{"id":63503,"date":"2019-05-26T05:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=63503"},"modified":"2019-05-26T23:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T03:57:23","slug":"eight-international-east-west-symposium-of-new-testament-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2019\/05\/eight-international-east-west-symposium-of-new-testament-scholars.html","title":{"rendered":"Eight International East-West Symposium of\u00a0New Testament Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Tonight will mark the beginning of a conference in Romania focused on New Testament anthropology, at which I have the opportunity to present on work related to my project about John the Baptist. It has been really exciting to find things that I think are genuinely new insights emerging out of my efforts to bring the Mandaean sources into the picture, and approaching it via the question of John\u2019s assumptions about human nature really helped. I will say more about this on a future occasion. In the meantime, below is the program for the conference. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/snts.international\/eelc-east-west-symposia-and-publications\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">learn more about the East-West Symposia on the SNTS website<\/a>, since this is an <a href=\"http:\/\/snts.international\/the-eastern-european-liaison-committee-eelc\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eastern European endeavor by that organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DAILY PROGRAM <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>of the Eight International East-West Symposium of\u00a0<\/strong><strong>New Testament Scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Caraiman Monastery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>26<sup>th<\/sup>-31<sup>st<\/sup> of Mai, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, 27<sup>th<\/sup> of Mai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>07:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Morning Prayer (Orthodox): Marian Vild (Bucharest, Romania)<\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Breakfast<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Opening of the Symposium by Stelian Tofan\u0103 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Official messages from His Holiness Daniel, Patriarch of<\/p>\n<p>the Romanian Orthodox Church, from The State Department for Religious Affairs in Romania, and from Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, President of EELC<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Main Papers I and II<\/strong>: Anthropology in Old Testament \/ Hellenistic Judaism<\/p>\n<p>Carl Holladay (Atlanta, USA), <em>Some Hellenistic Jewish Perspectives on Moral Agency: Ben Sira, Philo, and Josephus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alexandru Mih\u0103il\u0103 (Bucharest, Romania), <em>A Circumcised Heart: The Anthropological Function of the Heart as the Inner Man<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00<\/strong> \u2013 Discussion of the Main Paper I and II<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:45 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Main Paper III<\/strong>: Anthropology in the Synoptic Gospels<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ayuch (Balamand, Lebanon), <em>From <\/em>Homo Sedentarius<em> to <\/em>Homo Peregrinator<em>. The Nomadic Nature of Man in Luke [and Acts]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>13:30<\/strong> \u2013 Lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>15:30<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Main Paper IV<\/strong>: Anthropology in the Synoptic Gospels<\/p>\n<p>Joel Marcus (Durham, USA), <em>The Anthropology of the Synoptic Gospels<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>16:15 <\/strong>\u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:45 <\/strong>\u2013 Discussion of the Main Papers III and IV<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:30<\/strong> \u2013 Break<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:45 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Seminar Session I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Ethics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volker Rabens (Jena, Germany), <em>The Dilemma of Human Agency in John\u2019s Gospel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Teodor Brasoveanu (Leuven, Belgium), <em>The Ethical Significance of the Pauline Discourse in 1 Corinthians 9,24-27<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Creation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Georg Schimanowski (T\u00fcbingen, Germany), <em>The Creation of the \u2018mortal human being\u2019 (Gen 2:7) in Philo\u2019s Treatises \u2013 with a <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Short View on Paul<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nenad Bozovic (Belgrade, Serbia), <em>The Image of Adam as Adolescent\u00a0in Eden\u00a0in Patristic Reception of Gen 2-3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Eschatology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Seleznev (Moscow, Russia), <em>Anthropology and Eschatology in the NT and LXX \u2013 with special Reference to the Treatment of Gen 1-3 in the LXX and the NT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Halyna Teslyuk (Lviv, Ukraine), <em>From Biological Barrenness to Spiritual Fertility in Eschaton: An Exegesis of Wis 3:13<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:15 <\/strong>\u2013 Evening Prayer (Catholic): Bartosz Adamczewski (Warsaw, Poland)<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Dinner<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 28<sup>th<\/sup> of Mai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>07:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Morning Prayer (Protestant): Virgil Laszlo (Budapest, Hungary)<\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Breakfast<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Main Papers V and VI<\/strong>: Anthropology in the Gospel of John<\/p>\n<p>Nadine Ueberschaer (Greifswald, Germany), <em>\u201cLazarus, come out.\u201d (John 11, 43). Anthropology in the Gospel of John<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Predrag Dragutinovi\u0107 (Belgrade, Serbia), <em>Reading the Gospel of John as a Story of Life and Death. Some Insights from the Storytelling Anthropology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00<\/strong> \u2013 Discussion of the Main Papers V and VI<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:45 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Main Papers VII and VIII<\/strong>: The Spiritual Human Being in 1 Corinthians<\/p>\n<p>Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (Jena, Germany), <em>The Spiritual Human Being in Paul: 1 Cor 2:15 from a \u201cWestern\u201d Perspective<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christos Karakolis (Athens, Greece), <em>The Apostle Paul as a Paragon of a Spiritual Human Being: Applied Anthropology in Paul\u2019s Biography<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>13:30<\/strong> \u2013 Lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>15:30<\/strong> \u2013 Discussion of the Main Papers VII and VIII<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:15<\/strong> \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:45<\/strong> \u2013 Break<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:45 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Seminar Session II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Ethics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Artur Malina (Katowice, Poland): <em>Hospitality in\u00a0Transformation (Mk 9:5-6 and par.). Interpretations of a Human Response to <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>the\u00a0Transfiguration<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ain Riistan (Tartu, Estonia), <em>Honour and Shame in the Pastoral Ethics of 2 Timothy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Creation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James McGrath (Indianapolis, USA), <em>Anthropological Assumptions of John\u2019s Baptism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Randar Tasmuth (Tartu, Estonia), <em>Temple and Torah turned to Body and Spirit<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Eschatology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James (Bru) Wallace (Memphis, USA), <em>A Dwelling Not Made With Hands: Anthropology, Eschatology, and Theosis in 2 Corinthians 3-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maria Karyakina (St. Petersburg, Russia), <em>Eschatological realization of one\u2019s identity in Christ according to the Letter to the Philippians<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:15 <\/strong>\u2013 Evening Prayer (Orthodox): Theodor Stoitchev (Shumen, Bulgaria)<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Dinner<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 29<sup>th<\/sup> of Mai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>07:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Morning Prayer (Catholic): Artur Malina (Katowice, Poland)<\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Breakfast<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Main Papers IX and X<\/strong>: Marriage and Related Issues in the New Testament<\/p>\n<p>Bill Loader (Perth, Australia), <em>Sex and Gender as Anthropological Categories in the New Testament<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Korinna Zamfir (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), <em>Discourses on Motherhood in the Corpus Paulinum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30<\/strong> \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00<\/strong> \u2013 Discussion of the Main Papers IX and X<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:45 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Individual Paper <\/strong>and Discussion:<\/p>\n<p>Cyril Hovorun (Los Angeles, USA), <em>New Testament Church: Between Discipleship and Fellowship<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>13:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>15:30<\/strong> \u2013 Final plenary<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:30<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Seminar Session III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Ethics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athanasios Despotis (Bonn, Germany), <em>The Relation Between Anthropology and Ethics in John\u2019s Gospel with Regard to the <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hellenistic-Philosophical Milieu and Some Early Patristic Approaches<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bartosz Adamczewski (Warsaw, Poland), <em>Moral Aspects of the Relational Nature of the Human Body in the\u00a0Theology of Paul<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Creation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darko Anev, <em>The Shepherd Imagery and the Shepherding as Reflection of Anthropology through the Metaphorical Elaboration in the Gospel of John<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vladan Tatalovic, <em>Antropology of Johanine Epistles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seminar \u201cAnthropology and Eschatology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marian Vild (Bucharest, Romania), <em>Being in Christ \u2013 the Pauline Concept in the Understanding of the Church Fathers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alexey Somov (Moscow, Russia), <em>Ancient Views on the Human Upright Posture as a Mark of Immortality in the New Testament Imagery of Resurrection<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:15 <\/strong>\u2013 Evening Prayer (Protestant): Maria Karyakina (St. Petersburg, Russia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30<\/strong> \u2013 Dinner<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:30 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Individual Paper <\/strong>and Discussion:<\/p>\n<p>Stelian Tofan\u0103 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), <em>Biblical Scholarship in Romania. Past and Present<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 30<sup>th<\/sup> of Mai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>07:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Morning Prayer (Protestant): Randar Tasmuth (Tartu, Estonia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Breakfast<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>Section \u201cTranslations of the Holy Scripture in Romanian\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Vasile Mihoc (Sibiu, Romania), <em>The 1858 Bible from Sibiu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Stelian Tofan\u0103 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), <em>The Bartholomeus\u2019 Bible \u2013 a New Translation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Petre Semen (Ia\u0219i, Romania), <em>The Bible of Patriarch Nicodim Munteanu related to other Synodal Bibles. Similarities and Differences<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30<\/strong> \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Section \u201cTranslations of the Holy Scripture in Romanian\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00 <\/strong>\u2013 C\u0103t\u0103lin Vatamanu (Ia\u0219i, Romania), <em>Patriarch Nicodim Munteanu \u2013 translator of The Holy Scripture in time of war. The Synodal Bible from 1944, in context<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Cosmin Pricop (Bucharest, Romania), <em>The Importance of the Bucharest Bible (1688) for the Orthodox Biblical Canon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Alexandru Mih\u0103il\u0103 (Bucharest, Romania), <em>Ancient Bible Versions and the Text of the Bucharest Bible<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>14:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Depart to Pele\u0219 Castle<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:15 <\/strong>\u2013 Evening Prayer (Catholic): Petr Mare\u010dek (Olomouc, Czech Republic)<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30<\/strong> \u2013 Festive dinner<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, 31<sup>st<\/sup> of Mai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>07:30 <\/strong>\u2013 Morning Prayer (Orthodox): James (Bru) Wallace (Memphis, USA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 <\/strong>\u2013 Breakfast<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight will mark the beginning of a conference in Romania focused on New Testament anthropology, at which I have the opportunity to present on work related to my project about John the Baptist. 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