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orion ORION: PSCO Announcement

               PHILADELPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINS

                           in its 35th year
                an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
                       under the auspices of the
                      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                   Department of Religious Studies
               Box 36 College Hall, Philadelphia 19104

TOPIC FOR 1997-98:  TEXTUAL COMMENTARY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE

Chairpersons:
  Megan Williams (Princeton University)                   meganw@panix.com
  Jay Treat (University of Pennsylvania)         jtreat@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Secretaries:
  Brad Kirkegaard (University of Pennsylvania) bkirkega@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
  Beth Pollard Lisi (University of Pennsylvania)  elisi@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Coordinator:  
  Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania)       kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

For 1997-98, the PSCO will bring together scholars of early Judaism, early
Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world to examine interpretation as a
social practice in the Mediterranean world from Philo of Alexandria
through Augustine of Hippo. Our focus is on textual commentaries and
related texts. In order to make sense of commentary writing in late
antiquity, we wish to situate it within the context of ancient modes of
reading, ancient modes of construing the relation of text and meaning, and
ancient modes of transmitting knowledge, as these can be reconstructed
within particular communities and cultures. 

THE FIRST MEETING OF 1997-98 will be held on Thursday, September 25, from
7-9 pm in the Woody Room on the second floor of the Van Pelt Library at
the University of Pennsylvania.  Persons wishing to dine with other
participants prior to the meeting should meet at 6 pm at Duhring Wing
(just north of the small parking lot behind Irvine Auditorium, 34th and
Spruce Streets).  We normally eat at the Food Court in the building at
3401 Walnut Street, although any change of plans will be posted in a note
on the outer door to Duhring Wing.

PROGRAM:

25 September 1997
  Maxine Grossman, University of Pennsylvania
  "Textual Strategies, Authoritative Voice, and the Dead Sea Scrolls."

  This first presentation of the year will introduce the methodological
  issues of textuality, interpretation, and authority to the seminar and
  will then show how these issues play out in interpretive texts of the
  Dead Sea Scrolls. 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

6 November 1997
  David Dawson, Haverford College
  "Early Christian Interpretation"

March 1998
  Robert Lamberton, Washington University
  "Interpretation in the Neo-Platonist Tradition"

May 1998
  James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
  "Christian Interpretation in Late Antiquity"

For detailed directions to the meetings and for further information, visit 
the PSCO web site:
	http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/


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Jay C. Treat 			    manager, Instructional Computing
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The University of Pennsylvania      email:  jtreat@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Philadelphia PA  19104-6305         www:    http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jtreat/