The Rise of Early Christianity

THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA MINOR AND ON CYPRUS

WORKSHOP JUNE 22–23, 2018 14:00–14:15 16:15–17:00 FRIDAY Welcome Address Gregory of Nazianzus and 22/6/2018 Cilliers Breytenbach, Stephen Early Christian Village Poetry Mitchell, Philipp Pilhofer – Christiane Zimmermann – Humboldt-Universität Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Berlin zu Kiel

14:15–15:00 17:00–17:30 Constantinople and Asia Inscribing Caria: The Persever- Minor: The Matter of Eccle- ance of Epigraphic Traditions siastical Jurisdiction in the in Late Antiquity Fourth Century Anna Sitz – Harvard University Turhan Kaçar – Istanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi 17:30–18:00 Book presentations 15:00–15:45 Caesarea and the Cult of Saints 18:00–18:30 Aude Busine – Université Libre Break de Bruxelles 18:30–19:30 15:45–16:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE Coffee break 378: An Exact Date for the Rise of Christianity at Sagalassos? Peter Talloen – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

20:00–21:00 Conference Dinner 09:00–09:45 12:30–14:00 SATURDAY Balancing between Paganism Lunch break 23/6/2018 and Judaism: The Early Chris- tianity in Cappadocia 14:00–14:30 Margherita Cassia – Università Changing Patterns of Maledic- degli Studi di Catania tions and Penalty Formulas in Late Antique Inscriptions 09:45–10:30 Canan Arıkan – Universität Martyrs, Monks, and Heretics Wien in the Rocky Cappadocia Gaetano Arena – Università 14:30–15:15 degli Studi di Catania Hagiographic Traditions and the Spread of Christianity in 10:30–11:00 Sebasteia and Lesser Armenia Coffee break Stephen Mitchell – University of Exeter 11:00–11:45 The Christian Epigraphy 15:15–15:30 of Cyprus Concluding remarks Daniela Summa – Berlin- Cilliers Breytenbach – Brandenburgische Akademie Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin der Wissenschaften

11:45–12:30 Heis Theos and Hypsistos Theos in Late Roman Cyprus Georgios Deligiannakis – Open University of Cyprus TOPOI BUILDING MITTE ROOM 1.03 HANNOVERSCHE STR. 6 10115 BERLIN

The workshop will stimulate further ORGANISER scholarly discussion on the topic of EXCELLENCE CLUSTER TOPOI the emergence and expansion of early HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN Christianity in Asia Minor and on Cyprus in antiquity. A special focus is Cilliers Breytenbach set on the Christianisation process in [email protected] the province of Cappadocia. Several Stephen Mitchell recently published volumes prepared Philipp Pilhofer by the Topoi research groups will be [email protected] presented during the workshop.