JUDAISM  AND  CHRISTIANITY   IN  THE  
GRAECO-ROMAN  WORLD  (JCGRW):

From Second Temple to Late Antiquity

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The University of Michigan - Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Gabriele Boccaccini, Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins (Ph.D. University of Turin, Judaic Studies, 1991) is a specialist in the intellectual history of ancient Judaisms. His work focuses on the diversity of post-exilic groups such as Zadokites and Enochians and later Sadducees, Essenes, Pharisees, Jesus' followers, and Hellenistic Jews, whose struggle and competition laid the foundations for the parallel origins of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. He is the founder and director of the Enoch Seminar the editor in chief of The Journal Henoch, and the editor of The Origins of Enochic Judaism (Zamorani, 2002), Enoch and Qumran Origins (Eerdmans, 2004), and The Early Enoch Literature (Brill, forthcoming). Among his publications: Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought, 300 BCE to 200 CE (Fortress, 1991), Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts (Zamorani, 1993), Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (Eerdmans, 1998), Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: from Ezekiel to Daniel (Eerdmans, 2002), and Rabbinic Origins: from Daniel to the Mishnah (Eerdmans, forthcoming). Boccaccini is also the editor of Enoch and Qumran Origins (Eerdmans, 2005), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (Eerdmans, 2007), The Early Enoch Literature (Brill 2007, with John J. Collins), and Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (Eerdmans, forthcoming).
gbocca@umich.edu
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Yaron Eliav, Frankel Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Late Antique Jewish History (PhD. Hebrew University, Jewish History and Archaeology, 1999), draws on talmudic, early Christian, and classic literatures, as well as on archaeology in order to study the multi-faceted cultural environment of Roman Palestine with emphasis on the encounter between Jews and Graeco-Roman culture. His book, God's Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Space, and Memory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005; http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/3439.html, won two national awards: The 2005 American Association of Publishers (AAP) award for best scholarly book on religion, and the 2006 Salo Baron prize for best first book in Judaic Studies from the American Academy for Jewish Studies. Eliav is the co-director of the Statuary Project, an interdisciplinary, multi-year research endeavor that takes place at the University of Michigan, and he is the chief editor of the publication of this project that is scheduled to appear in 2008 in the series Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion (Peeters). Eliav is also working on his new book, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Daily Life Encounters with Hellenism in Roman Palestine, and will head a research group on Jewish Material Culture at the newly established Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies,
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic/html/frankel_institute_3_0.htm.
yzeliav@umich.edu
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