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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">Workshop on maksuton. Ilmoittautumiset viimeistään 18.11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attendance is free. Registration no later than 18 November:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/74907/lomake.html">https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/74<span lang="FI">907/lomake.html</span></a><span lang="FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop: <b>Kings and Power: Exploring Jewish Texts in their Hellenistic Contexts<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV">Helsinki, 3–4 December 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="SV">Bookshop Arkadia, Nervanderinkatu 11<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Saturday, December 3rd<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.00–10.15 Welcome<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.15–12.15 Keynote 1 (workshop)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Joan Taylor</b> (King’s College London): Hellenistic Meals in Philo’s
<i>De vita contemplativa<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12.15–13.00 Lunch break<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13.00–15.00 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vasile Babota</b> (Pontifical Gregorian University): Alexander Janneus as High Priest and King. Struggling Between Jewish and Hellenistic Concepts of Rule<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Erkki Koskenniemi</b> (Åbo Akademi University): Kings, Judges or Elders?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jed Wyrick</b> (California State University, Chico): The <i>
Peri Ioudaiôn</i> of Artapanus as Court Literature<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Simon Krause-Heiber</b> (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): The Transformation of Power Structures in the Books of Esther<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15.00–15.30 Coffee/tea served at the venue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15.30–17.30 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Joshua Scott</b> (University of Michigan): Oppressive Kings as Fallen Angels: The Theological Recasting of (Jewish) Kings in the Parables of
<i>Enoch</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Blaženka Scheuer</b> (Lund University): Eminence and Gender: Hellenism at the roots of
<i>Megillah</i> 14b?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hanna Tervanotko</b> (University of Helsinki & KU Leuven) and
<b>Elisa Uusimäki</b> (University of Helsinki & Yale Divinity School): Sarah the Princess – Tracing the Hellenistic Afterlife of a Pentateuchal Female Figure<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sami Yli-Karjanmaa</b> (University of Helsinki): Sovereignty in Transition: God vs. Pious Reason as the Absolute Ruler in 2 and 4 Maccabees<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17.30–18.00 Conclusion for the first day (<b>Tuukka Kauhanen</b>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sunday, December 4th<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.00–12.00 Keynote 2 (workshop)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Katell Berthelot</b> (CNRS – Aix-Marseille University), The Hasmonean dynasty as a type of Hellenistic Kingship<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12.00–12.45 Lunch break<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12.45–13.15 Short paper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Joan Taylor</b> (King’s College London), The Synagogue of the Therapeutae<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13.15–14.00 Panel discussion/conclusion (Tuukka Kauhanen)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">Tuukka Kauhanen (tuukka.kauhanen@helsinki.fi) or Elisa Uusimäki (elisa.uusimaki@helsinki.fi).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#767171">-- -- --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#767171">Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, ThD, MSc; Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#767171">Member of AoF Centres of Excellence in
<a href="http://cstt.fi/"><span style="color:#767171">Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#767171">and <a href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/reasonandreligiousrecognition">
<span style="color:#767171">Reason and Religious Recognition</span></a>, University of Helsinki<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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