Early Christian Studies Workshop

(Athen. Nat. Lib. Cod. 2251 fol. 148v 13th-14th c. NT codex)

Spring 2012 Schedule:

• April 2 – Prof. J. Albert Harrill (Indiana University) - “Contextualizing the Ephesian Haustafeln in ‘Magical’ Defixiones: A Study in Social Control.”
  

• April 23 – Patricia Duncan - “Exegeting Border Lines: the case of Matthew’s Parable of the Wedding Feast (Matt 22:1-14) in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies.”
  

• April 30 –Richard Zaleski - “Moses’ Theophany on the Damascus Road in Gregory of Nyssa’s De vita Mosis.”

• May  14 – Prof. David Brakke (Indiana University) - “Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon.”

• June 4 – Prof. Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Topic TBA
  

Winter 2012 Schedule:

• January 9 – Young-Ho Park – “Paul’s Ekklesia as a Civic Assembly.”

• January 23 - Michael Pope – “Noble Deaths, Inspirational Jugulation, and Taking It Like a Man: Spectacle Violence as Philosophical Exemplarity and the Lukan Passion”

• February 6 – Dr. Benjamin Schliesser (Zürich University) - ” The Dialectics of Faith and Doubt in Paul “

• February 20 – Jonathan Soyars  – “Scribal Redaction and Theological Tendency in the D (05) Text of the Gospel of John”

• March 5 – Cameron Ferguson – “Romans 16 Revisited”

Fall 2011 Schedule:

• October 17 – Dr. Robert Matthew Calhoun (Chicago) - “A Ritual Function for the Gospel of Mark?”
  

•  November 14 – Robyn Whitaker  – “Seeing the Absent God: Ekphrastic Spectacle and Divine Worship in Revelation 4:1-11″

• November 18 (FRIDAY) – Prof. Dr. Volker Henning Drecoll (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) - event cosponsored by the Divinity School

• Seminar: “Augustine of Hippo” (9:00-12:00 am, Swift Hall, Room 200)
  
• Lecture: “Augustine on Manichaeism” (4:30-6:00 pm, Swift Hall, Room 200)
  

• November 30 (Wednesday) - Prof. John Scheid (College de France) – “Was Ancestral Roman Religion Empty and Meaningless?”

• December 5 - David DeMarco - “The presentation and reception of Basil’s Hexaemeron in Gregory’s Hexaemeron”