Call for Papers and Sessions

Joint Session: Religion and Philosophy in Antiquity / Pseudepigrapha

1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
11/23/2024
Indigo 206 (Second Level)

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Universität Bern - Université de Berne, Presiding

Maren R. Niehoff, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Freedom in Epictetus and Philo of Alexandria (30 min)
Tag(s): Pauline Epistles - Romans (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Tosefta (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Other Rabbinic Works - Haggadic Midrashim (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature)

MARIA PAZARSKI, Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens
Freedom in the Light of Philo of Alexandria in the Treatise "Περί του πάντα σπουδαίον ελεύθερονείναι" (30 min)
Tag(s): Philo (Early Jewish Literature - Other)

Elsa Simonetti, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Freedom and salus in Seneca (30 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Latin (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Roman Empire (History & Culture)

Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen
Cosmogony, Astrology, and Determinism in 2 Enoch and Bardaisan of Edessa (30 min)
Tag(s): Apocalyptic Literature and Related Works (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Syriac (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Roman Empire (History & Culture)

Joint Session: Religion and Philosophy in Antiquity / Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives

1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
11/25/2024
28A (Upper Level East)

Leslie Baynes, Missouri State University, Presiding
Lee McDonald, Acadia Divinity College
The Notion of Inspiration in Classical, Hellenistic Jewish, and Early Christianity (25 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Early Christian Literature (Early Christian Literature - Other), Philo (Early Jewish Literature - Other)

Najeeb T Haddad, Notre Dame of Maryland University
The Hellenistic Jewish Speculative Tradition: Philo, Paul, and Divine Inspiriation (25 min)
Tag(s): Philo (Early Jewish Literature - Other), Pauline Epistles (Biblical Literature - New Testament)

Kampotela Luc Bulundwe, University of Geneva

From Authors to Texts: Divine Inspiration (Θεόπνευστος) and the Formation of the Pauline Corpus (25 min)

Tag(s): New Testament (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Philo (Early Jewish Literature - Other), Pauline Epistles - 2 Timothy (Biblical Literature - New Testament)

Isaac Hedstrom, Saint Louis University
Scripture and the Divine Persons: Inspiration in Nyssian Apophatism (25 min)
Tag(s): Early Christian Literature (Early Christian Literature - Other)

Hindy Najman, University of Oxford and Elizabeth Stell, Oxford University
Pseudepigrapha and Inspired Aspirations (25 min)
Tag(s): Biblical Interpretations (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Apocrypha (Early Christian Literature - Apocrypha), Comparative Approaches (Interpretive Approaches)

Athanasios Despotis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
The Logos and Inspiration According to Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John (25 min)
Tag(s): Gospels - John (Biblical Literature - New Testament)

4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
11/24/2024
Grand D (Fourth Floor)

Athanasios Despotis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Presiding

Luisa Lesage Gárriga, Universidad de Córdoba (España)
Plutarch and the Dread of the Divine (30 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Hellenistic Period (History & Culture), Theological Interpretation (Interpretive Approaches)

Constantin-Daniel Cosereanu, University of Halle
Criticism of Superstition in Seneca, Philo, and Clement of Alexandria (30 min)
Tag(s): Greece/Greek (Greco-Roman Literature), Early Christian Literature (Early Christian Literature - Other), History of Christianity (History & Culture)

Martin Meiser, Universität des Saarlandes
Deisidaimonia in Ancient Inter-religious Controversies and in Inner-Christian Parenesis (30 min)
Tag(s): Christian (Ideology & Theology), History of Christianity (History & Culture), Religious Traditions and Scriptures (History of Interpretation / Reception History / Reception Criticism)

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Universität Bern - Université de Berne and Stefano De Feo, Universität Bern - Université de Berne
Superstition and Eschatological Ideas in the Early Imperial Philosophy (30 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Greek

Clare Rothschild, Lewis University, Presiding

Travis R. Niles, Universität Bern - Université de Berne
Jesus and the Cynics: Criticizing Conventional Religion (25 min)
Tag(s): Gospels (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Comparative Approaches (Interpretive Approaches)
Discussion (5 min)

Roi Ziv, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Become My Imitators”: Paul’s Cynic Philosophy of Education in 1 Cor 1–4 (25 min)
Tag(s): Pauline Epistles - 1 Corinthians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Comparative Approaches (Interpretive Approaches)
Discussion (5 min)

Nelida Naveros Cordova, Spring Hill College
Law and Freedom: Similarities and Differences between Paul and Demetrius the Cynic (25 min)
Tag(s): Pauline Epistles (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Religio-Historical Approaches (Interpretive Approaches)
Discussion (5 min)

Susan Prince, University of Cincinnati
Anecdotes of Diogenes in Patristic Literature (25 min)
Tag(s): 1 Esdras (Biblical Literature - Deuterocanonical Works)
Discussion (5 min)

Marius Timmann Mjaaland, University of Oslo
Cynicism and Inner Freedom in Evagrios’ Theoria Physiké (30 min)
Tag(s): 1 Esdras (Biblical Literature - Deuterocanonical Works)