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Room 1. Shrines and Cults 9.00. Aude Busine: “Bishop Markellos And 1 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS TUESDAY AUGUST 9 (Final 23.7.11) Room 1. Shrines and Cults 9.00. Aude Busine: “Bishop Markellos and the Destruction of the Temple of Zeus at Apamea” 9.20. Mikhail Kazakov: “Types of Location of Christian Churches in the Christianizing Roman Empire” 9.40. Katharina Heyden: The Bethesda Sarcophagi: Testimonies of Holy Land Piety in the Western Theodosian Empire” 10.00. Petr Balcarek: “The Cult of the Holy Wisdom in Byzantine Palestine” 11.20. Silvia Margutti: “The Power of the Relics: Theodosius I and the Head of John the Baptist in Constantinople” 11.40. Eileen Rubery: “What can the Alexandrian Cult of the Medical Saint Cyrus, Centred in the Church of S. Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum, Tell us about the Cults of Medical Saints and the Care of the Sick in Byzantine Rome?” 12.00. Georgia Frank: “Gazing upon the Feet: the Ascension of Jesus in Fourth and Fifth-Century Preaching and Pilgrimage” 12.20. Christine Shepardson: “Apollo’s Charred Remains: Making Meaning in Fourth-Century Antioch” 12.40. Alberto Rigolio:”From ‘Sacrifice to the Gods’ to the ‘Fear of God’. Can Syriac Translations of Greek Literature Contribute to the Study of Early Christian Culture?” Room 1. Images of the Female 2.20. Virginia Burrus: “The Virgin, her Mother and the Virgin Mother: Mariology in the Life of St Helia” 2.40. Brooke Nelson:” Fire and Water: Contextualising Images of the Virgin Mary in the Patristic Era” 3.00. Livia Neureiter: “Christian Wonderwomen? Effective Annunciation in the Apocryphal Acts of Apostles” 3.20. David Meconi: “Theotokos and Theosis in Alexandria and Antioch” 2 ------------------------------------------------------------ Room 6. Eusebius of Caesarea 9.00. James Corke-Webster: “A Literary Historian: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Martyrs of Lyons” 9.20. Michael Simmons: “Universalism in Eusebius of Caesarea: the Soteriological Use of ‘the Divine Saviour of us all” in Book III of the Theophany” 9.40. Cordula Bandt: “Some Remarks on Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms” 10.00. David DeVore: “Eusebius’ un-Josephan History: Two Portraits of Philo of Alexandria and the Sources of Ecclesiastical Historiography” 11.20. Martin Wallraff: “The Canon Tables of the Psalms: an Unknown Work of Eusebius of Caesarea” 11.40. Satoshi Toda: “Eusebiana Syriaca: A Study in the Syriac Translation of the Works of Eusebius of Caesarea” 12.00. Clayton Coombs: “Literary Device or Legitimate Diversity: Assessing Eusebius’ Use of the Optative Mood in Quaestiones ad Marinum” 12.20. Gregory Robbins: “’Number Determinate is Kept Concealed’ (Dante, Paradiso XXIX.126-145): Eusebius and the Transformation of the List (Ecclesiastical History III.25)” 12.40. Konstantinos Georgiadis: “Eusebius of Caesarea, the Father of Byzantine Iconoclasm according to the records of the Seventh Oecumenical Council” Room 6. Gnostic 2.20. Bernard Pouderon: “Regard et procreation: de la medicine de bonne femme à la cosmologie gnostique” 2.40. Benjamin Dunning: “Tripartite Anthropologies and the Limits of the Human in Valentinian Christian Creation Myths” 3.00. Richard Vaggione: “Who were Mani’s Greeks? ‘Greek Bread’ in the Cologne Mani Codex” 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 7. Early Byzantine 9.00. Brenda Fitch Fairaday: “The Prayers of the Humble Romanos: a Comparative Study in Prosody and Style” 9.20. Thomas Arentzen: “’Your virginity shines’: the Virgin Conception in Annunciation Hymn I by Romanos the Melodist” 9.40. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen: “Money in the Meadow: Conversion and Coin in John Moschus’ Pratum Spirituale” 10.00. Richard Barrett: “’Let us put away all earthly care: Mysticism and the Cherubikon of the Byzantine Rite in Late Antiquity” 11.20. Derek Krueger: “The Recasting of the Divine Liturgy as a Penitential Rite in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries” 11.40. Christopher Bonura: “The Man and the Myth: Did Heraclius Know the Legend of the Last Roman Emperor?” 12.00. Joseph Steineger: “John of Damascus on the Simplicity of God” 12.20. Scott Ables: “Did John of Damascus Modify his Sources in the De fide orthodoxa?” Room 7. Ecclesiastical Discipline 2.20. Barry Craig: “Breaking of Bread in the Lord’s Supper Traditions” 2. 40. Felix Albrecht: “A Hitherto Unknown Witness for the Apostolic Constitutions in Uncial Script” 3.00. Georg Schoellgen: “Pseudapostilische Kirchenordnung und Synode: der Fall der Apostolischen Konstitutionen” 3.20. Anders Ekenberg: “The Prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions 7.25-26” 3.40. Donna Hawk-Reinhard: “Cyril of Jerusalem’s Sacramental Theôsis” 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 8. Early Christian Syria 9.00. Nils Arne Pedersen: “New Light on the Origins of the Legend of Addai” 9.20. Ute Possekel: “The Christology of Bardaisan of Edessa” 9.40. Elena Narinskaya: “The Shepherd who Became a Lamb: Eucharistic Theology in Ephrem the Syrian’s Poetic Hymns” 11.20. Yifat Monnickendam: “Midrashic Methods in Ephrem’s Commentary to the Diatessaron” 11.40. Jobi Patterupampil: “Regula Fidei in St Ephrem’s Sermones de Fide IV and Hymni de Fide VI” 12.00. Philippus Botha: “The Exegesis and Polemical Use of Psalm 110 in the Pseudo-Ephremitic Sermon on Palm Sunday (Ephrem the Syrian, Sermones II.3)” 12.20. Hannah Hunt: “’Clothed in the Body’: The Garment of Flesh and the Garment of Glory in Early Syrian Anthropology” 12.40. Anthony Gelston: “A Fragmentary Sixth-Century East Syrian Anaphora” ------------------------------------------------------- Room 9. Ambrose of Milan 9.00. Melissa Markauskas: “Bishops, Heresy and the Law: Ambrose of Milan, Governor and Bishop, and the Mechanics of Enforcing Orthodoxy” 9.20. Stan Rosenberg: “Nature and the Natural World in Ambrose’s Hexaemeron” 9.40. Jan den Boeft: “Bishop Ambrose on Singing as a Support of Mental Health” 10.00. György Heidl: “Early Christian Imagery of a virga virtutis and Ambrose’s Theology of the Sacraments” 11.20. Finbarr Clancy: “The Eucharist in St Ambrose’s Commentaries on the Psalms” 5 11.40. Camille Gerzaguet: “Ambroise de Milan: l’exil et le De fuga saeculi” 12.00. Brian Dunkle: “Qui credidit salvus erit: Scripture and Creed in Ambrose’s Iam surgit hora tertia” 12.20. Marten Van Willigen: "Ambrose as Inspiring Model for Augustine" 12.40. Maria Doerfler: “Keeping it in the Family: the Law and the Law in Ambrose of Milan” Room 9. Goths and “Arians” 2.20. Brendan Wolfe: “The Theology of the Gothic Commentary on the Gospel of John” 2.40. Claudia Dobrinski: “Places where Arians and Catholics Co-existed – the Artificial and Archaeological Inheritance” 3.00. Jonathan Stanflll: “John Chrysostom’s Gothic Parish and the Politics of Space” 3.20. Georgij Zakharov: “Théologie de l’image chez Germinius de Sirmium” . ------------------------------------------------------------------ Room 10. Fiction and Apocrypha 9.00. David Reis: “Peripatetic Pedagogues: Travel and Transgression in Early Christian Fiction” 9.20. Nicole Kelley: “Don’t touch that wafer (or that hymen!)’ Lameness as Divine Punishment in Christian Apocryphal Texts” 9.40. Kristi Upson-Saia: “The Angry Young Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas” 10.00. Marek Starowieyski: “La figure de St Paul dans les apocryphes” 11.20. Charlotte Touati: “A ‘Kerygma of Peter’ behind the Apocalypse of Peter, the Pseudo-Clementine Romance and the Eclogae Propheticae of Clement of Alexandria” 11.40. Thomas O’Loughlin: “The Proto-Evangelion of James: A Case of Gospel Harmonization in the Second Century” 12.00. Oliver Ehlen: “Cur et quando venisti? Die sogennante ‘Quo vadis Szene’ und das Martyrium Petri” 6 12.20. Simon Mimouni: “Les traditions patristiques sur la famille de Jesus: retour sur un problem doctrinale du IVe siècle” 12.40. Julian Petkov: “The Apocalypse of John Chrysostom: Techniques of Camouflage in Apocryphal Literature” ---------------------------------------------------------------- Room 11. Cappadocians in Context 9.00. Anne Karahan: “The Image of God in Byzantine Cappadocia and the Issue of God’s Supreme Transcendence” 9.20. Giulio Maspero: “The Spirit Manifested by the Son in Cappadocian Thought” 9.40. Verna Harrison: “Did Irenaeus Influence Gregory Nazianzen’s Theological Anthropology?” 10.00. Susanna Elm: “Laughter and the Heretic: Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa on Eunomius” 11.20. Gregory Hillis: “Pneumatology and Soteriology according to Gregory of Nazianzus and Cyril of Alexandria” 11.40. Erin Galgay: “The Relationship of Philosophical Discourse to the Final Words of Macrina” 12.00. Nathan Howard: “The Vita Macrinae as Theological Invective” 12.20. Vasiliki Chatzirazoglou: “Juvenile delinquency and Basil the Great” Room 12. Biblical 9.00. Peter Widdicombe: “Noah and Foxes: Song of Songs 2.15 and the Patristic Legacy in Text and Art” 9.20. Sean Hill: “Genesis Six in Early Christian Racial Discourse” 9.40. Pascale Farago-Bermon: “Surviving the Disaster: the Use of _psyche_ in 1 Pet.3.20” 10.00. Paola Francesca Moretti: “Not only ianua diaboli: A Short Overview on the Role Played by the Bible in the Latin Fathers’ Discourse about Women” 11.20. Catherine Tkacz: “Mystica signa crucis: The Widow of Zarephath as a Type of Christ” 7 11.40. Susan Graham: “Two Mount Zions: Fourth-Century Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic” 12.00. Mark Sheridan: “’Homer hints and so does Moses’: The Verb ainittomai in Early Christian Exegesis” 12.20. Francesco Pieri: “Origen on First Corinthians – Homilies or Commentary?” 12.40. Andreas Merkt: “ Before the Birth of Purgatory” ------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 14.
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