[Antiquitas] Workshop on Text, Ritual and Magic in Helsinki, April 14-15

[Outi Lehtipuu]

Dear friends,

a workshop on *Text, Ritual and Magic*, organized by the Centers of  
Excellence Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT) and Reason  
and Religious Recognition (RRR) will take place at the Faculty of  
Theology in Helsinki, on April 14-15, 2015.

The program includes the following talks (please find a more detailed  
program in attachment)

Tuesday, April 14 (Venue: Room 532, Vuorikatu 3, 5th floor)

10.00–10.15
Words of Welcome
10.15–11.45
Liv Ingeborg Lied (MF, Oslo): Reading texts in ritual and manuscript  
contexts: Recontextualizing 2 Baruch 72:1-73:2
12.00–13.30
Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki): Magical survivals? Late antique bishops  
and local religious practices
14.30–16.00
Kipp Davies (Agder): Miniature scripts and manuscripts: Physical  
features for classifying ritual object texts in the Judaean Desert  
scrolls
16.15–17.45
Benjamin Wold (Dublin): Mysteries and Torah in 4QInstruction
19.00
Reception (including food and drinks)

Wednesday, April 15 Venue: Faculty Room, Vuorikatu 3, 5th floor)

10.00–11.30
Miira Tuominen (Jyväskylä): Concern for non-human animals, piety and  
sacrifice in Porphyry’s ethics of On abstinence
11.45–13.15
David Shepherd (Dublin): “Now you see it, now you don’t”: The magic of  
the sotah ritual (Numbers 5) in comparative context
14.15–15.45
Nils Hallvard Korsvoll (MF Oslo): Biblical References in Syriac  
Amulets: Historiolae, identity markers or what?
16.00–17.30
Ewa Balicka-Witakowska (Uppsala): Ethiopian Magic Scrolls and Solomon  
the Magician.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Outi Lehtipuu  
outi.lehtipuu at helsinki.fi no later than April 7, at the latest.

Best, Outi Lehtipuu
-- 
Outi Lehtipuu
Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Academy Research Fellow
University Lecturer
University of Helsinki

Department of Biblical Studies
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