Sunday, January 16

Session I: Heresies, Identities, and Orthodoxies

Session Chair - Peter Schäfer (Princeton University)

1:15 Peter Schäfer (Princeton University), Greetings

1:30 David Satran (Hebrew University), “Heresies in the Classroom: Authority and Persuasion in Greco-Roman Paideia”

2:15 Karen L. King (Harvard Divinity School), “Of What Are Early Christian Discourses of Heresy Evidence? A Query to Irenaeus and the Testimony of Truth among Others”

3:00 Short Break

3:15 Caroline Humfress (University of London), “Citizens and Heretics: Late Roman Lawyers on Christian Heresy”

4:00 Averil Cameron (Oxford University), “The Violence of Orthodoxy”

4:45 Tea Break

“Two Men before a Wall” (Woodcut, fifteenth century, The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 82)

“A Dispute between Jews and Gentiles” (Woodcut, fifteenth century, The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 81)

Monday, January 17

Session II: Marking Others

Session Chair - Peter Brown (Princeton University)

9:30 Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton University), “‘The Children of Abraham Your Friend’: The Rise of Christianity and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism”

10:15 John Gager (Princeton University), “Lucan Internal Supercessionism”

11:00 Short Break

11:15 Eduard Iricinschi (Princeton University), “If You Got It, Flaunt It: Religious Advertising in the Gospel of Philip”

12:00 Richard Lim (Smith College), “The Nomen Manichaeorum and Its Uses in Late Antiquity”

Session III: Making Selves

Session Chair - Holger Zellentin (Princeton University)

2:00 Kevin Osterloh (Princeton University), “Joining the Oikoumenê on Their Own Terms: The Reinvention of Jewish Collective Identity in Hellenistic Judaea”  

2:45 Philippa Townsend (Princeton University), “Who Were the First Christians? Jews, Gentiles and the Invention of Christianity”

3:30 Short Break

3:45 William Arnal (University of Regina), “Doxa, Heresy, and Self-Construction: The Pauline Ekklesiai and the Boundaries of Urban Identities”

4:30 Yannis Papadoyannakis (Princeton University), “Defining Christianity in Pseudo-Justin’s Quaestiones et Responsiones ad Orthodoxos”

5:15 Tea Break

“Philip Augustus Burning Heretics,” (Illuminated manuscript, fifteenth century, from Morgan Library, New York, M. 536, ©Morgan Library)

“Dominic of Bologna, the Miracle of Unburnt Book, and Seven Heretics,” (Painting, triptych, fourteenth century, from Pisa, Museo Nazionale di S. Matteo)

Tuesday, January 18

Session IV: Never Parting Ways

Session Chair - Adam Becker (New York University)

9:30 Elaine Pagels (Princeton University), “Who Are ‘Those Who Say They Are Jews and Are Not’ (Revelation 2.9)?”

10:15 Annette Yoshiko Reed (McMaster University), “Heresiology and the (Jewish-)Christian Novel: Narrativized Polemics in the Pseudo-Clementines”

11:00 Short Break

11:15 Gregg Gardner (Princeton University), “Rabbis as the Other in Talmudic Literature: A Polemic Against Astrological Practices within Rabbinic Society (BT Shab. 156)”

12:00 Burton L. Visotzky (Jewish Theological Seminary), “Goys Rn't Us: Rabbinic Anti-Gentile Polemic in Yerushalmi Berachot 9:1 as a Means of Exploring Communal Borders within the Social and Religious Context of Late-Antique Christian Rome”

12:45 Break

Session Chair - Eduard Iricinschi (Princeton University)

2:00 Holger Zellentin (Princeton University), “Talmudic Adaptations of the Sermon on the Mount: Remaking Jews, Remarkably Christian”

2:45 Israel Yuval (Hebrew University), “The Other in Us: Liturgica, Poetica, and Polemica”

3:30 Tea Break