BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.2//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:W. Europe Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231002T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYHOUR=3;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:W. Europe Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:W. Europe Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Download PDFA conference organized by the SNSF project:Lege Jos ephum! Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ageswww.legejosephum.u nibe.chWed. 15th March - Fri. \; 17th March 2023From a modern perspect ive\, Hellenistic Judaism sits at the crossroads of Classical Greek and bi blical thought. The tracks it laid down were especially formative for Chri stianity\, shaping its historiography\, apologetics\, theology\, and philo sophy. After late antiquity\, most Christian and Jewish scholars in wester n Europe no longer knew Greek\, yet Hellenistic Judaism continued to loom large in the consciousness of both communities. This conference looks at t he reception of Hellenistic Jewish texts &ndash\; as well as ideas about H ellenistic Jews &ndash\; in the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages in wester n Europe between ca. 500 and 1700 CE. It particularly aims to examine how some of the influential figures of Hellenistic Judaism were used to create identity and draw boundaries by their later readers. Who copied\, transla ted\, and adapted Greco-Jewish texts\, and which communities let them sink into oblivion? Who claimed Hellenistic Jews as 'our ancestors' and who us ed them to illustrate theological error? How were Hellenistic Jewish texts read alongside various biblical canons &ndash\; and how were they put in relation to one another? In short\, how did Hellenistic Jewish texts and a uthors serve the construction and development of the medieval West and its shifting religious identities?This conference considers Greco-Jewish auth ors who survived in full Latin translation (like Josephus) alongside those who reached the Latin world in excerpts and citations (Artapanus\, Aristo bulus\, Philo\, the Letter of Aristeas)\, as well as the reception of the Greek-Jewish Scriptures or Septuagint. It looks at Hellenistic Jewish text s which wound up in the Christian Old and New Testaments (Wisdom of Solomo n\, the Books of Maccabees)\, and Greek-speaking Jews who were (mis-)ident ified as authors of parts of Christian Bibles\, like Philo (often consider ed author of Wisdom of Solomon) and Josephus (to whom several books of Mac cabees were ascribed)\, alongside other Latin texts with origins in Hellen istic Judaism (e.g. Ps-Philo Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum). It also welco mes proposals which put the afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism in comparativ e perspective by drawing parallels with the afterlife of pagan and Christi an writers. \;Abstracts of ca. 300 words should be sent to Anthony Ell is (Anthony.Ellis@kps.unibe.ch) by the 15th of September. Talks are welcom e in German\, English\, French\, Spanish\, and Italian. Travel expenses an d accommodation costs will be covered. DTEND:20220915T215900Z DTSTAMP:20240329T062558Z DTSTART:20220915T215800Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:[CFP Conference] The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaismin We stern Europe UID:RFCALITEM638472903587777125 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
A conference organized by the SNSF pr
oject:
Lege Josephum! Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ag
es
www.le
gejosephum.unibe.ch
Wed. 15th March - Fri. \; 17th March 2023
From a modern perspective\, Hellenistic Judais m sits at the crossroads of Classical Greek and biblical thought. The trac ks it laid down were especially formative for Christianity\, shaping its h istoriography\, apologetics\, theology\, and philosophy. After late antiqu ity\, most Christian and Jewish scholars in western Europe no longer knew Greek\, yet Hellenistic Judaism continued to loom large in the consciousne ss of both communities. This conference looks at the reception of Hellenis tic Jewish texts &ndash\; as well as ideas about Hellenistic Jews &ndash\; in the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages in western Europe between ca. 500 and 1700 CE. It particularly aims to examine how some of the influential figures of Hellenistic Judaism were used to create identity and draw bound aries by their later readers. Who copied\, translated\, and adapted Greco- Jewish texts\, and which communities let them sink into oblivion? Who clai med Hellenistic Jews as 'our ancestors' and who used them to illustrate th eological error? How were Hellenistic Jewish texts read alongside various biblical canons &ndash\; and how were they put in relation to one another? In short\, how did Hellenistic Jewish texts and authors serve the constru ction and development of the medieval West and its shifting religious iden tities?
This conference considers Greco-Jewish authors who survived in full Latin translation (like Josephus) alongside those who re ached the Latin world in excerpts and citations (Artapanus\, Aristobulus\, Philo\, the Letter of Aristeas)\, as well as the reception of the Greek-J ewish Scriptures or Septuagint. It looks at Hellenistic Jewish texts which wound up in the Christian Old and New Testaments (Wisdom of Solomon\, the Books of Maccabees)\, and Greek-speaking Jews who were (mis-)identified a s authors of parts of Christian Bibles\, like Philo (often considered auth or of Wisdom of Solomon) and Josephus (to whom several books of Maccabees were ascribed)\, alongside other Latin texts with origins in Hellenistic J udaism (e.g. Ps-Philo Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum). It also welcomes pro posals which put the afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism in comparative persp ective by drawing parallels with the afterlife of pagan and Christian writ ers. \;
Abstracts of ca. 300 words should be sent to Anthony Ellis (Anthony.Ellis @kps.unibe.ch) by the 15th of September. Talks are welcome in German\, English\, French\, Spanish\, and Italian. Travel expenses and accommodati on costs will be covered. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR