JASON M. ZURAWSKI

University of Michigan Department of Middle East Studies 202 South Thayer Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 [email protected]

EDUCATION: 2016 Ph.D. in Judaism, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan 2016 Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies, University of Michigan 2012 M.A. in Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan 2009 B.A. in Ancient Civilizations & Biblical Studies and Classical Studies, University of Michigan

APPOINTMENTS: 2021– Lecturer, Department of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan 2020–2021 Fellow, “Translating Jewish Cultures,” Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan 2016–2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute, Department of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen 2012–2016 Instructor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan 2010–2012 Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

PUBLICATIONS: Monographs fc Jewish Paideia: Education, Enculturation, and the Discourse of Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora, Fortress Press (in contract, est. late 2021). prep Commentary on the Wisdom of Solomon for Handbuch zum Alten Testament, Mohr Siebeck (in contract).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters fc “Crafted Ambiguity in the Philosophy of the Wisdom of Solomon: The Case(s) of Epistemology and Cosmology,” Journal for the Study of the 32 (2021). fc “Philo’s Therapy of Desire: Law, Askēsis, and the Rod of Paideia,” in Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse, ed. L. Doering and M. Cover (forthcoming). fc “Solomonic Paideia: Divine Pedagogy in the Psalms of Solomon,” in The Psalms of Solomon, ed. K. Atkinson, P. Pouchelle, and F. Albrecht, Parabiblica (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming). fc “God as Pedagogue,” in Handbuch zur Septuaginta. Band 6: Die Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Septuaginta, ed. M. Meiser and F. Wilk (Munich: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, forthcoming). 2021 “The Book of Wisdom,” in The Oxford Handbook of the , ed. G. S. Oegema (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). 2020 “4 Maccabees: Introduction and Annotations,” in The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha, ed. J. Klawans and L. M. Wills (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). 2020 “Wisdom and Apocalypticism,” in The Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature, ed. S. L. Adams and M. J. Goff (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2020), 248-266. 2018 “Rethinking the Divide between 4 Ezra and : Getting to the (Evil) Heart of the Matter,” in “Wisdom Poured Out like Water”: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini, ed. J. H. Ellens, I. W. Oliver, J. von Ehrenkrook, J. Waddell, and J. M. Zurawski, DCLS 38 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018), 177-192.

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2017 “Mosaic Paideia: The Law of Moses within Philo of Alexandria’s Model of Jewish Education,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 48 (2017): 480-505. 2017 “Jewish Education and Identity: Towards an Understanding of Second Temple Paideia,” in Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Context, ed. J. M. Zurawski and G. Boccaccini, BZNW 228 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017), 267-278. 2017 “Mosaic Torah as Encyclical Paideia: Reading Paul’s Allegory of Hagar and Sarah in Light of Philo of Alexandria’s,” in Pedagogy in Early Judaism and Christianity, ed. K. M. Hogan, M. Goff, and E. Wasserman, EJL 41 (Atlanta: SBL, 2017), 283-307. 2017 “Paideia: A Multifarious and Unifying Concept in the Wisdom of Solomon,” in Pedagogy in Early Judaism and Christianity, ed. K. M. Hogan, M. Goff, and E. Wasserman, EJL 41 (Atlanta: SBL, 2017), 195-214. 2016 “From Musar to Paideia, From Torah to Nomos: How the Translation of the Septuagint Impacted the Paideutic Ideal in Hellenistic Judaism,” in XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Munich, 2013, ed. W. Kraus, M. Meiser, and M. N. van der Meer, SBLSCS 64 (Atlanta: SBL, 2016), 531-554. 2014 “Ezra Begins: 4 Ezra as Prequel and the Making of a Superhero,” in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures, ed. E. Tigchelaar, BETL 270 (Leuven: Peeters, 2014), 289-304. 2014 “The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14,” in Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies, ed. G. Boccaccini and J. M. Zurawski, LSTS 87 (London: T&T Clark, 2014), 97-106. 2013 “Hell on Earth: Corporeal Existence as the Ultimate Punishment of the Wicked in Philo of Alexandria and the Wisdom of Solomon,” in Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ed. J. Harold Ellens (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013), 1:193-226. 2012 “Separating the Devil from the Diabolos: A Fresh Reading of Wisdom of Solomon 2:24,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21 (2012): 366-399.

Edited Volumes fc W. M. Schniedewind, J. M. Zurawski, and G. Boccaccini, eds., Torah: Functions, Meanings, and Diverse Manifestations in Early Judaism and Christianity, SBLEJL (Atlanta: SBL, forthcoming). fc K. M. Hogan and J. M. Zurawski, eds., 2 special issues on the Wisdom of Solomon in the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Sept. and Dec., 2021. 2019 A. Kulik, G. Boccaccini, L. DiTommaso, D. Hamidovic, and M. Stone, eds., J. M. Zurawski, assoc. ed., A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). 2018 J. H. Ellens, I. W. Oliver, J. von Ehrenkrook, J. Waddell, and J. M. Zurawski, eds., “Wisdom Poured Out like Water”: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini, DCLS 38 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018). 2017 J. M. Zurawski and G. Boccaccini, eds., Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Context, BZNW 228 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017). 2016 L. Grabbe and G. Boccaccini, eds., with J. M. Zurawski, The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, LSTS 88 (London: T&T Clark, 2016). 2014 G. Boccaccini and J. M. Zurawski, eds., Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies, LSTS 87 (London: T&T Clark, 2014). 2013 M. Henze and G. Boccaccini, eds., with J. M. Zurawski, Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall, JSJSup 164 (Leiden: Brill, 2013). 2012 A. A. Orlov and G. Boccaccini, eds., J. M. Zurawski, assoc. ed., New Perspectives on 2 : No Longer Slavonic Only, SJS 4 (Leiden: Brill, 2012). 2011 J. M. Zurawski, ed., Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam, Hen 33 (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2011).

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Online Publications 2018 “Education as Demonstrated and Education as Discussed in the Letter of Aristeas,” in A Genius for Mentorship: A Forum in Honor of Ben Wright on his 65th Birthday, ed. F. Borchardt and E. Mroczek. http://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2018/1/9/a-genius-for-mentorship-a-forum-in-honor-of-ben- wright-on-his-65th-birthday.

Reviews fc Patrick Pouchelle, Dieu éducateur: Une nouvelle approche d’un concept de la théologie biblique entre Bible Hébraïque, Septante et littérature grecque classique, in Journal for the Study of Judaism, in preparation. fc Maren R. Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria, in Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, in preparation 2014 Peter W. Flint, Jean Duhaime, and Kyung S. Baek, Celebrating the : A Canadian Collection, in Dead Sea Discoveries 21. 2012 Hershel Shanks, Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Adventures of an Archaeology Outsider, in Near Eastern Archaeology 75. 2012 John Kampen, Wisdom Literature, in Henoch 35. 2011 Ra'anan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, and Calvin J. Roetzel, Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity, in Henoch 34. 2011 Sandra Gambetti, The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews: A Historical Reconstruction, in Henoch 33.

CONFERENCES: Organization 2020 Organizer, with Hindy Najman, “Spiritual Exercise and Wisdom: Formation of the Subject II,” Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group, SBL Annual Meeting, online. November 2020. 2019 Organizer, “Twenty-Five Years of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism Unit,” Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CO. November 2019. 2019 Organizer, with Hindy Najman, “Spiritual Exercise and Wisdom: Formation of the Subject,” Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CO. November 2019. 2019 Secretary, “New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins II,” Chairs Guillaume Dye and Carlos Segovia, Gazzada, Italy. June 2019. 2019 Secretary, “Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century,” Chairs Annette Yoshiko Reed and Gabriele Boccaccini, Florence, Italy. June 2019. 2018 Organizer, “The Wisdom of Solomon at the Crossroads of Wisdom, Apocalypticism, and Philosophy,” Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group, SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. November 2018. 2018 Secretary, “The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160-104 BCE),” Chairs Andrea Berlin and Paul Kosmin, Milan, Italy. June 2018. 2018 Organizer, with George Brooke, Dirk Smilde Research Seminar, “Comparative Studies with Special Reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Groningen, Netherlands. February to May 2018. 2017 Conference Chair, with William Schniedewind, “From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity,” Camaldoli, Italy. June 2017. 2017 Secretary, “New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins,” Chair Guillaume Dye, Florence, Italy. June 2017. 2015 Conference Chair, “Second Temple Jewish Paideia in its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts,” Naples, Italy. July 2015. 2015 Secretary, “Apocalypticism and Mysticism,” Chairs Daniel Boyarin, Lorenzo DiTommaso, and Elliot Wolfson, Milan, Italy. June 2015. 2015 Secretary, Voice of Jacob Workshop and Seminar, Chairs Alexander Kulik, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, and Michael Stone, Nafplio, Greece. May 2015.

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2014 Session Chair, “Teachers, Torah, and Paideia in Early Judaism,” papers by John Collins, Matthew Goff, Karina Hogan, James Kugel, and Hindy Najman. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. November 2014. 2014 Secretary, “Reading Paul as a Second Temple Jew,” Chair Carlos Segovia, Rome, Italy. June 2014. 2014 Secretary, “Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission,” Chair Alexander Kulik, Dor, Israel. June 2014. 2013 Secretary, “Enoch and the Synoptic Tradition,” Chair Loren Stuckenbruck, Camaldoli, Italy. June 2013 2012 Secretary, “The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview,” Chair Lester Grabbe, Milan, Italy. June 2012. 2011 Secretary, “Second Baruch and Fourth Ezra: Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel,” Chair Matthias Henze, Milan, Italy. June 2011. 2009 Secretary, “Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in ,” Chair Andrei Orlov, Naples, Italy. June 2009.

Papers and Invited Talks 2020 “The Rod of Paideia: Soul Training in Philo of Alexandria,” SBL Annual Meeting, Online. November 2020. 2019 “Crafted Ambiguity in the Philosophy of the Wisdom of Solomon: The Case(s) of Epistemology and Cosmology,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CO. November 2019. 2019 “Debating Corporal Punishment in Childhood Education in First-Century Rome, Alexandria, and Palestine,” Qumran Institute Dead Sea Scrolls Circle, Groningen, Netherlands. November 2019. 2019 “The Frustrating Ambiguity in the Wisdom of Solomon: Unwitting Accident or Rhetorical Strategy?” University of Munich Colloquium, Germany. October 2019. 2018 “The Rhetoric of the End: Eschatology in the Wisdom of Solomon and Plato,” Groningen Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism Seminar, Protestant Theological University, Netherlands. December 2018. 2018 “The Eschatological Judgement of the Impious in the Wisdom of Solomon: Apocalyptic or Hellenistic Commonplace (or Both)?” SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. November 2018. 2018 Response to D. Burns, “Determinism and Compatibilism at Qumran and Nag Hammadi,” J. Frey, “The Impact of Qumran and Nag Hammadi Discoveries on New Testament Scholarship,” and L. DiTommaso, “Epistemology and Eschatology, Apocalyptic and Gnostic,” The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices, Berlin, Germany. July 2018. 2018 “Solomonic Paideia: Divine Pedagogy in the Psalms of Solomon and the Book of Wisdom,” Third Psalms of Solomon Colloquium, Aix-en-Provence, France. July 2018. 2018 “Philo on Writing, Memory, and the Mosaic Textbook,” Groningen-Leuven Dead Sea Scrolls Encounter: “Judaean Literacy in the Ancient Mediterranean,” University of Groningen, Netherlands. April 2018. 2017 “Orthos Logos as Orthos Nomos: The Stoic Active Principle in Hellenistic Judaism,” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. November 2017. 2017 Response to R. Falkenberg, “Wisdom Speculation from Wisdom of Solomon to Wisdom of Jesus Christ” and G. S. Smith, “Reading the Sentences of Sextus During the Origenist Controversy: NHC XII,1 and the Wisdom Traditions in Late Antique Egypt,” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. November 2017. 2017 “Askēsis: Education for the Agōn of the Corporeal World in Hellenistic Judaism,” International Symposium on Asceticism, Aarhus University, Denmark. November 2017. 2017 “Interaction through Education: Jewish Paideia in the Hellenistic and Roman Diaspora,” CRASIS (Culture, Religion and Society – Interdisciplinary Studies in the Ancient World) Ancient World Seminar: “Migration and Cultural Interaction,” University of Groningen, Netherlands. October 2017. 2017 Response to Joachim Schaper, “The ‘Stoic’ Solomon: From Torah to Nomos in the Hellenistic Age, from the Perspective of the Wisdom of Solomon,” 9th Enoch Seminar, Camaldoli, Italy. June 2017. 2017 “Teaching through Torture: Theodicy, Martyrdom, and the Quest to Explain the Horrific,” Qumran Institute Dead Sea Scrolls Circle, University of Groningen, Netherlands. April 2017. 2016 “Jewish Education in its Ancient Mediterranean Context,” Ubbo Emmius Fund annual investor dinner, Utrecht, Netherlands. September 2016.

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2015 “The Use of Elegchos / Elegchō in LXX Proverbs and Its Reception in the Hellenistic Diaspora,” SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 2015. 2014 Response to Gregory E. Sterling, “The Christian Preservation of the Works of Philo of Alexandria,” Voice of Jacob: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission, Dor, Israel. June 2014. 2013 “Paideia: A Multifarious and Unifying Concept in the Wisdom of Solomon.” SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. November 2013. 2013 “From Musar to Paideia, From Torah to Nomos: How the Translation of the Septuagint Impacted the Paideutic Ideal in Hellenistic Judaism.” IOSCS Congress, Munich, Germany. August 2013. 2013 “The Living Dead: The Death of the Soul in Philo of Alexandria and the Wisdom of Solomon.” SBL International Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. July 2013. 2012 “Mosaic Torah as Encyclical Paideia: Reading Paul’s Allegory of Hagar and Sarah in Light of Philo of Alexandria’s.” SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. November 2012. 2012 “Ezra Begins: 4 Ezra as Prequel and the Making of a Superhero.” Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense, “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures,” Leuven, Belgium. July 2012. 2012 “4 Ezra’s Evil Heart: A Divine Test in the Agon of an Ordained Two-World Dichotomy.” SBL International Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 2012. 2011 “Death as Divine Paideia and the Agon of Corporeal Life in the Wisdom of Solomon.” SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. November 2011. 2011 “On Provenance and Pseudepigrapha: Lessons Gleaned from the Gospel of Judas.” SBL International Meeting, London, UK. July 2011. 2011 “The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14.” Sixth Enoch Seminar, “Second Baruch and Fourth Ezra: Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel,” Milan, Italy. June 2011. 2011 “Philo’s Reading of the Phaedrus Myth: Breathing Genesis into the Platonic Text.” International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, “Neoplatonic Philosophy and the East,” Haifa, Israel. March, 2011. 2010 “Separating the Devil from the Diabolos: A Fresh Translation of Wisdom of Solomon 2:24.” Ninth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, Ravenna, Italy. June, 2010.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2021– University of Michigan: The Historical Jesus in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism: Theodicy and the Problem of Evil 2016–2020 University of Groningen: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism: Texts, History, and Cultural Context Old Testament Exegesis Jews, Christians, & Others: Pluralism & Politics in the Graeco-Roman World (Masters) Judaism: History, Sources, and Practices The Text Awakens: Reading and Using Religious Scriptures 2012–2016 University of Michigan: The Divine Feminine (freshman writing seminar) Elementary Classical Hebrew Intermediate Classical Hebrew Introduction to the New Testament Introduction to the Tanakh / Old Testament Introductory Syriac 2010–2012 University of Michigan (Graduate Student Instructor): Introduction to the New Testament Israel Before the Exile Jesus and the Gospels Second Temple Judaism

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SUPERVISION: 2018 University of Groningen Second Examiner, MA Thesis, Addy van der Woerd, “Al-Kindi and Heidegger, About Truth and God” (First Examiner, Clare Wilde)

SERVICE TO PROFESSION: 2018–Present Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Wisdom and Apocalypticism program unit, Society of Biblical Literature 2018–Present Member, Steering Committee, Groningen-Leuven-Oxford Dead Sea Scrolls Encounter 2017–Present Member, Steering Committee, Pseudepigrapha program unit, Society of Biblical Literature 2014–Present Member, Steering Committee, Wisdom and Apocalypticism program unit, Society of Biblical Literature 2012–Present Member, Board of Directors, Enoch Seminar

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS: 2018 Teacher of the Year nominee, Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Groningen 2017 Michael S. Bernstein Dissertation of the Year Award, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies 2016–2017 Ubbo Emmius Fund, postdoctoral fellowship, Qumran Institute, University of Groningen 2016 George F. and Celeste Hourani Memorial Scholarship, University of Michigan 2015 Rackham Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan 2015 Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies Graduate Student Award 2014–2015 Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan 2013 Sweetland Center for Writing, Junior Fellow, University of Michigan 2013 Marshall Weinberg Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies 2012–2015 Radcliffe/Ramsdell Fellowship, Rackham Grad School, University of Michigan 2011 Marshall Weinberg Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies 2010–2015 Departmental Fellowship, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan 2009–2012 Rackham Regents Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan 2009 Mr. and Mrs. Jerold Solovy Fellowship, Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies 2009 Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Frankel Fellowship, Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies 2008 Emily & John Guettler Scholarship, University of Michigan 2008 James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan 2008 Bartholomew Scholarship, most outstanding student of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan 2007 Philips Prize Greek Translation winner, Dept. of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

LANGUAGES: Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Latin, Italian, German, French

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