Programme for EABS/ISBL 2018
8/01/2018
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Room: P 723 – Yliopistonkatu 3, Porthania
Theme: Gendered Virtue?
Elisa Uusimäki, Helsingin Yliopisto – Helsingfors Universitet, Presiding
Agnethe Siquans, University of Vienna
The Male Gender of Virtue: The Allegorical Interpretation of Pharaoh’s Decree in Exodus 1 (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Anna-Liisa Tolonen, University of Helsinki
Beyond Reason? The “Manliness” of the Mother in 4 Maccabees (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Johannes Vorster, University of South Africa
Claiming Superiority through “Virtue” as a Configuration of Empowering Bodily Strategies in 4 Maccabees (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (15 min)
8/02/2018
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: Room 16 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
Theme: Is there Virtue in Semitic texts?
Anna-Liisa Tolonen, Helsingin Yliopisto – Helsingfors Universitet, Presiding
Lotta Valve, Abo Akademi
The Book of Malachi and the Transformation of Deuteronomic Concepts of Righteousness/Virtue (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Jonathan Thambyrajah, University of Sydney
Is There a Unified Sense of Virtuous Character and Action in the Book of Haggai? (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Hanneke van der Schoor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Virtues in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls in a Hellenistic context (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Elisa Uusimäki, Helsingin Yliopisto – Helsingfors Universitet
Is There ‘Virtue’ in Semitic texts? An Analysis of the Testament of Qahat (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (20 min)
8/02/2018
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Room: Room 16 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
Theme: Portraying Virtue
Elisa Uusimäki, Helsingin Yliopisto – Helsingfors Universitet, Presiding
Anna-Liisa Tolonen, Helsingin Yliopisto – Helsingfors Universitet, Presiding
Jed Wyrick, California State University, Chico
The Persecution of Virtue in Greco-Judaean Texts (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Mina Monier, King’s College London
Luke’s Jesus and Pliny’s Trajan: The Virtue of “Pietas” in the Wake of a Roman Succession Crisis (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Siiri Toiviainen, University of Helsinki
Virtue in Abundance: Solomon as an Anti-hedonist Exemplar in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on Ecclesiastes (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Break (30 min)
Daniel Hjort, Lund University
Jesus and the Virtues: The Biographical Presentation of Moral Qualities in the Gospel of Matthew (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Kenneth Cukrowski, Abilene Christian University
An Ethnography of Virtue in Luke’s Gospel (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Dogara Ishaya Manomi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Virtue in the Letter to Titus (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (15 min)