Judaism & the Jewish World: Seminars & Events
Early 4th-century sarcophagus
from Rome with menorah
SPECIAL LECTURE
Oded Irshai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
"Blood in the Streets: Jewish-Christian Violence
in Early Fifth-Century Alexandria"
Wednesday 29 May 2013 at 5pm
The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford
Andy Hilkens (University of Ghent):
‘A Late Antique Inheritance: The Anonymous Chronicle to the Year 1234 and its use of the Book of Jubilees’
Monday 20 May 2013 (Week 5) at 5pm
Faculty Room, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane
An unlikely, yet crucial, witness for the study of the late-antique afterlife of the Jewish
pseudepigraphical Book of Jubilees (second century BC) is the Anonymous Syriac Chronicle
to the Year 1234. This chronicle not only preserves extensive fairly literal excerpts from this
work, but also adaptations of some of its traditions, which probably reached the Chronicler
via one or more Syriac chronographic sources. The paper will investigate the origin of these
adaptations, leading to the Greek chronicles of Hippolytus of Rome (170/180–235 AD) and
Annianus of Alexandria (fl. Fifth century AD), and the Syriac chronicle of the enigmatic
Andronicus (perhaps of the sixth century AD).
Patristic and Late Antique Seminar
Tuesdays, 4.30–6.00pm in Trinity Term 2013
Seminar Room, Theology Faculty Annexe, 41 St Giles', Oxford
23 April (Week 1)
Professor Gillian Clark (Emerita, Bristol):
Deorum cultores: Augustine’s Pagans
30 April (Week 2)
Dr Mark Edwards (Oxford):
Some Religious Phenomena of the Age of Constantine
7 May (Week 3)
Justin Grove (Oxford):
An Apology for an Apologist: in Humiliation or Humility? Assessing Augustine’s Epistemological Project within De Trinitate
14 May (Week 4)
Scott Ables (Oxford):
Tradition in John of Damascus: a Creative and Adaptive Orthodoxy
21 May (Week 5)
Dr Julia Hudson (Oxford):
Augustine on Christ and History in De Trinitate
28 May (Week 6)
Professor Guy Stroumsa (Oxford):
Judaeo-Christianity and the Origins of Islam
4 June (Week 7)
Dr Elena Ene D-Vasilescu (Oxford):
Gregory Nazianzen on ‘the manner of generation’
11 June (Week 8)
Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick (Oxford):
Biblical Interpretation and the Survival of Paganism in Late Antique Palestine
Convener: Dr Stan Rosenberg
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
Tuesdays, 2.30–4pm in Trinity Term 2013
Oriental Institute
The seminars in Weeks 2, 6 & 8 are those that relate to Late Antiquity
30 April (Week 2)
Professor Jim Davila (St Andrews):
Translating the Hekhalot literature
7 May (Week 3)
David Friedman (Wolfson):
Josephus on the Jews’ Egyptian origins
14 May (Week 4)
Jonathan Davies (Lady Margaret Hall):
Josephus, Rome and Divine Intervention: the case of Gaius Caligula
21 May (Week 5)
Professor John Barclay (Durham):
Justice and Mercy: 4 Ezra and the Second Temple debate concerning Divine Grace
28 May (Week 6)
Dr Oded Irshai (Hebrew University):
The paradigm of late antique rabbinization
11 June (Week 8)
Dr Aron Sterk (Manchester):
Jews in the Latin West in Late Antiquity: forgotten communities and texts
Conveners: Martin Goodman, Geza Vermes, and Alison Salvesen