PHILADELPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
in its 45th year
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
under the auspices of the
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Religious Studies
201 Logan Hall
with support from
the Penn Humanities Forum
TOPIC FOR 2007-2008: "Tracing the Patterns, (Un/Re-)Weaving the Threads"
co-chairs: Annette Yoshiko Reed and Robert Alan Kraft
secretary: Harry Tolley (University of Pennsylvania)
webmaster: Jay C. Treat (University of Pennsylvania)
For this, the 45th year of the PSCO, our aim is to take stock of current
scholarship in early Jewish and Christian traditions and their transmission
and diffusion across a broad range of geographical and cultural contexts in
Late Antiquity. To facilitate discussion between specialists in different
subfields, we have chosen to define our sessions by geographical area,
rather than by religious tradition, theme, or textual corpus. By following
the "threads" of various traditions through regional trajectories, we hope
to assess, not only our literary remains, but also archaeological evidence,
inscriptions, etc.
In our initial meeting, John Reeves, Bill Adler, and Max Grossman shared
thoughts on current directions and methodological concerns in the study of
early Judaism and early Christianity. Following up on this discussion, the
second meeting of the PSCO focused on the Syro-Palestinian area, with
guests Hayim Lapin and Lee Levine. The third session (in San Diego)
welcomed Malcolm Choat and AnnMarie Luijendijk (plus Peter
Artz-Graber, briefly) on Egypt.
The fourth PSCO meeting is scheduled for 7 February 2008, with the focus
on Asia Minor. Opening remarks and observations will be made by two of
our own long-time participants,
Professor Ross Kraemer (Brown University -- see
http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10128)
and Professor Vasiliki Limberis (Temple University -- see
http://www.temple.edu/religion/faculty/limberis.html).
Appended below is a long list of readings provided by the presenters that
represent a variety of approaches to the study Judaism and Christianity in
Cappadocia and Anatolia in the early centuries of the common era and reflect
their respective interests.
For a quick taste of how our presenters approach some of the relevant
issues, perhaps look first at their respective treatments as well as at the
titles (at least) of the listed readings:
R. S. Kraemer, review of Paul Trebilco, Jewish Communities in Asia Minor
(Cambridge, 1991); IOUDAIOS Reviews
ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/4.1994/trebilco.kraemer.021
V. Limberis, "The Eyes infected by Evil: Basil of Caesarea's
Homily, On Envy," HTR 84.2 (1991); available online through JSTOR for those
of you who have access --
http://www.jstor.org/view/00178160/ap050317/05a00050/0
Suggested readings (several of which can be found online):
W. M. Ramsay and G. L. Bell, The Thousand and One Churches
(London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909).
G. Frank, "The Pilgrim's Gaze in the Age before Icons," in R.
S. Nelson, ed., Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance
(Cambridge 2000).
Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia, Land, Men, and Gods in Asia
Minor, v. 2, The Rise of the Church (Oxford, 1993).
R. Van Dam's excellent trilogy: Kingdom of Snow : Roman
Rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press 2002); Families and Friends
in late Roman Cappadocia (2003); Becoming Christian: the
Conversion of Roman Cappadocia (2003).
Derek Krueger, "Writing and the Liturgy of Memory in Gregory
of Nyssa's Life of Macrina," JECS 8.4 (2000).
S. Elm, Virgins of God: The making of Asceticism in Late
Antiquity (Oxford, 1994).
S. Metivier, La Cappadoce IVe-VI Siecle: Une histoire
provinciale de l"Empire romain d'Orient (Paris 2005).
P. Trebilco, Jewish Communities in Asia Minor (Cambridge, 1991)
W. Ameling, ed., Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis, vol. 2: Asia Minor
(Mohr-Siebeck 2004)
B. Lifshitz, Donateurs et Fondateurs dans les synagogues juives (Paris,
1967), nos. 12-37.
J. Reynolds and R. Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias
(Cambridge, 1987).
L. Robert, Nouvelles Inscriptions de Sardes (Paris, 1964).
J. H. Kroll, 'The Greek Inscriptions of the Sardis Synagogue,' HTR 94.1
(2001), 3-127.
F. M. Cross, 'The Hebrew Inscriptions from Sardis,' HTR 95 (2002), 3-19.
E. Miranda, 'La comunite giudaica di Hierapolis di Frigia,' EA 31 (1999),
109-56.
T. Rajak and D. Noy, 'Archisynagogoi: Office, Title and Social Status in the
Greco-Jewish Synagogue,' JRS 83 (1993), 75 -93.
A. Chaniotis, 'The Jews of Aphrodisias: New Evidence and Old Problems,' SCI
21 (2002), 209-42.
F. Millar, 'Christian Emperors, Christian Church and the Jews of the
Diaspora in the Greek East, CE 379-450,' JJS 55 (2004), 1-24.
Gary Gilbert, "Jews in Imperial Administration and its Significance for
Dating the Jewish Donor Inscription from Aphrodisias," JSJ 35, no. 2 (April,
2004, 169-84);
Dietrich-Alex Koch, "The God-fearers between Facts and Fiction: Two
theosebeis-inscriptions from Aphrodisias and Their Bearing for the New
Testament," Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 60:1 (2006),
62-90.
The remaining sessions of the PSCO are tentatively scheduled as follows:
45.5 late February or early March -- Western Roman Empire
45.6 mid to late March -- Persia and East of Syro-Palestine
45.7 mid to late April -- Byzantium and under Islam
**See the PSCO Web page for further details
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/C
in its 45th year
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
under the auspices of the
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Religious Studies
201 Logan Hall
with support from
the Penn Humanities Forum
TOPIC FOR 2007-2008: "Tracing the Patterns, (Un/Re-)Weaving the Threads"
co-chairs: Annette Yoshiko Reed and Robert Alan Kraft
secretary: Harry Tolley (University of Pennsylvania)
webmaster: Jay C. Treat (University of Pennsylvania)
For this, the 45th year of the PSCO, our aim is to take stock of current
scholarship in early Jewish and Christian traditions and their transmission
and diffusion across a broad range of geographical and cultural contexts in
Late Antiquity. To facilitate discussion between specialists in different
subfields, we have chosen to define our sessions by geographical area,
rather than by religious tradition, theme, or textual corpus. By following
the "threads" of various traditions through regional trajectories, we hope
to assess, not only our literary remains, but also archaeological evidence,
inscriptions, etc.
In our initial meeting, John Reeves, Bill Adler, and Max Grossman shared
thoughts on current directions and methodological concerns in the study of
early Judaism and early Christianity. Following up on this discussion, the
second meeting of the PSCO focused on the Syro-Palestinian area, with
guests Hayim Lapin and Lee Levine. The third session (in San Diego)
welcomed Malcolm Choat and AnnMarie Luijendijk (plus Peter
Artz-Graber, briefly) on Egypt.
The fourth PSCO meeting is scheduled for 7 February 2008, with the focus
on Asia Minor. Opening remarks and observations will be made by two of
our own long-time participants,
Professor Ross Kraemer (Brown University -- see
http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10128)
and Professor Vasiliki Limberis (Temple University -- see
http://www.temple.edu/religion/faculty/limberis.html).
Appended below is a long list of readings provided by the presenters that
represent a variety of approaches to the study Judaism and Christianity in
Cappadocia and Anatolia in the early centuries of the common era and reflect
their respective interests.
For a quick taste of how our presenters approach some of the relevant
issues, perhaps look first at their respective treatments as well as at the
titles (at least) of the listed readings:
R. S. Kraemer, review of Paul Trebilco, Jewish Communities in Asia Minor
(Cambridge, 1991); IOUDAIOS Reviews
ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/4.1994/trebilco.kraemer.021
V. Limberis, "The Eyes infected by Evil: Basil of Caesarea's
Homily, On Envy," HTR 84.2 (1991); available online through JSTOR for those
of you who have access --
http://www.jstor.org/view/00178160/ap050317/05a00050/0
Suggested readings (several of which can be found online):
W. M. Ramsay and G. L. Bell, The Thousand and One Churches
(London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909).
G. Frank, "The Pilgrim's Gaze in the Age before Icons," in R.
S. Nelson, ed., Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance
(Cambridge 2000).
Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia, Land, Men, and Gods in Asia
Minor, v. 2, The Rise of the Church (Oxford, 1993).
R. Van Dam's excellent trilogy: Kingdom of Snow : Roman
Rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press 2002); Families and Friends
in late Roman Cappadocia (2003); Becoming Christian: the
Conversion of Roman Cappadocia (2003).
Derek Krueger, "Writing and the Liturgy of Memory in Gregory
of Nyssa's Life of Macrina," JECS 8.4 (2000).
S. Elm, Virgins of God: The making of Asceticism in Late
Antiquity (Oxford, 1994).
S. Metivier, La Cappadoce IVe-VI Siecle: Une histoire
provinciale de l"Empire romain d'Orient (Paris 2005).
P. Trebilco, Jewish Communities in Asia Minor (Cambridge, 1991)
W. Ameling, ed., Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis, vol. 2: Asia Minor
(Mohr-Siebeck 2004)
B. Lifshitz, Donateurs et Fondateurs dans les synagogues juives (Paris,
1967), nos. 12-37.
J. Reynolds and R. Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias
(Cambridge, 1987).
L. Robert, Nouvelles Inscriptions de Sardes (Paris, 1964).
J. H. Kroll, 'The Greek Inscriptions of the Sardis Synagogue,' HTR 94.1
(2001), 3-127.
F. M. Cross, 'The Hebrew Inscriptions from Sardis,' HTR 95 (2002), 3-19.
E. Miranda, 'La comunite giudaica di Hierapolis di Frigia,' EA 31 (1999),
109-56.
T. Rajak and D. Noy, 'Archisynagogoi: Office, Title and Social Status in the
Greco-Jewish Synagogue,' JRS 83 (1993), 75 -93.
A. Chaniotis, 'The Jews of Aphrodisias: New Evidence and Old Problems,' SCI
21 (2002), 209-42.
F. Millar, 'Christian Emperors, Christian Church and the Jews of the
Diaspora in the Greek East, CE 379-450,' JJS 55 (2004), 1-24.
Gary Gilbert, "Jews in Imperial Administration and its Significance for
Dating the Jewish Donor Inscription from Aphrodisias," JSJ 35, no. 2 (April,
2004, 169-84);
Dietrich-Alex Koch, "The God-fearers between Facts and Fiction: Two
theosebeis-inscriptions from Aphrodisias and Their Bearing for the New
Testament," Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 60:1 (2006),
62-90.
The remaining sessions of the PSCO are tentatively scheduled as follows:
45.5 late February or early March -- Western Roman Empire
45.6 mid to late March -- Persia and East of Syro-Palestine
45.7 mid to late April -- Byzantium and under Islam
**See the PSCO Web page for further details
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/C