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