Curriculum Vitae Eibert Tigchelaar Education • Ph.D., 1994, Theology & Religious Studies, University of Groningen. Dissertation: Prophets of Old and The Day of The End. Zechariah, the Book of Watchers and Apocalyptic. Promotor/advisor: Prof. dr. A. S. van der Woude. • Kandidaatsexamen Semitic Languages, 1986, University of Groningen. • Doctoraalexamen Theology, 1985, University of Groningen. • Kandidaatsexamen Theology, 1979, University of Utrecht. Academic Fellowships, Appointments, etc. Florida State University, Department of Religion • Full Professor (Religions of Western Antiquity), 2006– University of Groningen, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies • Universitair docent, January to August 2006 • Post-doctoral Research Fellowship NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), 2001–2005. [“Vernieuwingsimpuls”] • Visiting Professor Biblical Hebrew, 1999–2001 [Docent Bijbels Hebreeuws] • Post-doctoral Research Fellowship KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), 1997–2000 • Ph.D. Grant 1986–1989 [Wetenschappelijk assistent in tijdelijke dienst] Free-lance Academic Work • Brill Publishers Leiden, 1996–1997 (The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition) • The Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, Jerusalem, 1995–1997 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIII) Publications Books (single-authored monographs) • To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones. Reading and Reconstructing the Fragmentary Early Jewish Sapiential Text 4QInstruction. Leiden: Brill, 2001. • Prophets of Old and The Day of the End: Zechariah, the Book of Watchers and Apocalyptic. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. (co-editor of text-editions) • García Martínez, Florentino, Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, and Adam S. van der Woude. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIII: Qumran Cave 11 II, 11Q2–18, 11Q20–31 Incorporating Earlier Editions by J.P.M. van der Ploeg, O.P. with a Contribution by Edward Herbert. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. • García Martínez, Florentino, and Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar. The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997–1998. Rev. ed. Leiden: Brill & Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000. (editor of collections of articles) • García Martínez, Florentino. Qumranica Minora I: Qumran Origins and Apocalypticism. Edited by Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. STDJ 63. Leiden: Brill, 2007. • García Martínez, Florentino. Qumranica Minora II: Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. STDJ 64. Leiden: Brill, 2007. (co-editor of collections of articles) • Hilhorst, Anthony, Émile Puech, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds. Flores Florentino; Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino García Martínez. JSJSup 122. Leiden: Brill, 2007. • García Martínez, Florentino, Annette Steudel, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds. From 4QMMT to Resurrection. Mélanges qumraniens en hommage à Émile Puech. STDJ 61. Leiden: Brill, 2006. • Noort, Ed, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds. Sodom’s Sin. Genesis 18–19 and its Interpretations. TBN 7. Leiden: Brill, 2004. • Lietaert Peerbolte, Bert Jan, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds. Kennis van het Kwaad. Zeven visies uit jodendom en christendom. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2004. • García Martínez, Florentino, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds. Fragmenten uit de woestijn. De Dode-Zeerollen opnieuw bekeken. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2003. • Noort, Ed, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds. The Sacrifice of Isaac. The Aqedah (Genesis 22) and Its Interpretations. TBN 4. Leiden: Brill, 2002. (single-authored other books) • Blijvend bewogen: christelijke identiteit en huispastoraat in discussie. Monografieën ’s Heeren Loo 13. Amersfoort: ’s Heeren Loo, 1995. • Tigchelaars van Kimswerd. Nakomelingen van Johannes Hanzes en Trijntje Everts uit Kimswerd. Een overzicht. Assen, 1992; 2d, expanded edition, Assen, 1992. Articles in peer-refereed journals • “Lady Folly and her House in Three Qumran Manuscripts: On the Relation between 4Q525 15, 5Q16, and 4Q184 1.” Revue de Qumran 23/91 (2008): 271–81. • “Hosea xii 10[9] in 4Q82.” Vetus Testamentum 56 (2006): 558–60. • “Notes on the Ezekiel Scroll from Masada (MasEzek).” Revue de Qumran 22/86 (2005): 269–75. • “A Cave 4 Fragment of Divre Moshe (4QDM) and the Text of 1Q22 I 7–10 and Jubilees 1:9, 14.” Dead Sea Discoveries 12 (2005): 303–12. • ““These are the names of the spirits of …”: A Preliminary Edition of 4QCatalogue of Spirits (4Q230) and New Manuscript Evidence for the Two Spirits Treatise (4Q257 and 1Q29a).” Revue de Qumran 21/84 (2004): 529–47. • “Minuscula Qumranica I.” Revue de Qumran 21/84 (2004): 643–48. • “On the Unidentified Fragments of DJD XXXIII and PAM 43.680: A New Manuscript of 4QNarrative and Poetic Composition, and Fragments of 4Q13, 4Q269, 4Q525 and 4QSb (?).” Revue de Qumran 21/83 (2004): 477–85. • “Notes on the Readings of the DJD Editions of 1Q and 4QMysteries.” Revue de Qumran 21/81 (2003): 99–107. • “Working with Few Data: The Relation Between 4Q285 and 11Q14.” Dead Sea Discoveries 7 (2000): 49–56. • “More on 4Q264A (4QHalakha A or 4QWays of Righteousnessc?).” Revue de Qumran 19/75 (2000): 453–56. • “More Identifications of Scraps and Overlaps.” Revue de Qumran 19/73 (1999): 61–68. • “HBʾ BYḤD (4Q418 64+199+66 par 4Q417 1 i 17–19) and the Height of the Columns of 4Q418.” Revue de Qumran 18/72 (1998): 589–93. • “Sabbath Halakha and Worship in 4QWays of Righteousness: 4Q421 11 and 13+2+8 par 4Q264a 1–2.” Revue de Qumran 18/71 (1998): 359–72. • “4Q499 48+47 (par 4Q369 1 ii): A Forgotten Identification.” Revue de Qumran 18/70 (1997): 303–6. • “Some More Small 11Q1 Fragments.” Revue de Qumran 18/70 (1997): 325–30, pl. 2. • (with F. García Martínez) “The Books of Enoch (1 Enoch) and the Aramaic Fragments from Qumran.” Revue de Qumran 14/53 (1989): 131–46. • “More on Apocalyptic and Apocalypses.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 18 (1987): 137–44. • “L’ange qui parlait à Zacharie, est-il un personnage apocalyptique?” Estudios Bíblicos 45 (1987): 347–60. Articles or chapters in books • “The Evil Inclination in the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a Re-edition of 4Q468i (4QSectarian Text?).” Pages 347–57 in Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity: Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst. Edited by Alberdina Houtman, Albert de Jong, and Magda Misset-van de Weg. AJEC 73. Leiden: Brill, 2008. • “A Qumran Cave 2 Fragment Preserving Part of Numbers 23:5-7[8] (2Q29 1).” Pages 83–86 in The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam. Edited by George H. van Kooten and Jacques van Ruiten. TBN 11. Leiden: Brill, 2008. • “Balaam and Enoch.” Pages 87–99 in The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam. Edited by George H. van Kooten and Jacques van Ruiten. TBN 11. Leiden: Brill, 2008. • “Notes on 4Q206/206a, 4Q203-4Q204, and Two Unpublished Fragments (4Q59?).” Meghillot. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls 5–6 (2008): *187–*199. [= A Festschrift for Devorah Dimant. Edited by Moshe Bar-Asher and Emanuel Tov. Jerusalem: Bialik, 2007] • “The Imaginal Context and the Visionary of the Aramaic New Jerusalem.” Pages 257–70 in Flores Florentino; Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino García Martínez. Edited by Anthony Hilhorst, Émile Puech, and Eibert Tigchelaar. JSJSup 122. Leiden: Brill, 2007. • “Wisdom and Counter-Wisdom in 4QInstruction, Mysteries and 1 Enoch.” Pages 177–93 in The Early Enoch Literature. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins. JSJSup 121. Leiden: Brill, 2007. • “Remarks on Transmission and Traditions in the Parables of Enoch: A Response to James VanderKam.” Pages 100–109 in Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man. Revisiting the Book of Parables. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. • “Catalogue of Spirits, Liturgical Manuscript with Angelological Content, Incantation? Reflections on the Character of a Fragment from Qumran (4Q230 1). With Appendix: Edition of the Fragments of IAA #114.” Pages 133–46 in A Kind of Magic: Understanding Magic in the New Testament and its Religious Environment. Edited by Michael Labahn and Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte. LNTS (JSNTS) 306. London: T&TClark, 2007. • “Bare Feet and Holy Ground: Excursive Remarks on Exod 3:5 and its Reception.” Pages 17–36 in The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses. Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity. Edited by G.H. van Kooten. TBN 9. Leiden: Brill, 2006. • “Publication of PAM 43.398 (IAA #202) Including New Fragments of 4Q269.” Pages 265–80 in From 4QMMT to Resurrection. Mélanges qumraniens en hommage à Émile Puech. Edited by Florentino García Martínez, Annette Steudel, and Eibert Tigchelaar. STDJ 61. Leiden: Brill, 2006. • “‘Lights serving as Signs for Festivals’ (Gen 1:14b) in Enūma eliš and Early Judaism.” Pages 31–48 in The Creation of Heaven and Earth. Re-interpretations of Genesis I in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics. Edited by George H. van Kooten. TBN 8. Leiden: Brill, 2005. • “Baraies on Mani’s Rapture, Paul, and the Antediluvian Apostles.” Pages 429–41 in The Wisdom of Egypt: Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic Essays in Honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen. Edited by Anthony Hilhorst and George H. van Kooten. AJEC 59. Leiden: Brill, 2005. • “Jubilees and 1 Enoch and the Issue of Transmission of Knowledge.” Pages 99–101 in Enoch and Qumran Origins. New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. • “Evaluating the Discussions Concerning The Original Order of Chapters 91—93 and Codicological Data Pertaining to 4Q212 and Chester Beatty XII Enoch.” Pages 220–23 in Enoch and Qumran Origins. New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. • “Sodom and Gomorrah in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Pages 47–62 in Sodom’s Sin. Genesis 18–19 and its Interpretations. Edited by Ed Noort & Eibert Tigchelaar. TBN 6. Leiden: Brill, 2004. • “In Search of the Scribe of 1QS.” Pages 439–52 in Emanuel. Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls in Honor of Emanuel Tov. Edited by Shalom M. Paul, Robert A. Kraft, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and Weston Fields. VTSup 94. Leiden: Brill, 2003. • “The White Dress of the Essenes and the Pythagoreans.” Pages 301–21 in Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome. Studies in Ancient Cultural Interaction in Honour of A. Hilhorst. Edited by Florentino García Martínez and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen. JSJSup 82. Leiden: Brill, 2003. • “Seth in Sirach (Ben Sira 49:16).” Pages 177–86 in Eve’s Children. The Biblical Stories Retold and Interpreted in Jewish and Christian Traditions. Edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen. TBN 5. Leiden: Brill, 2003. • “Some Observations on the Relationship between Zechariah 9–11 and Jeremiah.” Pages 260–70 in Bringing Out the Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion in Zechariah 9–14. Edited by Mark J. Boda and Michael H. Floyd. JSOTSS 370. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. • “Your Wisdom and Your Folly: The Case of 1–4QMysteries.” Pages 69–88 in Wisdom and Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Biblical Tradition. Edited by Florentino García Martínez. BETL 168. Leuven: Peeters, 2003. • “Is the Liar Bar Kokhba? Considering the Date and Provenance of the Greek (Ethiopic) Apocalypse of Peter.” Pages 63–77 in The Apocalypse of Peter. Edited by Jan N. Bremmer and István Czachesz. Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha 7. Leuven: Peeters, 2003. • “The Cave 4 Damascus Document Manuscripts and the Text of the Bible.” Pages 93–111 in The Bible as Book. The Hebrew Bible and the Judaean Desert Discoveries. Edited by E. D. Herbert and E. Tov. London: The British Library, 2002. • “Towards a Reconstruction of the Beginning of 4QInstruction (4Q416 Fragment 1 and Parallels).” Pages 99–126 in The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought. Edited by Charlotte Hempel, Armin Lange, and Hermann Lichtenberger. BETL 149. Leuven: Peeters, 2002. • “Annotated Lists of Overlaps and Parallels in the Non-biblical Texts from Qumran and Masada.” Pages 285–322 in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXXIX. The Texts from the Judaean Desert. Indices and an Introduction to the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series. Edited by Emanuel Tov. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. • “Some Remarks on the Book of Watchers, the Priests, Enoch and Genesis, and 4Q208.” Henoch 24 (2002): 143–45 [The Origins of Enochic Judaism. Proceedings of the First Enoch Seminar. University of Michigan, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy June 19–23, 2001. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini. Turin: Zamorani, 2002.] • “4Q322a. 4QHistorical Text H?” Pages 125–28, pl. XL, in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXVIII. Wadi Daliyeh II. The Samaria Papyri from Wadi Daliyeh and Qumran Cave 4 XXVIII. Miscellanea, Part 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. • “4Q332a. 4QUnidentified Text.” Page 129, pl. XLI, in ibidem. • “4Q468cc-dd. 4QUnidentified Fragments C, cc-dd.” Pages 219–22, pl. LI, in ibidem. • (with F. García Martínez) “4Q208–209. 4QAstronomical Enocha-b ar: Introduction.” Pages 95–103 in DJD XXXVI: Qumran Cave 4 XXVI Cryptic Texts and Miscellanea, Part 1. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. • (with F. García Martínez) “4Q208. 4QAstronomical Enocha ar.” Pages 104–31, pls. III-IV, in ibidem. • (with F. García Martínez) “4Q209. 4QAstronomical Enochb ar.” Pages 132–71, pls. V-VII, in ibidem. • “4Q294. 4QSapiential-Didactic Work C.” Pages 247–48, pl. XIV, in ibidem. • “The Addressees of 4QInstruction.” Pages 62–75 in Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran. Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies Oslo 1998. Published in Memory of Maurice Baillet. Edited by Daniel K. Falk, Florentino García Martínez, and Eileen M. Schuller. STDJ 35. Leiden: Brill, 2000. • “A Newly Identified 11QSerekh ha-Yahad Fragment (11Q29)?” Pages 285–92 in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years after Their Discovery. Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20-25, 1997. Edited by Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, and James C. VanderKam. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with The Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, 2000. • “Eden and Paradise: The Garden Motif in Some Early Jewish Texts (1 Enoch and other texts found at Qumran).” Pages 37–62 in Paradise Interpreted. Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity. Edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen. TBN 2. Leiden: Brill, 1999. • “Reconstructing 11Q17 Shirot ‘Olat Ha-Shabbat.” Pages 171–85 in The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Technological Innovations, New Texts, and Reformulated Issues. Edited by Donald W. Parry and Eugene Ulrich. STDJ 30. Leiden: Brill, 1999. • “4Q445. 4QLament A.” Pages 379–84, pl. XXVI, in DJD XXIX: Qumran Cave 4 XX Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999. • “4Q446. 4QPoetic Text A.” Pages 385–88, pl. XXVI, in ibidem. • “4Q447. 4QPoetic Text B.” Pages 389–90, pl. XXVI, in ibidem. • (with F. García Martínez) “Psalms Manuscripts from Qumran Cave 11: A Preliminary Edition.” Revue de Qumran 17/65–68 (1996): 73–107; pls. 8–13. [= Hommage à Józef T. Milik. Édité par Florentino García Martínez et Émile Puech. Paris: Gabalda, 1996] Other publications • (with Mladen Popović) “Conference report of ‘Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Reconsidering the Cave 1 Texts Sixty Years after Their Discovery’ (IOQS, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 16-18, 2007),” Henoch 30/1 (2008): 200–203. • “Foreword.” Pages vii–xi in Florentino García Martínez. Qumranica Minora I: Qumran Origins and Apocalypticism. Edited by Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. STDJ 63. Leiden: Brill, 2007. • “Foreword.” Pages vii–viii in Florentino García Martínez. Qumranica Minora II: Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. STDJ 63. Leiden: Brill, 2007. • Revised transcription and translation of 4Q394–4Q399 in E. Tov et al., The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2006). • (with F. García Martínez) “Bibliography of the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Revue de Qumran 18/71 (1998): 459–90; 18/72 (1998): 605–39. • (with F. García Martínez) “1 Enoch and the Figure of Enoch. A Bibliography of Studies 1970–1988.” Revue de Qumran 14/53 (1989): 149–74. Publications in Dutch • “Dode Zeerollen.” Pages 30–31 in Fokke & Sukke kunnen het niet alleen. Catullus, 2008. • “Herleven de Dode-Zeerollen in De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling?” Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 59/4 (2005): 285–96. • “Gestalten van het Kwaad in de Dode-Zeerollen en in Qumran.” Pages 29–51, 154–56 in Kennis van het Kwaad. Zeven visies uit jodendom en christendom. Edited by Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte and Eibert Tigchelaar. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2004. • “En Henoch was niet meer …” Dialoog, tijdschrift voor Oudheidstudies 7/4 (juni 2004): 7–17. • “De Dode-Zeerollen: wat we weten na ruim vijftig jaar”; “Een kort overzicht van soorten Dode-Zeerollen”; “De bibliotheek van Qumran?”; (with M. Popović) “De Essenen”; (with F. García Martínez) “De sektarische gemeenschap van de Regel van de Gemeenschap”; “De bijbel herverteld: 4Q225, priesters, engelen en de geschiedenis”; “Een voorbeeld van wijsheidsliteratuur en leven na de dood”; “Astronomie en kalenders; horoscopen en astrologie”; “Kleding, eten en drinken”; “De Dode-Zeerollen nu.” Pages 9–47, 79–94, 133–203 in Fragmenten uit de woestijn. De Dode-Zeerollen opnieuw bekeken. Edited by Florentino García Martínez & Eibert Tigchelaar. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2003. • “Spreuken.” Pages 357–69 in De Bijbel Literair. Opbouw en gedachtegang van de bijbelse geschriften en hun onderlinge relaties. Edited by Jan Fokkelman and Wim Weren. Zoetermeer: Meinema & Kappellen: Pelckmans, 2003. • “De pseudepigrafen/apocriefen uit de periode rond het begin van onze tijdrekening”; “Literatuur.” Pages 1418–19 Internationaal Commentaar op de Bijbel. Edited by Erik Eynikel et al. Kampen: Kok; Averbode, 2001. • “Henoch en de wachters: tradities achter Genesis?” Schrift 187 (februari 2000): 17–20. • “De Dode-Zeerollen nu.” Schrift 191 (oktober 2000): 155–58. • “Shemichaza en Asaël: Verhalen over Gevallen Engelen en Speculaties over Boze Geesten (1 Henoch 6–16).” Jota 9 (1991): 18–29. • “Over een emfatisch partikel lamed in het Aramees.” Pages 1–16 in Een ernstige omissie. Edited by Hans van Gelder, Adrie Drint and Frouke L. Witteveen. Groningen, 1986. Current Research (main projects): • Biblia Qumranica project (Isaiah and Ezekiel) • Synoptic critical edition of 1 Enoch (with Loren Stuckenbruck & Stuart Weeks) • In-depth article on the Dead Sea Scrolls for the Dictionary of Early Judaism • Article on Palaeography for the Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls • Greek Influence on Early Jewish Sapiential Texts • The Qumran Aramaic Texts Presentations and Lectures (not included are Dutch-language presentations in the Netherlands) 2008 • “Aramaic Texts from Qumran and the Authoritativeness of Hebrew Scriptures” (Congress “The Authoritativeness of Scriptures in Ancient Judaism”; Groningen 29-IV-2008) 2007 • “Flesh and Spirit: Reading 4QInstruction in the Light of 1 Corinthians” (Louvain experts meeting Qumran and the New Testament; 5-XII-2007) • “Reading the Wiles of the Wicked Woman (4Q184 1) in Its Manuscript Context” (SBL Annual, San Diego 18-XI-2007) • “The New Jerusalem Text” (Nijmegen/Louvain conference “Otherworlds” 21/23-III-2007) 2006 • “How Did the Qumran Scrolls transform our view of the Canonical Process?” (4. Schwerter Qumran Tagung. Qumran und der biblische Kanon, Schwerte) 2005 • “Jewish Wisdom Literature as a Response to the Hellenistic Crises” (Vorlesungsserie Judentum und Krise, Institut für Judaistik, Wien) • “Why is There Wisdom Among the Dead Sea Scrolls? A Survey” (14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem) • “Balaam and 1 Enoch” (Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference 2005: Balaam and his Speaking Ass; Groningen) • “Some Thoughts on Alternative Approaches. A Response to James C. VanderKam’s ‘The Parables of Enoch Within the Enoch Tradition’” (Third Enoch Seminar, Camaldoli) • “Wisdom and Counter-wisdom in 4QInstruction” (Seminar for the Study of Judaism in Late Antiquity, Durham, UK) 2004 • “‘How can you say?’ and ‘Do not say!’ Reprimand and Instruction—Forms and Styles in 4QInstruction” (SBL 2004 Annual Meeting, San Antonio TX) • “Bare Feet and Holy Ground (Exodus 3.5)” (Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference 2004 in conjunction with SBL International, Groningen) • “How to Get Rid of Evil Spirits: Insights from Qumran” (SBL 2004 International Meeting / EABS, Groningen) 2003 • “The Enochic Watcher Tradition in the Pseudo-Clementines” (Groningen-Budapest Conference on the Pseudo-Clementines, Groningen) • “Evaluating the Discussions Concerning The Original Order of Chapters 91—93 and Codicological Data Pertaining to 4Q212 and Chester Beatty XII Enoch” and “Jubilees and 1 Enoch & the Issue of Transmission of Knowledge” (Second Enoch Seminar, Venice) • “The Relationship between Creation, Cosmos, and Liturgy: ‘Lights serving as Signs for Festivals’” (Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference 2003, Groningen) 2002 • “Oorsprong en functie van 1Q/4QMysteries” (Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LI, Leuven) • “The Qumran Isaiah Manuscripts and the Masoretic Text: A Case Study” (SBL Int’l 2002, Berlin) • “Physical Aspects of Being a Member of the Yahad” (SBL Int’l 2002, Berlin) • “The Giants, Sodom and Gomorrah in the Dead Sea Scrolls” (Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference, Groningen) 2001 • “Embodiments of Evil in Qumran” (SBL Int’l 2001, Rome) • “Why Did Deutero-Zechariah Quote Jeremiah?” (SBL Int’l 2001, Rome) • “The Enoch Group and the Priesthood” (First Enoch Seminar, Sesto Fiorentino) • “Seth in Sirach (Ben Sira 49:16)” (Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference, Groningen) 2000 • “The Text of the Bible and the 4Q Manuscripts of the Damascus Document” (The Text of the Hebrew Bible in Light of the Discoveries in the Judean Desert; Hampton Court, Herefordshire, UK) 1999 • “The Provenance and Character of the Apocalypse of Peter (Greek; Ethiopic): A Reconsideration” (Dutch-Hungarian Studies on Apocryphal Literature-VI, Budapest) 1998 • “The Addressees of 4QMusar le-Mebin” (Third Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo) • “Gan Eden: the Garden Motif in the Dead Sea Scrolls” (Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference, Groningen) • “4QInstruction: Material Joins, Overlaps, and Proposals for Reconstruction.” Forschungsseminar Die Weisheitstekste aus Qumran, Tübingen 1997 • “A Newly Identified 11QSerekh ha-Yaḥad Fragment (11Q29)?” (International Congress The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years after their Discovery, Jerusalem) 1996 • “Reconstructing 11Q17 Shirot ‘Olat Ha-Shabbat” (Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Provo, UT) Service Departmental, FSU Dept. of Religion Executive Committee 2008–2009 Track Committee 2008–2009 Departmental, University of Groningen Faculty Council (Chair) 2003–2006 [Faculteitsraad, voorzitter] Faculty Council 2002–2006 [Faculteitsraad] Informatics and Computer Committee (Chair) 2002–2006 Library Committee 2001–2002 Search committee Assistant Professor New Testament 2002 Discipline Advisory Board Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, 2007– Organisation 6th IOQS meeting, July 16–18, 2007 Ljubljana, Slovenia Editor Dead Sea Discoveries, April 2007– Advisory Board Revue de Qumran, 2005– Advisory Board Enoch Seminar, 2005–2007 Secretary Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2005– External examinator doctoral dissertation Helsinki, 2005 Executive secretary International Organization for Qumran Studies, 2004– Advisory Board Dead Sea Discoveries, 2004–2007 (since 2007 Editor) Associate editor Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 2004– Organisation with Florentino García Martínez of the 5th IOQS-Meeting 2004 in Groningen Consultant Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2004–2005 Consultant Universität Oldenburg on Jüdische Studien program, 2004 Board Groningen Ex oriente lux, 2003–2006 Editorial board Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2003– (since 2005 secretary; 2005–2006 book review editor) Advisory Board Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2003– SBL International Congress 2002 Berlin, Program Unit “Perceptions of Social and Ethnic Identities in Antiquity” (co-chair with Ed Noort) Organisation Themes in Biblical Narrative Congress 2002 (with Ed Noort), 2002 Editorial Team of the Biblia Qumranica, 2001– International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1997– Dissertation Committees • Co-promotor and supervisor Mladen Popović, “Reading the Human Body. Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism” (dissertation defense 9 November, 2006; University of Groningen; first promotor F. García Martínez). • Co-promotor Anke Dorman, The Blemished Body: Deformity and Disability in the Qumran Scrolls (dissertation defense 21 June, 2007; University of Groningen; first promotor F. García Martínez) • Committee Scott Cason, “And My Body Grew Strong through the Lord as if it Had Not Suffered Anything at All” (T. Job 47:8): the Disablement and Repair of the Joban Body in the Testament of Job” (dissertation defense 8 June 2007; director M. Goff) Courses Taught Florida State University, Department of Religion Early Judaism Seminar (Hasmonean Period) (REL 6298) Fall 2008 Sapiential Scrolls DIS (REL 5906-02) Fall 2008 Hebrew III / Readings Judges (HBR 2222/REL 5204) Fall 2008 Geez (REL 5906-11) Fall 2008 Hebrew IV / Readings Deuteronomy (REL 4203/5204) Spring 2008 Early Judaism: Change and Diversity (REL 4290) Spring 2008 Intermediate Hebrew (HBR 2222) / Hebrew Readings Genesis (REL 5204) Fall 2007 Introduction to the Old Testament (Honor’s Section) (REL 2210) Fall 2007 1 Enoch, Enochic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (REL 5297) Spring 2007 Biblical Aramaic (REL 3936/5292) Spring 2007 Hebrew Poetry / Readings Psalms (REL 4203) Spring 2007 Hebrew Palaeography Spring 2007 Holy Book (REL 3293) Fall 2006 Early Judaism (REL 6596) Fall 2006 Groningen, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (jointly given course with other faculty) Creation in Metaphors (G) 2005 Textual criticism and textual history (part of the course Literature of Israel and Exegesis of the Old Testament) 2002, 2004, 2005 (jointly given by faculty of Biblical Dpt) Literature of the Bible (UG) 2005, 2006 Aramaic Incantation Bowls (Reading with PhD students) 2004 Serekh ha-Yaḥad (Graduate Seminar) 2002–2003 Interpretation of Religious Texts 1b: Old Testament Exegesis 2002–2003 Literature of Israel and Exegesis of the Old Testament 2001–2002 Biblical Aramaic (PhD students) 2001–2002 Biblical Hebrew (readings with advanced students) 2001–2006 Biblical Hebrew (I and II) 1999–2001 (jointly given by faculty of Biblical Dpt) Interpretations of Old Testament Narratives 2000–2005 Liturgical and Sapiential Texts from Qumran (with F. García Martínez) 1998/1999 Poetical Literature from Qumran 1997–1998 Kampen (Netherlands), Theological University Introduction Ancient Judaism 2005 (G) Oldenburg (Germany), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Guest lecturer in course Einführung jüdische Studien, 2004 Classes on “The Judaism of the Dead Sea Scrolls” and “Magic and the Jews” (organization: Dr. Stefan Beyerle) Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuws Genootschap der Wetenschappen Society-Courses 2002 on The Dead Sea Scrolls. Courses published (in revised form) in García Martínez and Tigchelaar, Fragmenten uit de Woestijn Professional Associations Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en Vlaanderen OTW 1996– International Organization for Qumran Studies IOQS 1998– (executive secretary 2004–) Society of Biblical Literature SBL 1999– Nederlands Genootschap van Joodse Studiën NGJS 2000–2006 World Association of Jewish Studies 2005–