Please find attached the programme for the forthcoming conference taking place at the Clarendon Institute on 20-21 June.
All are welcome, but please pre-register via this e-mail address and also kindly indicate whether you would like a sandwich lunch (for which there will be a £5 charge, payable on the day[s] you attend.) sue.forteath@ochjs.ac.uk
| Monday 20 June SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD TO LATE ANTIQUITY 9.15am Opening remarks: 9.30-10.15am Hugh Williamson Egypt in the Book of Isaiah 10.15-11am Reinhard Kratz Arameans and Judaeans: Ethnography and Identity at Elephantine 11-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30-12.15pm Noah Hacham Between Jews and Non-Jews: the Case of 3 Maccabees 12.15-1pm Livia Capponi The metaphor of the plague. The expulsion of Jews in 19 CE and the image of Jews and Egyptians under Tiberius 1-2pm Sandwich Lunch 2-2.45pm Willy Clarysse Identifying Jews: the evidence of the papyri 2.45-3.30pm Margaret Williams Diaspora community in early Roman imperial Egypt 3.30-4pm Tea break 4-4.45pm Gregory Sterling – Keynote The history of the Alexandrian Jewish community 4.45-5.30pm William Horbury – Keynote 5.30-6pm Concluding remarks: Dorothy Thompson 7pm Dinner for speakers at Rewley House
An Andalusi poet descends to Egypt: Judah al-Harîzî’s account of his visit to its communities in 1222
From Exile in Egypt to Exile in Safed – Galut in Moses Alsheikh’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
7pm Dinner for speakers at Rewley House |