Find listed below all the sessions which involve members of the CoE. For more information and the full program, see here.
July 30 – 4 PM–6 PM
Opening Session, Great Hall – Unioninkatu 34, Päärakennus (Main Building)
- Outi Lehtipuu, chair of the local organizing committee, words of welcome
- Ismo Dunderberg and Siiri Toiviainen, panelists discussing “What I Would Like to See Happening in Biblical Studies
July 31 – 9 AM–11 AM
Bodies of Communication (EABS), Room 6 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Siiri Toiviainen, Pleasure Isn’t Always about Sex: Gregory of Nyssa on Genesis 3 as a Hedonist Error
Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society: Translating Bible for a Digital Age, Room 203 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Niko Huttunen, Cultural Gap: Translating Strange Thoughts
Open Forum for New Testament and Early Christian Studies (EABS), Room 106 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Outi Lehtipuu, presiding
July 31 – 2 PM–3:30 PM
Early Christianity (EABS), Festive Hall (Juhlasali) – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
Memorial Session in Honour of Heikki Räisänen
- Ismo Dunderberg, presiding
July 31 – 2 PM–5:30 PM
Citizens and Aliens in Greco-Roman Antiquity (EABS), P 724 – Yliopistonkatu 3, Porthania
- Maijastina Kahlos and Joona Salminen, presiding
Construction of Identity in the Ancient World: Intersections and Reflections (EABS), Auditorium IV – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Marika Rauhala, Negotiating the Masculine Ideal: Gender Stereotypes in Ancient Religious Discourse
July 31 – 4 PM–5:30
Feminist Interpretations: Feminist Interpretation of Family Relationships and Health Care (EABS), Room 115 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Vilja Alanko: Becoming a Subject: Mother-daughter Relationships in the Acts of Thecla
August 1 – 9 AM–11 AM
Enoch within and outside the Books of Enoch: Parabiblical Writings, Iconography and Oral Tradition (EABS), Room 15 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Ivan Miroshnikov together with Alexey Somov, Institute for Bible Translation, The Function of Enoch and Elijah in the Eschatological Scenario of the Apocalypse of Elijah
Virtue in Biblical Literature (EABS), P 723 – Yliopistonkatu 3, Porthania
- Anna-Liisa Tolonen, Beyond Reason? The “Manliness” of the Mother in 4 Maccabees
August 1 – 2 PM–3:30 PM
Judaica, Room 106 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, Philo’s Reincarnational Anthropology: A Comparison with Clement
August 1 – 2 PM–5:30 PM
Biblical Reception History and Authority in the Middle Ages and Beyond (EABS), Room 406 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Ritva Palmén, presiding
- Mikko Posti, God’s Knowledge of Creation in Scholastic Theology: Biblical and Philosophical Perspectives
- Sami Pihlström together with Sari Kivistö, University of Tampere, The Emergence of Antitheodicism: On the Literary and Philosophical Reception of the Book of Job
- Heikki J. Koskinen, Textual Interpretation, Metaphysical Power, and Pathologies of Recognition
August 1 – 4 PM–5:30 PM
Status of Women in the Profession, Room 6 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Outi Lehtipuu, panelist discussing “Teaching Gender and the Bible”
August 2 – 9 AM–11 AM
Virtue in Biblical Literature (EABS), Room 16 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Anna-Liisa Tolonen, presiding
August 2 – 2 PM–4:30 PM
Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism, Auditorium III – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Ulla Tervahauta, presiding
August 2 – 2 PM–5:30 PM
Archaeology and the Biblical World, Room 204 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Raimo Hakola, The Ancient Synagogue at Horvat Kur, Galilee: Excavations 2010–2018
Construction of Identity in the Ancient World: Intersections and Reflections (EABS), Room 406 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
- Marika Rauhala, presiding
Virtue in Biblical Literature (EABS), Room 16 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
- Anna-Liisa Tolonen, presiding
- Siiri Toiviainen, Virtue in Abundance: Solomon as an Anti-hedonist Exemplar in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on Ecclesiastes