Category: Events
The New Testament within Judaism (Jan 7, 2025)
Within Judaism? Within Second Temple Judaism? Is the NT a corpus of “Jewish” texts? 9:00am-5:00pm...
Read More7. Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities,...
Read MoreMeet the Author: Gabriele Boccaccini presents James McGrath (1pm-3pm ET, 18 December)
For many, John the Baptist is a footnote in the gospels—Jesus’s unkempt forerunner. But if we look closer, John emerges as a fascinating and influential religious leader in his own right. James F. McGrath turns his critical eye...
Read MoreMeet the Authors: Kelley Coblentz Bautch presents Matthias Henze and David Lincicum (11am-1pm ET, 25 Sept)
Use, misuse, appropriation, citation, allusion, inspiration—how do we characterize the manifold images, paraphrases, and quotations of the Jewish Scriptures that pervade the New Testament? Over the past few decades, scholars...
Read MoreMeet the Author: Isaac Oliver presents Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (10:30am-12:30 pm ET, Oct 28)
Early Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence—a movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture of sacred bookishness that evolved from an unrelenting focus on a canonical...
Read MoreMeet the Author: Gabriele Boccaccini presents Joshua Paul Smith (10:30am-12:00pm ET, June 12)
Was Luke a Christian? In his recent publication, Dr. Joshua Paul Smith challenges the long-held belief that a gentile Christian wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Instead, Smith argues that the author of...
Read More13. ENOCH BEYOND THE SYNOPTICS
13. Enoch beyond the Synoptics Italy (exact location TBD). Hybrid, 16-19 June 2025 Chair: Loren Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany; Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA; Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards...
Read More3. San Diego 2019
“The Gospel of John: Anti-Jewish or Radical Jewish Sectarianism?” San Diego, 22 November 2019 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM Room: 23A (Upper Level East) – Convention Center Theme: “The Gospel of John: Anti-Jewish or Radical Jewish...
Read More2. Denver 2018
Paul the Jew: A Discussion with Mark Nanos and Gabriele Boccaccini” Denver, 16 November 2018 The goal of the meeting (chaired by Isaac Oliver) is to have a conversation between Pauline scholars and Second Temple specialists on...
Read More5. Naples 2015
Second Temple Jewish Paideia in its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts (2015) Naples, Italy (June 30 – July 4, 2015). Conference Committee: Gabriele Boccaccini, Luca Arcari, and Jason M. Zurawski Location of...
Read More4. Milan 2015
Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity? Milan, 15 – 19 June 2015 Villa Cagnola Chair: Guillaume Dye Co-Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini The meeting aimed at re-examining afresh formative Islam in its the...
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