[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

orion PSCO - May 14




               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
                201 Logan Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104

TOPIC FOR 1997-98:  TEXTUAL COMMENTARY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE

THE FINAL MEETING OF 1997-98 will be held on Thursday, 14 May, from 7-9 pm
in the Lounge on the second floor of Logan Hall at the University of
Pennsylvania.  Beginning at 6:00 pm, a light buffet will be available in
the Logan Hall lounge for persons who wish to take advantage of this
opportunity to visit informally with other participants (contributions to
defray costs will be accepted but are not mandatory). 

PROGRAM:
                               
14 May, 1998
A Panel of Scholars

Greg Snyder, Columbia University
"Pesher Commentary and Reading Practices at Qumran." 

Larry Kim, Princeton University
"Disentangling Ancient Greek Allegorical and Rationalizing Exegesis" 

Stephen Cooper, Franklin and Marshall College
"Angst About Judaizing Christians: Paranoid Imagination of a Commentator
or Window on the Social World of Fourth-Century Roman Christianity? The
Case of Marius Victorinus Rhetor on Paul."

Megan Williams, Princeton
"Jerome's Textual Criticism in the Minor Prophets Commentaries and the
Ancient Grammarians."


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


-- 
Jay C. Treat
440 Williams Hall                   voice:  (215) 898-9892
The University of Pennsylvania      email:  treat@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Philadelphia PA  19104-6305         www:    http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jtreat/