Conferences and Seminars
 
ORGANIZING:
  1.     Co-organizer with John Kloppenborg of the Seminar on Ancient Judaisms and Christianities
           at the University of Toronto
  2.     Co-organizing with Loren Stuckenbruck and George Brooke
           “Giving the Torah at Mount Sinai”, to be held in Durham, England July 4-6, 2007
  3.     Member of the Organizing Committee of the Syriac Studies Symposium V to held in Toronto July 9-12, 2007
 
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2006
  1.     Organizer and participant in special session on 4Ezra in the Pseudepigrapha session
           at the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington D.C., November 18-21:
                Presentation entitled: “Paraphrasing Lamentations in 4Ezra”
  2.     Organizer and presiding at the Philo of Alexandria Seminar at the Society of Biblical Literature,
           Washington D.C., November 18-21:
                Session entitled: “Reception of Philo of Alexandria in Rabbinic Judaism and
                Early Christianity: The Question Revisited”
2007
  1.     January “Prophetic Ends: Cessations and Transformations of Revelation in Antiquity.”  
          At an invited conference, Revelation, Literature and Community in Antiquity, Princeton University
  2.     February Pseudepigraphy, Authority and Exemplarity, Marquette University, Department of Theology
  3.     February Scripturalization and Conceptualization: Rethinking 4Ezra" Marquette University,
           Department of Theology
  4.     February “Prophetic Ends: Concepts of Revelation in Ancient Judaism” The University of Kansas
  5.     February “Moral Perfection and Spiritual Education in Philo of Alexandria” The University of Kansas
  6.     March “Between Heaven and Earth: Liminal Visions in 4Ezra,” At an invited conference,
           The ‘Otherworld’ and Its Relations to this World, Nijmegen, Holland
  7.     June 5 Keynote Lecture at a Conference in honor of Professor Ithamar Grunewald, Tel Aviv University
  8.     July 4-6 “Giving the Torah at Sinai” Durham Conference Presentation entitled: “Ezra Ascends Sinai”
  9.     July 4-6 “Giving the Torah at Sinai” Durham Conference
           Presentation entitled: “Ezra Ascends Sinai”
  10.     July 22-26 Vienna International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
           Presentation entitled: “Philo’s interpretation of biblical laws and the DSS”
  11.     July 8-13 Fourth Enoch Seminar, Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees
           (Camaldoli-Ravenna)
            Presentation entitled: “Is Jubilees ‘Rewritten Torah’ or a ‘new Torah’ or a ‘better Torah’?”
  12.     October Poetry and Prophecy in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, Dead Sea Scrolls Conference,
           Trinity Western
  13.     November Spiritual Discipline and Moral Education in Ezra Traditions,
           SBL special joint Session of Moral Perfection and Exemplarity at SBL
           (Pseudepgirapha Group and Hellenistic Judaism Group)
  14.     November Authority and Tradition: Archetypes of Tradition,  Conference "Editing the Bible,”
           University of Toronto
  15.     Organized and Participating in Special Session on John Barton’s Oracles of God,
           International Meeting of SBL 2007, Vienna
  16.     Moses as Exemplar in Ancient Judaism, at the 2007 International Meeting program unit
           Reception of Biblical Protagonists in Ancient Judaism, Vienna
  17.     The authority and transformation of Mosaic Law in Philo and the Dead Sea Scrolls,
           2007 International Meeting program unit Dead Sea Scrolls and Hebrew Bible, Vienna
2008
  1.     July 20-25 Presenter at International Workshop at the Institute of Advanced Studies
           The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Paideia and Scripture?”
           The Transformation of Religious Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300 to 900 C.E.)