INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR INTERRELIGIOUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

NORMATIVE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS & THEIR AUTHORITY

INIRE-Conference Leipzig 2018, July 23-24

Venue of the Conference

Martin-Luther-Ring 3 04109 Leipzig Tram station: Neues Rathaus Conference Hall: HS1 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR Coffee Break: SR 2 INTERRELIGIOUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Lunch/Dinner: SR 1 , , and Islam: these religions rely on normative religious traditions, sometimes called ‘Holy Scriptures’. Today, late-modern or 7-24 TUESDAY post-modern societies often ask if these norma-​ tive texts are still meaningful and relevant. 09.15 am Panel 1: Church Authority and 02.45 pm Panel 3: Canonical Tradition and Normative Tradition: Medieval Linguistic Change: and Questions we will deal with in the confer- Making, Modern Unmaking Zionism ence are: What roles do “Torah”, “Bible”, and Mike Bazemore (Shaw University): Carolyn Sanzenbacher (Southampton): “Quran” play in the three monotheistic religions The Medieval Making of “Normative The Unbroken Canonical Tradition: in the past and present? How are the old texts Tradition” and Church Authority The Theology of Jewish in the interpreted today? And how are they used in re- Douay Rheims Bible ligious and political discussions? Are ‘holy texts’ Gert Pickel and Yvonne Jaeckel relevant for ‘secular people’? And what role do (Leipzig University): Hilda Nissimi (Bar-Ilan University): ‘holy texts’ play in the dialogue of religions and Declining support? Religious traditions, Canon Preserved – Language Chan- discourse in our societies? norms, and practice in the eyes of the ged? Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah citizens and Zionist/Messianic Piyyut

10.45 am Break 04.15 pm Coffee break

7-23 MONDAY 11.15 am Panel 2: Canonization and Exegesis in 04.45 pm Closing session: Decentering the 15.30 pm Opening: “The Abrahamic Religions a Secular Age Canon? Judaism and Islam and Their Bibles” Zohar Maor (Bar-Ilan University): Dirk Hartwig (Berlin-Brandenburg Leipzig University Greetings Holy Scriptures in a Secular Age: Academy of Sciences and Humanities): Canonization in Weimar Germany Narrative Dialogues. The Quran and 1. Alexander Deeg (Leipzig University): its Re-lectures of Biblical Traditions Sola scriptura!? Luther’s Epistemologi- Mulayka Laura Enriello (ISA, Milano): cal Revolution and the Question Memory Passing On and Interpretation Malachi Hacohen (Duke University): of Authority in Judaism and Christianity of Sacred Texts: an Educational Need Normative Tradition Without Canon: Rabbinic Authority, Talmudic Short break Carina Brankovic (Oldenburg University): Exegesis, and Post-Modernity “Ich finde die Bibel komisch, weil: things 2. Alberto Melloni (University of Bologna): go always wrong darin, ein wahres Bild Alexander Deeg responding: The Historical Study of the Councils unserer Existenz”: George Tabori and the Canonization Today and the Issue of Normativity: Paradigm post-Holocaust Bible in theater of Pluralism III–XXI Century Discussion 01.15 pm Lunch break Short break 07.00 pm Dinner

3. Mustafa Abu Sway (Al-Quds-University): Dinner discussion: The future of INIRE The Recited Qur’an becoming a Written Mushaf

07.00 pm Dinner