[Antiquitas] Workshop: Kings and Power: Exploring Jewish Texts in their Hellenistic Contexts -- REGISTRATION EXTENDED

[Jokiranta, Jutta M]

<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/74907/lomake.html>

Note -- registration extended for:

Workshop: Kings and Power: Exploring Jewish Texts in their Hellenistic Contexts / organized by CSTT



Helsinki, 3-4 December 2016

VENUE: Bookshop Arkadia, Nervanderinkatu 11


Workshop on maksuton. Ilmoittautumiset viimeistään 27.11.

Attendance is free. Registration no later than 27 November:

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/74907/lomake.html





Saturday, December 3rd

10.00-10.15 Welcome

10.15-12.15 Keynote 1 (workshop)

Joan Taylor (King's College London): Hellenistic Meals in Philo's De vita contemplativa

12.15-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-15.00 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)

Vasile Babota (Pontifical Gregorian University): Alexander Janneus as High Priest and King. Struggling Between Jewish and Hellenistic Concepts of Rule

Erkki Koskenniemi (Åbo Akademi University): Kings, Judges or Elders?

Jed Wyrick (California State University, Chico): The Peri Ioudaiôn of Artapanus as Court Literature

Simon Krause-Heiber (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): The Transformation of Power Structures in the Books of Esther

15.00-15.30 Coffee/tea served at the venue

15.30-17.30 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)

Joshua Scott (University of Michigan): Oppressive Kings as Fallen Angels: The Theological Recasting of (Jewish) Kings in the Parables of Enoch

Blazenka Scheuer (Lund University): Eminence and Gender: Hellenism at the roots of Megillah 14b?

Hanna Tervanotko (University of Helsinki & KU Leuven) and Elisa Uusimäki (University of Helsinki & Yale Divinity School): Sarah the Princess - Tracing the Hellenistic Afterlife of a Pentateuchal Female Figure

Sami Yli-Karjanmaa (University of Helsinki): Sovereignty in Transition: God vs. Pious Reason as the Absolute Ruler in 2 and 4 Maccabees

17.30-18.00 Conclusion for the first day (Tuukka Kauhanen)



Sunday, December 4th

10.00-12.00 Keynote 2 (workshop)

Katell Berthelot (CNRS - Aix-Marseille University), The Hasmonean dynasty as a type of Hellenistic Kingship

12.00-12.45 Lunch break

12.45-13.15 Short paper

Joan Taylor (King's College London), The Synagogue of the Therapeutae

13.15-14.00 Panel discussion/conclusion (Tuukka Kauhanen)



Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact

Tuukka Kauhanen (tuukka.kauhanen at helsinki.fi) or Elisa Uusimäki (elisa.uusimaki at helsinki.fi).


Warm welcome!

Jutta

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Jutta Jokiranta

Academy Research Fellow

Department of Biblical Studies

Faculty of Theology

P.O. Box 4 (Vuorikatu 3, room 435)

FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland jutta.jokiranta at helsinki.fi<mailto:jutta.jokiranta at helsinki.fi>



Team Leader of "Society and Religion in Late Second Temple Judaism"

in the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence CHANGES IN SACRED TEXTS AND TRADITIONS (CSTT)

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