ROOM 1 Tuesday August 7 Priesthood and Episcopacy 9.00 Susanna Elm: “Hellenism and the Bishop” 9.20. Joseph Müller: “Jewish Roots of Ancient Elections of Christian Bishops” 9.40. Christine Trevett: “Firmilian and his Circle” 10.00. Richard Kim: “Bad Bishops Corrupt Good Emperors: Ecclesiastical Authority and the Rhetoric of Heresy in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus” 11.20. Turhan Kaçar: “The Election of Nectarius: The Cilician Political Factor in Late Fourth- Century Constantinople” 11.40. Daniel van Slyke: “Martin of Tours and the Order of Exorcist” 12.00. Geoffrey Greatrex: “The Fall of Macedonius (511) Reconsidered” 12.20. David Hunt: “The Bishop and the Prostitute: Dirty Tricks and Diplomacy after the Council of Sardinia” 12.40. J.J. van Ginkel: “John of Dara on Priesthood and its Historiographical Implications” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday August 8 The Making of Dogma 9.00. Clark Carlton: “The ‘Language Game of Dogmatic Polemics: A Fifth-Century Case Study” 9.20. Michele Cataudella: “L’Ecumene dei Padri fra “Scienza’ e Propaganda” 9.40. Larry Duran: “The Athanasian Creed: Begotten but Coeternal?” 10.00. Robert Royalty: “Heresy before ‘Heresy’: the Discursive Origins of Early Orthodoxy” Editions and Discoveries 11.20. John Duffy: “New Fragments of Sophronius of Jerusalem and Aristo of Pella?” 11.40. Britt Dahlman: “An Edition of the Greek Life of Onouphrios” 12.00. Jean Reynard: “Un inédit à paraître aux Sources Chrétiennes: le mystère des letters grecques” 12.20. Dimitrios Zaganas: “Deux fragments inédits de l’In Isaiam de Cyrille d’Alexandrie” 12.40. Thomas Schmidt: “Scholies inédits de Basile le Minime, commentateur de Grégoire de Nazianze” 1 Thursday August 9 Christians and Jews 9.00. Arne Hobbel: “Philo and the Early Church Fathers” 9.20. J.G.M. Reuling: “Church Fathers and Rabbis on Psalm 22 (Masoretic Text)” 9.40. Catherine Tkacz: “Esther as a Type of Christ and the Jewish Celebration of Purim” 10.00. István Bugar: “Images of Jews and Christians in the Seventh Century: The Narratio de Imagine in Beryto and its Context” Patristic Hermeneutics 11.20. Piotr Paciorek: “An Anthropological Hermeneutic in Patristic Theology” 11.40. Benôit Gain: “Le respect du au livres des Écritures: quelques témoignages patristiques 12.00. Kari Kloos: “Christ the Revealer: Patristic Views on the Mediation of Christ in the Old Testament” 12.20. Mark Elliott: “The Patristic Homily as Secret Weapon” 12.40. Carol Harrison: “The Construction of the Hearer in Late Antiquity” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday August 10 Patristic Exegesis 9.00. Peter Widdicombe: “The Drunkenness of Noah and the Patristic Legacy in Text and Art” 9.20. Mathilde Aussedat: “The Exegesis of the Book of Jeremiah in the Greek Exegetical Catenae” 9.40. Kenneth Stevenson: “The Transfiguration Narratives in the Latin Fathers” 10.00. Hellen Dayton: “The Use of St Luke 10.38-42: Christ as a Guest in the House of Mary and Martha” 11.20. Damian Casey: “Universal Salvation and John 14.6” 11.40. Marco Rizzi: “Romans XIII in Early Patristic Exegesis” 12.00. Augustine Curley: “The Hidden Gospel: Patristic Commentary on Romans 16.21-28” 12.20. Rocco Borgognoni: “No Animals in the New Paradise: Patristic Exegesis of Isaiah’s Peaceful Kingdom” 12.40. Catherine Lefort: “Le baiser de Judas dans l’interprétation symbolique de l’église ancienne” 2 ROOM 2 Tuesday August 7 Second Century 9.20. David Rankin: “Athenagoras, Philosopher and First Principles” 9.40. Jeffrey Bingham: “Scripture as Apology in Athenagoras of Athens” 10.00. Lásló Perendy: “The Outlines of Systematic Theology in the Ad Autolycum of Theophilus of Antioch” 11.20. Anthony Briggman: “Dating Irenaeus’ Acquisition of Theophilus’ Correspondence to Autolycus: A Pnaumatological Perspective 11.40. Christopher Bounds: “Competing Doctrines of Christian Perfection: The Primary Issue in Irenaeus’ refutation of Gnosticism” 12.00. Harald Buchinger: “Eine vergessene Etymologie des Pascha: Irenäus von Lyon und die Onomastica Sacra” 12.20. Katherine Bracht: “Really a Commentary? The Problem of the Genre of Hippolytus’ Commentary on Daniel” 12.40. David du Toit: “Hippolytus, In Danielem 11.27.5ff and Nomina Sacra: Some Observations” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday August 8 Ignatius of Antioch 9.00. Michael Svigel: “The Centre of Ignatius of Antioch’s Catholic Christianity” 9.20. Ferdinando Bergamelli: “Lasciate che io riceva la pura luce. Giunto là sarò uomo (Romani 6.2). L’antropologia d’Ignazio” 9.40. David Reis: “Surveillance, Interrogation and Discipline: inside Ignatius’ Panopticon” 10.00. Diane Lipsett: “Apostolic Fathers on the Erotics of Virtue: Hermas, Ignatius and 1 and 2 Clement” Heresiology 11.20. Yannis Papadogiannakis: “Anti-Marcionite and anti-Manichaean Arguments in pseudo- Justin’s Quaestiones et responsiones ad orthodoxos” 12.40. Joshua Papsdorf: “Filastrius of Brescia’s Catalogue of Heresies” 3 Thursday August 9 Apostolic Fathers 9.00. Tim Hegedus: “Midrash in the Letter of Barnabas” 9.20. Paul Hartog: “Polycarp’s Martyrdom ‘According to the Gospel’ and Paul’s Philippians” 9.40. Noel Fitzpatrick: “The First Letters of Paul and Clement to the Christians” 10.00. David Robinson: “Dipsychia and the Spiritual Life in the Shepherd of Hermas” Western Theology: Fifth Century 11.20. Gertrude Gillette: “Why does Cassian Align Friendship and Anger in his Conference 16?” 11.40. Mark Sheridan: “First Movements (propatheiai) in John Cassian” 12.00. Maureen Tilley: “Asceticism and Embroidery in Rules for Nuns by Caesarius of Arles” 12.20. Vincenzo Messana: “Aspetti instituzionali e referimenti normative in Salviano di Marsiglia” 12.40. Rita Zanotto: “Tracca dela liturgia ariana nel documenti Ravennati de eta teodericiana” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday August 10 The First Apologists 9.00. Clayton Jefford: “Musings on the Epistle to Diognetus” 9.20. John Adair: “The Power and Will of God: A Comment on Justin’s Christology” 9.40. Khaled Anatolios: “Trinitarian Doctrine and Christological Narrative in Justin Martyr” 10.00. Carl Baechle: “Justin Martyr and the Use of Sacred Scripture” 11.20. Denis Minns: “The Text of Justin’s Apologies” 11.40. James Jeffers: “Separating the Inseparable: How Justin Martyr and Athenagoras Sought to Separate the Political and Religious Aspects of Emperor Worship” 12.00. Leszek Misiarczyk: “Are the Texts of the Greek Apologists of the Second Century Really Apologetic?” 12.20. Gene Fojtik: “Tatian the Barbarian: Language, Education and Identity in the Oratio ad Graecos “ 12.40. Joseph Lössl: “Hermeneutics and the Concept of God in Tatian’s Ad Graecos” 4 ROOM 6 Tuesday August 7 Apocrypha 9.00. Marek Starowieyski: “Le figure de Judas dans les apocryphes” 9.20. Woody McCree: “The Gospel of Truth and its Alexandrian Matrix” 9.40. Reider Aasgaard: “The Gospel for Early Christian Children: a Re-assessment of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas” 10.00. Charles Hill: “Serapion, the Gospel of Peter and a Four Gospel Canon at the End of the Second Century” 11.20. Helen Rhee: “Wealth and the Wealthy in the Acts of Peter” 11.40. Marek Starowieyski: ”Les apôtres dans les apocryphes” 12.00. Nicole Kelley: “The Epidemiology of Religion in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies” 12.20. Stephen Shoemaker: “Asceticism in the Early Dormition Apocrypha” 12.40. Adriana Bara: “The Apocryphal Writings Represented in Icons” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday August 8 Clement of Alexandria 9.00. David O’Brien: “Entering the Kingdom with Difficulty: The Problem of the Wealthy in Hermas and Clement of Alexandria” 9.20. Andrew Dinan: “Ainigma and ainittomia in the Works of Clement of Alexandria” 9.40. Henny Fiskå Hägg: “Deification in Clement of Alexandria” 10.00. Matthew Lootens: “Pistis in Clement of Alexandria: A New Perspective” 11.20. Ulrich Neymeyr: “Segen bei Clemens von Alexandrien” 11.40. Jana Platova: “Bemerkungen zu den Hypotyposen-Fragmente des Clemens Alexandrinus” 12.00. Ute Possekel: “’Children of God’ in Clement of Alexandria 12.20. Jan van Pottelberge: “Is Clement of Alexandria Really the Author of the Exhortation of Endurance (fr. 44 Stählin)?. Linguistic Arguments.” 12.40. Ronald Kydd: “Polemics and the Gifts of the Spirit in Tertullian, Irenaeus and the Excerpts from Theodotus” 5 Room 6 Thursday August 9 Early Western Christianity 9.00. Earl Muller: “A Distinctive Feature of Early Roman Angelomorphic Christology” 9.20. Richard Tomsick: “Structure and Exegesis in Tertullian’s Ad Uxorem and De Exhortatione Castitatis” 9.40. Annemieke ter Brugge: “Between Adam and Aeneas: Tertullian on Rejection and Appropriation of Roman Culture” 10.00. Matthew Steenberg: “Sinful Nature as Second Nature in Tertullian of Carthage” 11.20. Annemarie Mayer: “Cyprian’s Notion of Unity – an Ecumenical Aim?” 11.40. Stefan Freund: “Laktanz und die Johannesoffenbarung” 12.00. Gabor Kendeffy: “The Functioning of the Two Ways as seen by Lactantius” 12.20. Daniel de Decker: “How far can we rely on Lactantius’ Testimony in The Deaths of the Persecutors?” 12.40. Octavian Gordon: “Is De Mortibus Persecutorum Really an Orphan?” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday August 10