Notes on Contributors
Daniel Assefa
is a lecturer of philology at Addis Ababa University. He is interested in 1 Enoch, textual criticism of the Geʿez Bible, and Ethiopian biblical hermeneutics. He is the author of L’Apocalypse des animaux (1 Hen 85–90): Une propagande militaire? (2007) and Space and Time in 1 Enoch 1–36: A Narrative Critical Analysis (Ph.D. dissertation, UNISA, 2018).
Kameliya Atanasova
is a historian of early modern Islam specializing in Ottoman Sufism. She has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion and History at Washington & Lee University.
Florentina Badalanova Geller
is Senior Researcher at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. She previously taught at Sofia University and London University and is now Honorary Research Associate at UCL. From 2010–2018, she was Professor in the Topoi Excellence Cluster at the Freie Universität Berlin and since 2007 has been a regular Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. In 2022–2023, she is also a Fellow at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris.
Gabriele Boccaccini
is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Michigan. A specialist of Enoch literature and the founding director of the Enoch Seminar, he is author and editor of numerous publications on the subject, including Middle Judaism (1991), Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts (1993), Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (1998), Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (2002), The Origins of Enochic Judaism (2002), Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007), The Early Enoch Literature (2007), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009), Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels (2016), and Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation (2020).
Francis Borchardt
is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at NLA University College in Bergen, Norway. His research focuses on Jewish and Christian texts from the Hellenistic and Roman eras. He has particular interests in the production and dissemination of these writings in ancient and modern media.
Giulio Busi
is a Full Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), where he directs the Institute of Jewish Studies. He is the author of nearly one hundred publications, including numerous essays and analyses of the kabbalah and Jewish symbols, critical editions of Jewish texts, and studies on the relations between Jewish and Christian culture during the Renaissance.
Euan Cameron
is Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, with a concurrent position in Columbia University. His publications include The European Reformation (1991; 2nd ed. 2012), Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe (2000), and Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason and Religion 1250–1750 (2010). Among works which he has edited are the third volume, covering 1450–1750, of the New Cambridge History of the Bible (2016) and the sixth volume, on biblical interpretation, of The Annotated Luther (2017).
Tobias Churton
is the author of twenty-five published books, including biographies of William Blake, Elias Ashmole, Aleister Crowley, and G.I. Gurdjieff. A Master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, led to over a decade’s employment as researcher, director, and producer of religious television for the BBC and Channel 4, including the four-part drama-documentary Gnostics and its Channel 4 book in 1987. In 2005 he was appointed Honorary Fellow, Exeter University, to lecture on Western Esotericism.
Elena Dugan
teaches in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Phillips Academy, Andover. She completed her dissertation in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton University in 2021. Her forthcoming monograph explores the manuscript and composition history of 1 Enoch, focusing on the Animal Apocalypse.
Ted M. Erho
is Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (Collegeville, MN, USA) and a research fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany). He has published a number of articles on Second Temple Judaism and on Geʿez manuscripts and literature.
Robert G. Hall
long time Elliott Professor of Religion at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, is the author of Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography (1991). He has also written articles on various ancient Jewish and early Christian documents, especially apocalypses and Pauline epistles. He is currently preparing a commentary on the Ascension of Isaiah.
Ariel Hessayon
is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written extensively on a variety of early modern topics: antiscripturism, antitrinitarianism, ball games, book burning, communism, environmentalism, esotericism, extra-canonical texts, heresy, crypto-Jews, Judaizing, millenarianism, mysticism, prophecy, and religious radicalism.
Ralph Lee
has taught at SOAS University of London, Cambridge University, the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, and the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. His research interests are in Ethiopian Christianity, Ethiopian biblical hermeneutics, and more broadly, Christianity in Asia and the Middle East and contemporary trends, as well as the translation of Geʿez texts. He has published on Ethiopian Orthodox theology, Ethiopian biblical textual history, contemporary trends in Ethiopian Christianity, and biblical interpretation, including the interpretation of 1 Enoch within the Christian tradition.
Jared Ludlow
is Professor of Ancient Scripture and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU) where he has taught since 2006, including two years at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. Jared received his Bachelor’s degree from BYU in Near Eastern Studies, his Master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley in Biblical Hebrew, and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Religions from University of California Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. He is the current Publications Director of the BYU Religious Studies Center.
Shaul Magid
is Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. His research spans Lurianic Kabbalah, Hasidism, and American Judaism. His books include Hasidism on the Margins (2003), From Metaphysics to Midrash (2008), American Post-Judaism (2013), Hasidism Incarnate (2014), Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism (2019), The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the New Testament (2020), and Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021).
Annette Yoshiko Reed
is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. Her publications include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature (2005), Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (2018), and Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). She is the co-author, with John C. Reeves, of Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2018).