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Yesterday I chaired the \u201cTraditions of East Late Antiquity\u201d exploratory session. Apparently exploratory sessions get a set time slot irrespective of the number of papers, and so we had had to set a time limit of 15 minutes each. The result was actually quite remarkable \u2013 each paper was focused and fit exactly in the time slot, and was presented in a way that was clear and accessible to the many people present who work in this area but not in the particular one that the paper focused on. Mandaeism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Jewish Christian interaction as evidenced from a comparison between the Babylonian Talmud and Syriac Christian sources. It was truly fascinating, and I learned a lot! Given that it is not an established program unit, I think the attendance was very encouraging. While Charles Haberl shared a photo of a depressingly empty room taken just before he got up to read his paper, that quickly changed, and I counted 19 people total in attendance (with some leaving before the end and others coming in later). I hope that our proposal to make this a regular program unit will be successful.<\/p>\n

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