Sunday, June 26
8:00-15:00: Arrivals
18:00-19:30: Opening Session (Casa Valdese Terrace)
Gabriele Boccaccini, Opening and Welcome
Isaac W. Oliver, The Reception of Paul the Second Temple Jew
20:00: Dinner (Hotel Casa Valdese)
Monday, June 27
8:00: Breakfast (Hotel Casa Valdese)
9:00-12:30: Paul and the Deutero-Pauline Epistles: Ephesians (Aula A, Facoltà Valdese)
Isaac W. Oliver, Chair
William S. Campbell, You were afar off, but were brought near: Ethne-in-Christ according to Ephesians (5-10mn)
Robert B. Foster, Ephesians and Paul, The Mystery of Israel in Ephesians (5-10mn)
Matthew Thiessen, The Jewish Paul’s Construction of Gentiles in the Letter to the Ephesians (5-10mn)
Eric Noffke, Ephesians in the Jewish Political Debate of the First Century: Rethinking Paul’s Approach in Facing New Challenges (5-10mn)
Respondent: Anders Klostergaard Petersen
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-12:30: Roundtable Discussion of Morning Session Papers
12:45: Lunch (Hotel Casa Valdese)
14:30-17:00: Paul and the Deutero-Pauline Epistles: Colossians and 1 Timothy (Aula A, Facoltà Valdese)
Gabriele Boccaccini, Chair
14:30-15:15: Anders Klostergaard Petersen, The Traditionalisation of Paul. A Weberian Perspective on Colossians
15:15-16:00: James Waddell, Colossians and Paul, The Shadow and the Substance: Early Reception of Paul the Jew in the Letter to the Colossians
16:00-16:15: Break
16:15-17:00: Kathy Ehrensperger, Didaskalos Ethnwn: Pauline Trajectories according to 1 Timothy
18:15 pm: Public Lecture (Aula Magna, Facoltà Valdese)
Daniel Boyarin, Moses in Mark and Paul: When Mark Isn’t Pauline
20:00 Dinner (Open)
Tuesday, June 28
8:00 Breakfast (Hotel Casa Valdese)
9:00-12:30: Who Opposed Paul? (Aula A, Facoltà Valdese)
Isaac W. Oliver, Chair
David Sim, Jew against Jew: The Reception of Paul in Matthew’s Christian Jewish Community (5-10mn)
Giovanni Bazzana, Inimicus Homo? The Presentation of Paul in the Pseudo-Clementine Novel (5-10mn)
Joel Willits, Paul and John of Patmos – Friends, Foes, Or?: A Consideration of the Relationship Between the Paul of the Letters and the Author of the Apocalypse (5-10mn)
Albert Baumgarten, Respondent (20-30mn)
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-12:30: Roundtable Discussion of Morning Session Papers
12:45: Lunch (Hotel Casa Valdese)
13:45: Afternoon Tour to Metro Excavations and the Hadrian Villa in Tivoli, near Rome. Dinner at a restaurant in Tivoli.
22:30: Return from Tivoli.
Wednesday, June 29
8:00: Breakfast (Hotel Casa Valdese)
9:00-12:30: Paul and The Acts of the Apostles (Aula A, Facoltà Valdese)
Gabriele Boccaccini, Chair
9:00-9:45: James C. Charlesworth, Why Ignore Acts in Pauline Research?
9:45-10:30: Simon Claude Mimouni, Le conflit inter-judéen (halakhique) entre Paul, Jacques et Pierre dans la réception des Actes des Apôtres
10:30-10:45: Break
G. P. Carras, Jewish Sensibilities and the Search for the Jewish Paul: A Recasting by Luke in Acts of Paul of His Undisputed Letters? (5-10mn)
Isaac W. Oliver, The First Radical Perspective on Paul: The Calling of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles (5-10mn)
David Rudolph, Luke’s Portrait of Paul in Acts 21:17–26 (5-10mn)
Roundtable Discussion: 11:00-12:30
12:45: Lunch (Hotel Casa Valdese)
14:15-17:35: Paul and Marcion (Aula A, Facoltà Valdese)
Isaac W. Oliver, Chair
14:15-15:00: Judith Lieu, Marcion, Paul and the Jews
15:00-15:45: Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Paul’s Problematic Relation to Judaism in the Seneca-Paul Original Correspondence (2nd Century CE?)
Break: 15:45-16:00
16:00-16:45: David Nienhuis, Reading James Receiving Paul: A Literary-Canonical Analysis
16:45-17:35: Benjamin White, Gentile Judaizing in the Dialogue with Trypho 47: A Test Case for Justin’s Reception of Paul
20:00 Dinner (Open)
Thursday, June 30
8:00: Breakfast (Hotel Casa Valdese)
9:00-12:30: Final session (Aula A, Facoltà Valdese)
Gabriele Boccaccini, Chair
Gabriella Gelardini, “As if by Paul” – Some Remarks on the Textual Strategy of Hebrews (5-10mn)
David Downs, The Scripturalization of “Our Beloved Brother” Paul’s Letters in 2 Peter (5-10mn)
Harry O. Maier, Paul, the Greek Old Testament, and the Promotion of the Flavian Order in 1 Clement (5-10mn)
Respondent, Eric F. Mason (20-30 mn)
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-12:00: Roundtable Discussion of Morning Session Papers
12:00-12:30: Final Comments, Closing Remarks
12:45: Lunch & Farewells (Hotel Casa Valdese)