This year's "Exegetiska Dagen" ("The Exegetical Day") in Sweden will take place at Uppsala University on 21 September. The theme is "Faces of Apocalyptics" featuring the following speakers:
Schedule
9.15–10.15AM
Professor John Collins, Yale University "Apocalypse and Empire. Apocalyptic Literature as Resistance Literature"
10.45–11.45AM
Docent Cecilia Wassen, Uppsala "End Time Temples in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Competing Visions of the Eschaton"
2.15–3.15PM
Professor Adela Collins , Yale University "The reception of Paul's apocalyptic eschatology in the (pseudonymous) letter to the Colossians"
3.45–4.45PM
Panel
5.00PM
Business meeting (Svenska Exegetiska Sällskapet)
7.00PM
Dinner
The conference is open and free of charge, except for the evening dinner where reservation is necessary, and the business meeting is for members only.
The main papers are usually published as articles in Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok. In the next issue of the journal I have a piece on Greek New Testament MSS in Sweden including some nice plates (unfortunately not in color).
Is this conference going to be conducted in Hebrew, Greek, English--or a combination of the above?
ReplyDeleteIn English with a few references to ancient languages. After all, Randall Buth is not one of the spekars :-)
ReplyDeleteI am curious as to how 'Apocalyptics' is being used in the title of the Conference. If it is being used as a noun in contrast to an adjective, as it appears to be, what is the referent: Apocalypses, authors of apocalyptic literature, content of apocalypses, etc.? Thanks, BER
ReplyDeleteIt's Swenglish for 'Apocalypticism'.
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