Helsinki, 3–4 December 2016
Bookshop Arkadia, Nervanderinkatu 11
Please pre-register by 18 November:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/75042/lomake.html
Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact
Tuukka Kauhanen (tuukka.kauhanen@helsinki.fi) or Elisa Uusimäki (elisa.uusimaki@helsinki.fi).
Programme
Saturday, December 3rd
10.00–10.15 Welcome
10.15–12.15 Keynote 1 (workshop)
Joan Taylor (King’s College London): Hellenistic Meals in Philo’s De vita contemplativa
12.15–13.00 Lunch break
13.00–15.00 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)
Vasile Babota (Pontifical Gregorian University): Alexander Janneus as High Priest and King. Struggling Between Jewish and Hellenistic Concepts of Rule
Erkki Koskenniemi (Åbo Akademi University): Kings, Judges or Elders?
Jed Wyrick (California State University, Chico): The Peri Ioudaiôn of Artapanus as Court Literature
Simon Krause-Heiber (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): The Transformation of Power Structures in the Books of Esther
15.00–15.30 Coffee/tea served at the venue
15.30–17.30 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)
Joshua Scott (University of Michigan): Oppressive Kings as Fallen Angels: The Theological Recasting of (Jewish) Kings in the Parables of Enoch
Blaženka Scheuer (Lund University): Eminence and Gender: Hellenism at the roots of Megillah 14b?
Hanna Tervanotko (University of Helsinki & KU Leuven) and Elisa Uusimäki (University of Helsinki & Yale Divinity School): Sarah the Princess – Tracing the Hellenistic Afterlife of a Pentateuchal Female Figure
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa (University of Helsinki): Sovereignty in Transition: God vs. Pious Reason as the Absolute Ruler in 2 and 4 Maccabees
17.30–18.00 Conclusion for the first day (Tuukka Kauhanen)
Sunday, December 4th
10.00–12.00 Keynote 2 (workshop)
Katell Berthelot (CNRS – Aix-Marseille University), The Hasmonean dynasty as a type of Hellenistic Kingship
12.00–12.45 Lunch break
12.45–13.15 Short paper
Joan Taylor (King’s College London), The Synagogue of the Therapeutae
13.15–14.00 Panel discussion/conclusion (Tuukka Kauhanen)