Notre Dame 2012 – Schedule

Monday, June 18, 2012

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Lunch. Welcome
4:00 PM to 8:15 PM Papers
4:00 PM to 4:40 PM Use of Scripture in 4QBeatitudes: Making Proverbs more Particular?
4:40 PM to 5:20 PM Variant Edition or Rewritten Scripture? The Case of Greek Esther
5:20 PM to 6:00 PM Questions concerning the Original Language and Provenance of Sirach 24
6:00 PM to 6:15 PM 15 Minute Break
6:15 PM to 6:55 PM Foreseeing the Crisis: The Attribution of Zech 9–14 to the Pprophet Zechariah during the Ptolemaic Period
6:55 PM to 7:35 PM Take to Heart these Instructions: The Shema in the Second Temple Period, a reconsideration
7:35 PM to 8:15 PM The Natural World as Testimony and Judgment in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

11:00 AM to 11:40 AM “The Wonders He Did in Egypt and His Signs” – Judgment or salvation in 4Q185
11:00 AM to 2:10 PM Papers
11:40 AM to 12:20 PM Why Qumran “Loved” Melchizedek
12:20 PM to 1:00 PM Women at the Yahad or Women at Qumran? A Study on Gender in the Damascus Document, the Rule Scroll, Serekh Damascus, and in the Historical Sources Related to the Essenes
1:00 PM to 1:10 PM 10 Minute Break
1:10 PM to 1:50 PM The Unity of Jubilees 5:1-18
1:50 PM to 2:30 PM The Second Temple in Jeremiah Second Temple Literature
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Lunch
4:00 PM to 8:15 PM Papers
4:00 PM to 4:40 PM Pious Demonology versus Illicit Witchcraft: Theologizing Magic in Testament of Solomon 19-­26
4:40 PM to 5:20 PM The Messages of History in Ben Sira, the Animal Apocalypse and Jubilees
5:20 PM to 6:00 PM The Embodiment of Time and the Periodization of History as Revealed Wisdom in the Apocalypse of Weeks and 4QInstruction
6:00 PM to 6:15 PM 15 Minute Break
6:15 PM to 6:55 PM The Compositional Structure of Dream-Visions in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: A Preliminary Report
6:55 PM to 7:35 PM The Apocalyptic Worldview of the Damascus Document
7:35 PM to 8:15 PM The “Abba” of Jesus within Geza Vermes’ Hasid-theory
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM Dinner

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

11:00 AM to 2:30 PM Papers
11:00 AM to 11:40 AM The Shaping of Jesus’ Encounter with a Gentile Woman: How the Gentile Church Obscured the Jewish Ethnicity of Their Lord
11:40 AM to 12:20 PM Judaean Identity in Q
12:20 PM to 1:00 PM Multi-Headed Beasts and the Roman Emperors Eschatological Antagonists in 4 Ezra 11-12 and Revelation 13 and 17
1:00 PM to 1:10 PM 10 Minute Break
1:10 PM to 1:50 PM Purifying and Sanctifying Gentile Followers of Jesus: Luke’s Affirmation of Purity and Dietary Laws in Acts 10–11
1:50 PM to 2:30 PM Your Impurity is My Purity: The “Jewish” Persecution of Christ in P. Heidelberg, inv. G 1101