Session 2.2.18.
Wednesday August 4, 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Lived Scriptures in Late Antiquity
Chair: Susanna Asikainen, University of Helsinki
- Introduction - Susanna Asikainen, University of Helsinki (10 min)
- Women as Interpreters of Scriptures in Late Antiquity: The Case of Marcella - Outi Lehtipuu, University of Helsinki (20 min)
- Imagined and Lived Books in the Margins: The Case of the Shepherd of Hermas - Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, University of Oslo (20 min)
- Short break (10 min)
- Detecting the Agency of Widows in Late Antiquity - Maik Patzelt, University of Osnabrück (20 min)
- Story of the Mother and her Seven Sons in Origen’s Writings: Revisiting Third-Century Caesarean Horizons -
- Anna-Liisa Rafael, University of Helsinki (20 min)
- Short break (10 min)
- Response - Valérie Nicolet, Protestant Institute of Theology, Paris (10 min)
- Discussion (20 min)
Session 3.1.9.
Thursday August 5, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Scriptural Traditions and Biblical Receptions in Late Antiquity
Chair: Outi Lehtipuu, University of Helsinki
- ֵHe brought Israel out with silver and gold (Ps 105:37): The Circulation of a:וַיּוֹצ Motif in Late Biblical Books and Extrabiblical Sources - Hava Guy, David Yellin College (25 min)
- Discussion (10 min) + short break (5 min)
- Gen 1:26-27 Reinterpreted by Mani and his Followers - Evgenia Moiseeva, Salzburg University (25 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- Break (30 min)
- Lived Virginities Meet Scriptural Virgins: Varied Virgin Wisdom and the Parable about the Ten Virgins (Matt 25:1-13) - Ellen Aasland Reinertsen, University of Oslo (25 min)
- Discussion (10 min) + short break 5 min
- Lived Scriptures in Ancient Caesarea - Rota Stone, University of Latvia (25 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- Concluding discussion (10 min)