Early Christian Studies Workshop

Psalter and New Testament Manuscript (olim Pantocrator 49): St. Paul with St. Thecla and St. Timothy (Constantinople, ca. 1084)

Spring 2013

All meetings take place in Swift 208 at 4:30, unless otherwise noted.

• April 8 – Allison Gray (Chicago) – “Encounters with a Homicidal Bath Demon: Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus.“

• April 22 – Romulus Stefanut (Chicago) – “Theology and Teleology in Philo of Alexandria: the Puzzling Case of the Therapeutae.“

• May 6 – John T. Fitzgerald (Notre Dame) - “The Ancient Mediterranean Wine Industry, Intoxication, and Various Problems in Early Christian Communities.”

• May 28 - Elizabeth A. Clark (Duke) - “‘Rome’ in the Nineteenth-Century Protestant Imaginary: American Professors, Ancient ‘Pagans’, and Early Christianity.”

• June 3 – David Horrell (Exeter) – “Honor Everyone” (1 Pet 2.17): The Social Strategy of 1 Peter and its Significance for Early Christianity.“

Winter 2013

• January 14 – Michael F. Pope (Chicago) – “Declamation and the Arena: Infamia, Reputation, and Redemption.”

• January 28 – Troy Martin (Saint Xavier) – “Poets, Playwrights, Plastic Artists, Physicians, Physiologists, Philo, and Paul on Peritomē.”

• February 11 – Justin Howell (Chicago) –“The Ruling Power within the Beelzebul Controversy of Luke 11:14-23.”

• February 25 - Hans-Dieter Betz (Chicago) –“Paul on Self-sufficiency (Phil 4:11-13).”

• March 18 – Brandon Cline (Chicago) – “Justin Martyr’s Apologies and Ancient Petitions.”

Fall 2012

• October 4 – Holger Zellentin (Nottingham) – “Rabbinic Historiography as Response to Christian Triumphalism: The Temple’s Destruction in Aramaic, Syriac and Greek Discourse.”

• October 22 – Young-Ho Park (Chicago) –Dissertation Defense: ”Paul’s Ekklesia as a Civic Assembly.”

• November 2 – Special Event: Guided Tour of the Exhibition “Swiss Treasures: From Biblical Papyrus and Parchment to Erasmus, Zwingli, Calvin, and Barth.” (2 pm in the Regenstein Library Special Collections)

• November 13 - David C. Parker, Klaus Wachtel, Ulrich Schmid (Birmingham & Münster) –“Editing the Greek New Testament for the Twenty-First Century.”

• November 26 – Brandon Cline (Chicago) – “Teaching Introduction to the New Testament.” (A special pedagogy session. Part of the Divinity School’s “Craft of Teaching” program.)