Provisional Schedule
Sunday, June 19––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Arrivals – Bus from the Arezzo Railway Station (5pm). Meet at the cafe in the train station.
7:30pm Dinner
8:30pm Welcome
Monday, June 20––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
8 to 9am – Breakfast
09:00–10:15 – Introduction:
Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
- Benjamin Reynolds “The Gospel of John’s Christology as Evidence for Second Temple Jewish Messianic Expectation: Challenges and Possibilities”
- James McGrath “The Gospel of John as Jewish Messianism: Formative Influences and Negative Avenues in the History of Scholarship”
10:45–12:30 – Session 1:
Chair: Benjamin Reynolds
- Gabriele Boccaccini “How Jesus Became Uncreated” – Respondent: Paul Anderson
13:00 – Lunch
14:30–16:00 – Short Papers
- Group A: Chair – Kelley Coblentz Bautch
- Jocelyn McWhiter, “Searching the Scriptures: Messianic Exegesis in the Fourth Gospel”
- Paul Mandel, “The Exegesis of God: John 1:18 in Light of Jewish Traditional Practice”
- Jo-Ann Brant, “Johannine Christology: Sacred Time, Sacred Space, Sacred Body”
- Group B: Robert Hall
- Beth Stovell, “Son of God as the Anointed One?: Johannine Davidic Christology and Second Temple Messianism.”
- Joel Willits, “David’s Sublation of Moses: A Davidic Explanation for the Mosaic Christology of the Fourth Gospel”
- Marida Nicolaci, “Kingship of God and Identity of Jesus in Johannine Messianism”
- Meredith Warren, “‘When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?’ (John 7:31): Signs and the Messiah in the Gospel of John”
16:30–18:15 – Session 2:
Chair: Benjamin Reynolds
- Adele Reinhartz “And the Word was God”: John’s Christology and Jesus’s Discourse in Jewish Context — Respondent: Matthias Henze
19:30 – Dinner
Tuesday, June 21––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
9:00–10:15 – Reading session
- Group A: Text – John 1:1-34
- Reader: John Ronning
- Group B: Text – John 1:35-51
- Reader: Matthias Henze
- Group C: John 7:10-44
- Reader: Jo-Ann Brant
10:45–12:30 – Session 3:
Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
- William Loader “Wisdom and Logos Traditions in Judaism and John’s Christology” — Respondent: Grant Macaskill
13:00 – Lunch
< afternoon > Visit to the Eremo of Camaldoli and its Ancient Library.
17:45–19:30 – Session 4
Chair: Benjamin Reynolds
- Charles Gieschen “The Divine Name that the Son Shares with the Father in the Gospel of John” — Respondent: Chad Pierce
19:30 – Dinner
Wednesday, June 22––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
09:00–10:15 – Reading Session
- Group A: Text – John 5:17-47
- Reader: Shayna Sheinfeld
- Group B: John 4:1-42
- Reader: Kelley Coblentz Bautch
- Group C: John 12:27-50
- Reader:
10:45–12:30 – Session 5:
Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
- Crispin Fletcher-Louis “The Gospel of John and the Son of Man” – Respondent: Benjamin Reynolds
13:00 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Short Papers
- Group A: Chair – Deborah Forger
- Shayna Sheinfeld, “2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, & John’s Use of Light”
- Matthias Henze, “John’s Christology: A Comparative Reading with 2 Baruch”
- Robert Hall, “Parables of Enoch, Ascension of Isaiah, and John: Overhearing an Ancient Conversation”
- Group B: Chair – Paul Mandel
- John Ronning, “The ‘High and Lifted Up’ Son of Man Christology of John’s Gospel”
- Jonathan Lo, “The “Son of Man” and the Characterization of Jesus in John’s Gospel”
- Mary J. Marshall, “The Translocation and Transmutation of the Life-giver in the Fourth Gospel”
16:30–18:15 – Session 6:
Chair: Benjamin Reynolds
- Ruben Zimmermann “John and the Divine Bridegroom” — Respondent: Kelley Coblentz Bautch
19:30 – Dinner
Thursday, June 23––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
09:00–10:30 – Short Papers
- Group A: Chair –
- Wally Cirafesi, “1 Enoch, the ‘Temple Stone’ from the Magdala Synagogue, and a Priestly Son of Man in John 6:25–71: A Proposal
- “Douglas Estes, “A Little ‘Light’ Christology: Jewish Messianism, the Stone of Magdala, and the Prologue of John”
- Urban von Wahlde, “Before Jesus ‘Died for Our Sins’: Evidence for a Purely Jewish Interpretation of the Ministry of Jesus at One Stage in the Development of the Gospel of John”
- Group B: Chair
- Andrea Taschl-Erber, “Christological Transformation of the Motif of “Living Water” (John 4; 7): Prophetic Messiah Expectations and Sapiental Tradition”
- Deborah Forger, “The Significance of Jesus’s Logoi in John’s Gospel”
- Andrew Byers, “The One Lord and One People of the One God: The Fourth Gospel’s Vision of a Divine Messiah and a Divinized Israel”
11:00–12:45 – Session 7:
Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini
- Catrin Williams “Johannine Christology and Prophetic Traditions: The Case of Isaiah” — Respondent: James Davila
13:00 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Session 8
Chair: Benjamin Reynolds
- James Charlesworth “Dead Sea Messianism and John’s Christology” — Respondent: Angela Kim Harkins
16:30–18:15 – Conclusion; Wrap-up session: Gabriele Boccaccini and Benjamin Reynolds
19:30 – Dinner
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Friday, June 24
Bus to Arezzo Railway Station. We will aim to be back in Arezzo by 9am.