EDUCATION Ph.D., Princeton University, Department of Religion, 2002 Religions of Late Antiquity Program and the Program in the Ancient World Dissertation: "What the Fallen Angels Taught: The Reception-History of the Book of the Watchers in Judaism and Christianity (Advisor: Martha Himmelfarb; Readers: John G. Gager and Peter Schaefer) M.A., Princeton University, Department of Religion, 2001 Religions of Late Antiquity Program and the Program in the Ancient World General Examinations: New Testament and Early Christianity with John G. Gager (Religion), Ancient Judaism with Martha Himmelfarb (Religion), Rabbinic and Post-Rabbinic Midrash with Peter Schäfer (Religion and Jewish Studies), Graeco-Roman Historiography with Fritz Graf (Classics) M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, 1999 Area I: Scripture and Interpretation B.A. with First Class Honours, McGill University, 1997 Faculty of Religious Studies, Western Concentration LANGUAGES Ancient: Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Geez (Ethiopic), Latin, Syriac Modern: English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese PUBLICATIONS See also Articles and Papers On-line Books Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2005 [Click here for more information] Editor, with Ra'anan S. Boustan, Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) [Click here for more information] Editor, with Adam H. Becker, The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 95; Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003; forthcoming in paperback with Fortress Press) [Click here for more information] Peer-Reviewed Articles "Abraham as Chaldean Scientist and Father of the Jews: Josephus, Ant. 1.154 168, and the Greco-Roman Discourse about Astronomy/Astrology," Journal for the Study of Judaism 35.2 (2004): 119-158. [PDF from Ingenta] "The Trickery of the Fallen Angels and the Demonic Mimesis of the Divine: Aetiology, Demonology, and Polemics in the Writings of Justin Martyr," Journal of Early Christian Studies 12.2 (2004): 141-71. [PDF from Project Muse] "EUAGGELLION: Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth in Irenaeus Adversus haereses," Vigiliae Christianae 56/1 (2002): 11-46. [PDF or RealPage from Catchword] "From Asael and Semihazah to Uzzah, Azzah, and Azael: 3 Enoch 5 ( 7-8) and Jewish Reception-History of 1 Enoch," Jewish Studies Quarterly 8 (2001): 105-136. "Job as Jobab: The Interpretation of Job in LXX Job 42:17b-e," Journal of Biblical Literature 120:1 (2001): 31-55. [PDF from SBL site] Articles in Collected Volumes "Rabbis, Jewish Christians and other late antique Jews: Reflections on the fate of Judaism(s) after 70 C.E.," in The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity, ed. I. Henderson and G. Oegama, Jewish Writings from the Greco-Roman Period, Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 2006, pp. 323-48. "Interrogating Enochic Judaism : 1 Enoch as Evidence for Intellectual History, Social Reality, and Literary Tradition," in Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, ed. G. Boccaccini with J. H. Ellens and J. Waddell, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2005, pp. 336-44. "'Revealed Literature' in the Second Century B.C.E.: Jubilees, 1 Enoch, Qumran, and the (Pre)History of the Biblical Canon," in Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, ed. G. Boccaccini with J. H. Ellens and J. Waddell, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2005, pp. 94-98. "Introduction" (with Ra'anan Boustan) in Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). [Excerpt] "Heavenly Ascent, Angelic Descent, and the Transmission of Knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16" in Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). "Introduction: Traditional Models and New Directions" (with Adam H. Becker) in The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. A. H. Becker and A. Y. Reed (TSAJ 95; Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), pp. 1-33. "'Jewish Christianity after the Parting of the Ways : Approaches to Historiography and Self-Definition in the Pseudo-Clementine Literature," in The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. A. H. Becker and A. Y. Reed (TSAJ 95; Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), pp. 188-231. Forthcoming Articles “Was there Science in Ancient Judaism? Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Science,” forthcoming in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. “Blessing the Serpent and Treading on its Head: Marian Typology in the San Marco Creation Cupola,” forthcoming in Gesta. “Reading Augustine and/as Midrash,” in Midrash and Context, eds. L. Teugels and R. Ulmer, Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, forthcoming, pp. 75-131. “Heresiology and the (Jewish-)Christian Novel: Narrativized Polemics in the Pseudo-Clementines,” Heresy and Self-Definition in Late Antiquity, ed. E. Iricinschi and H. Zellentin, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming. “From Judaism and Hellenism to Christianity and Paganism: Cultural Identities and Religious Polemics in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” forthcoming in Actes du colloque sur la littérature apocryphe chrétienne, Le roman pseudo-clémentin. “Pseudepigraphy, Authorship and the Reception of 'the Bible' in Late Antiquity,” in The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity. Proceedings of the Montréal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006, ed. L. DiTommaso and L. Turcescu (The Bible in Ancient Christianity; Leiden: E.J. Brill, forthcoming). “‘Jewish-Christian’ Apocrypha and the History of Jewish/Christian Relations,” forthcoming in the proceedings of "Christian Apocryphal Texts for the New Millennium: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges" Reviews & Review Essay Review of Nicole Kelley, Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines: Situating the 'Recognitions' in Fourth Century Syria (Mohr Siebeck, 2006) forthcoming in Journal for the Study of Judaism. Review of Esther G. Chazon, David Satran and Ruth A. Clements, eds., Things Revealed: Studies In Early Jewish And Christian Literature In Honor Of Michael E. Stone (Brill, 2004) forthcoming in Journal for the Study of Judaism. Review of Daniel Olson, Enoch: A New Translation (Bibal 2004), forthcoming in Catholic Biblical Quarterly "The Textual Identity, Literary History, and Social Setting of 1 Enoch: Reflections on George Nickelsburg's Commentary on 1 Enoch 1-36; 81-108," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 5/1 (2003): 279-96. [Review Essay on George Nickelsburg, 1 Enoch I: A Commentary on the Book of Enoch, Chapters 1-36, 81-108 (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001)] Review of Betsy Halpern-Amaru, The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees (Leiden: Brill, 1999), Jewish Quarterly Review 92 (2002): 40-44. Review of J. Edward Wright, The Early History of Heaven (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), Koinonia 8/2 (2001): 64-65. Encyclopedia Entries Entries on “Testament of Job” and “Jewish Christianity” for New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Nashville: Abingdon Press, forthcoming. Entries on “Asaph ha-Rofe,” “Mar Samuel,” and “Rufinus” for Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, Oxford: Routledge, forthcoming. "Vision/Visionsbericht: III. Antikes Judentum," in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. "Christian Origins as Jewish History" [Hebrew] in A New Jewish Time - Jewish Culture in a Secular Age - An Encyclopedic View, Keter Publishing House, 2007. Illustration Figure 1: Sketch of Wall Painting, Yılanlı Kilise, Cappadocia, in Peter Schäfer, Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Kabbala (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 180. PAPERS PRESENTED Upcoming Presentations "Fallen Angels and Evil Spirits in Jubilees," Fourth Enoch Seminar, Camaldoli, Italy, July 2007 Conference Papers and Lectures “Between ‘Biblical’ and ‘Parabiblical’: Pre-canonical Perspectives on Writing, Reading, and Revelation,” Rethinking the Concept and Categories of 'Bible' in Antiquity, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2006. “Beyond Revealed Wisdom and Apocalyptic Epistemology: The Redeployment of Enochic Traditions about Knowledge in Early Christianity,” Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2006. [PDF from SBL site] “Pseudepigraphy, Authority, and Biblical Interpretation,” The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity, Concordia University, October 2006. “New Light on ‘Jewish-Christian’ Apocrypha and the History of Jewish/Christian Relations,” Christian Apocryphal Texts for the New Millennium: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges, University of Ottawa, September 2006. “From Judaism vs. Hellenism to Christianity vs. Paganism: Religious Identity and Interreligious Conflict in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” Colloque sur la littérature apocryphe chrétienne, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2006. "Fourth-Century Rabbinic Judaism and the Redaction of the Homilies," Christian Apocrypha Section, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2005. Moderator and Respondent, Special Session: Chosenness in the NT, Rabbinic Judaism, and Early Christianity, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2005. "Disinheriting the Gentiles? Noah and the Nations in Early Jewish Self-Definition," A Covenant to the People, A Light to the Nations: Universalism, Exceptionalism, and the Problem of Chosenness in Jewish Thought, McMaster University, May 18-20, 2005. "Paradigms of Scribal Perfection: Enoch from the Book of the Watchers to Sefer Hekhalot," Seminar on Ancient Judaisms and Christianities, University of Toronto, February 7, 2005. "Heresiology and the (Jewish-)Christian Novel: Narrativized Polemics in the Pseudo-Clementines," Making Selves and Marking Others: Heresy and Self-Definition in Late Antiquity, Princeton University, January 18, 2005 "Sons of God, Giants, and the Generation of the Flood: Gen 6:1-4 and the Methods of Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis," paper to be presented in Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Consultation on Midrash, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 22, 2004. "Astrology and the Rhetoric of Jewish and Christian Chosenness," 42nd Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins: The Impact of Astrological (and Related) Traditions on Early Jewish and Christian Perspective, Pre-SBL Session, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 19, 2004 [Handout (PDF)] "The True Prophet in the Pseudo-Clementines: Prophethood, Apostolic Succession, and the Transmission of Truth," Colloquium on the Late Antique Roots of the Quranic Concept of Prophethood, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A., June 2, 2004. Review of Rolf Noormann's Ireneaus als Paulusinterpret (1994), for panel on "Irenaeus in Recent Scholarship: A Review of Recent Monographs," North American Patristics Society 17th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., USA, May 28, 2004. "Watchers, Giants, and Forbidden Lore: Some Angelological/Demonological Prosopographies in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam," 41st Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins: Parabiblical Prosopography, Princeton University, March 25, 2004. [HTML version on PSCO webpage] "Fire, Blood, and Water: Demonology and Halakha in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies," American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 23, 2003. "'Jewish Christianity and Other Varieties of Late Antique Judaism," The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity, McGill University, September 17, 2003. "The Culture-Hero Abraham: Antiquities 1.154-68 and the Greco-Roman Discourse about Astrology/Astronomy," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Josephus Seminar, Toronto, Ont., Canada, November 25, 2002. [PDF from Josephus Seminar webpage] "From Enoch to Metatron: The Jewish Afterlife of Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Pseudepigrapha Section, Toronto, Ont., Canada, November 24, 2002. "Apocrypha, Outside Books, and Pseudepigrapha: Ancient Categories and Modern Perceptions of Parabiblical Literature," 40th Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, Colloquium on "Parabiblical" Literature, University of Pennsylvania, October 10, 2002. [HTML version on PSCO webpage] "Demons, Jews, and Gentiles in the Pseudo-Clementines: Three 'Jewish-Christian' Approaches to Historiography and Self-Definition," The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Princeton University, January 10, 2002. "From Adam and Eve to the Fallen Angels: Jewish Disobedience and Pagan Wickedness in the Works of Justin Martyr," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Early Jewish/Christian Relations Section, Denver, Col., USA, November 18, 2001. "Heavenly Ascent, Angelic Descent, and the Transmission of Knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16," paper presented at In Heaven as it is on Earth: Imagined Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, Princeton University, January 14, 2001. "Creation, Transgression, and Redemption: The Interpretation of Genesis 1:22-23 in the Creation Cupola of San Marco," Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, History of Interpretation Section, Nashville, Tenn., USA, November 19, 2000. Panels, Workshops, and Short Presentations "Was there Science in Ancient Judaism? Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Science, " Religion and Science Group, McMaster University, January 28, 2004. Presentations in panels on James VanderKam and Gabriele Boccaccini, Enoch and Qumran Origins: The Enoch Group and Its Literature in the Second Century BCE, The Second Enoch Seminar, Venice, Italy, July 1-5, 2003. Panel discussant on Hermeneutics and Jewish biblical interpretation for "Scripture In and Out of Context," the fifth in a series of Panels and Teach-Ins exploring religious issues raised by the events of September 11, 2001; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, October 11, 2001. (Televised in the tri-state area on the Metro Learning Channel program, "The Unblinking Eye") "The Trickery of the Fallen Angels and the Demonic Mimesis of the Divine: Aetiology, Identity, and Polemic in the Writings of Justin Martyr," Center for the Study of Religion, Religion and Culture Workshop, Princeton University, September 21, 2001. "Abraham and Astrology: The Interpretation of Genesis 12:10-20 in Josephus' Antiquities," the Program in the Ancient World Graduate Student Colloquium, Princeton University, October 2, 2000. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Co-organizer, with Dana Hollander, "A Covenant to the People, A Light to the Nations: Universalism, Exceptionalism, and the Problem of Chosenness, McMaster University, May 18-20, 2005. Co-chair, with Robert A. Kraft, Colloquium on “Parabiblical Literature”, 40th Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, fall 2002 to spring 2003. The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, with Adam H. Becker and Peter Schäfer at Princeton University, in conjunction with Martin Goodman and Simon Price at Oxford University, as part of the Oxford-Princeton Research Partnership's Culture and Religions of the Eastern Mediterranean project; Workshop: Fall Semester 2001; Colloquium: January 9-11, 2002, Princeton University In Heaven as it is on Earth: Imagined Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, with Ra'anan Abusch and Peter Schäfer; Workshop: Fall Semester 2000; Colloquium: January 11-13, 2001, Princeton University TEACHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE See further Teaching, Course Websites, and Graduate Advising Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, as of July 1, 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, 2003 to 2007 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Religion and Program in Jewish Studies, Princeton University, 2002 to 2003 Part-time Lecturer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Religion, Fall 2001. Assistant-in-Instruction, Princeton University, Department of Religion, Spring 2000 OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Editorial Board, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, Mohr Siebeck (2007 to present) Editorial Advisory Board, Henoch (2005 to present) Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (2005-2007) Co-Chair, Hellenistic Judaism Section, Society of Biblical Literature (2007 to present). Steering Committee, SBL Consultation on Rethinking the Concept and Categories of 'Bible' in Antiquity (2006 to present). Canadian Society of Patristics Study (CSPS) representative to Canadian Council for the Study of Religion (CCSR), 2006–2008 Referee for grant applications for Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship (2004) and Ontario Graduate Scholarships (2007) Referee for articles for Jewish Studies Quarterly, Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, and book MSS for Cambridge University Press Chair, Undergraduate Affairs committee, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, 2005-2007. Jewish Studies Lectureship Committee, McMaster University, 2004-2007. E. Togo Salmon Roman Studies Fund committee, McMaster University, 2005-2006. Coordinator for Canadian Friends of Hebrew University Bursary, McMaster University, 2003-2006. Search Committees for Positions in Asian Religions (3), Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, 2004/2005, 2005/2006. Co-Coordinator of 2005 Hooker Visiting Lectureship (Prof. Gary Anderson). Library Representative, Department of Religious Studies, 2004-2005. Coordinator of 2004 Hooker Visiting Lectureship (Prof. Donald MacCallum). Undergraduate Awards Officer, 2003-2004. Research Assistant to Peter Schaefer (Princeton University), 2000-2002 Study Group Facilitator, Princeton Rosh Hodesh Women's Group, 2000-2001 Research Assistant to Richard D. Saley (Harvard University), 1997-1999 Research Assistant for Arvind Sharma(McGill University), Spring 1997 Research & Clerical Assistant for Bruce D. Chilton (Bard College), 1993-1994 Research & Clerical Assistant for Anthony J. Guerra (Bard College), 1992 Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposia, Eleventh Jerusalem Summer School in Jewish Studies, “Jews and Judaism in the Eyes of ‘Others,’” Institute of Advanced Study, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Summer 2001 “Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer,” Burton Visotzky, Jewish Theological Seminary [Audit], Summer 2001 Independent Studies in Geez with Michael Rand (New York University), Spring 2000 Intensive Course in Modern Hebrew, Harvard University, Summer School Summer 1998 Intensive Course in Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew University, Rothberg School for Overseas Students, Summer 1996 Intensive Course in Attic Greek, Harvard University, Summer School Summer 1994 Undergraduate Studies in Religion, Bard College, 1991-1994 (Studies with Bruce D. Chilton and others on the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and the New Testament, with a special focus on Hebrew and Aramaic language skills.) Computing and the Humanities Webpage Design for josephus.yorku.ca, 2000. Webpage design for the Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1999-2001. Research and webpage design for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1998-1999 Webpage design for the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, 1996 to 1997 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & HONORS 2005-2008 – Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Board of Canada (SSHRC), “Jewish Christianity and the Diversity of Late Antique Judaism” ($110,000 CAN) 2005 – Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, “Jewish Christianity and the Diversity of Late Antique Judaism.” ($5,000 USD) 2005 – Publication Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board, 2005. ($1,123 CAN) 2005 – Research Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board, “Recovering the diversity of post-70 Judaism: Jewish-Christians, mystics, and other non-Rabbinic Jews” ($3,849 CAN) 2004 – Conference Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board, funding for travel to Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting ($1,129 CAN) 2004 – Research Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board, “Recovering the diversity of post-70 Judaism: Jewish-Christians, mystics, and other non-Rabbinic Jews” ($4,500 CAN) 2004 – Conference Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board, funding for travel to North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting ($1,038 CAN) 2005 – Research Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board ($3,849 CAN) 2005 – Conference Grant, McMaster University Arts Research Board, funding for travel to Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting ($1,129 CAN) 2002 – Summer Grant, Princeton University Program in the Ancient World Summer Grant 2001-2002 – Dissertation Award, Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion 2001 – Summer Grant, Princeton University Program in the Ancient World Summer Grant 2000 – Travel Grant, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) Travel Grant 2000 – Summer Grant, Princeton University Program in the Ancient World Summer Grant 2000 – Princeton Program in Late Antiquity Funding. Support granted for independent studies in Geez with Michael Rand (New York University) 1997 – W. M. Birks Award, McGill University. An award given annually to one graduating member of the Faculty of Religious Studies 1996-1997 – James McGill Award, McGill University Faculty of Arts. An award based on academic standing, given to students who rank in at least the top 5% of their faculties. 1996-1997 – Dean's Honours List, McGill University 1994-1995 – Clinton R. and Harriet M. Jones Scholar, Bard College 1987-1988 – Japanese History Prize, Phillips Exeter Academy MEMBERSHIPS Association for Jewish Studies, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), American Academy of Religion Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, SBL Josephus Seminar