The interdisciplinary workshop “‘As It Is Written’? Uses of Sources in Ancient Mediterranean Texts”, will be held at the University of Göttingen, Germany, on 11-12 October 2018 (programme below).
For more information, or if you plan to attend, please contact the organisers, Chiara Meccariello ([email protected]) and Jennifer Singletary ([email protected]).
Programme
Venue: Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen
Thursday 11 October 2018
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-9.30 Greetings and introduction
Session 1: Methodological and Practical Approaches
9.30-10.15 Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó (University of Heidelberg), Source Texts as Authority Constructions: a Conceptual Approach to the Old Babylonian Literary Discourse
10.15-11.00 Laura Carlson Hasler (Yale University), Archives Re-Made: Building Virtual Collections in Ancient Jewish Historiography
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15 Nereida Villagra (University of Lisbon), Source Citations in the Scholia to the Odyssey: References, Subscriptions and the Mythographus Homericus
12.15-13.00 So Miyagawa (University of Göttingen), Quotation from the Psalms and Its Authority in Shenoute’s Monastic Education
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Session 2: Sources and Power
14.15-15.00 Idan Breier (Bar-Ilan University), Direct Quotation as a Rhetorical Device in the Discourse of the Prophets of the Kingdom of Judah
15.00-15.45 Ilaria Andolfi (University of Heidelberg), A Writing Hard to Wash Off: a Reassessment of the Story about Acusilaus and his Bronze Tablets
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-17.00 Francesca Boldrer (University of Macerata), Sacra… canam: Propertius’ Use of Sources in Aetiological-Religious Poetry
18.00-19.00 Keynote Lecture 1: David Wright (Brandeis University), The Covenant Code Narrative: Neo-Assyrian Influences and Context
20.00 Conference Dinner
Friday 12 October 2018
Session 3: Manipulation of Sources
9.30-10.15 Michael Chen (University of California, Los Angeles/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Adapting Ancient Egyptian Healing Spells to Late Period Statuary
10.15-11.00 Mathias Winkler (University of Siegen), The Book of Proverbs: Sources Become Invisible
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15 Daniela Colomo (University of Oxford), Greek Rhetoric and “Fake” Sources: the Case of the Ur-Medea
12.15-13.00 Teresa Röger (University of Cambridge), “Once God Has Spoken; Twice Have I Heard This”: Fragmentation and (Mis-)Quotation in Augustine, City of God 5.8/9
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Session 4: Divine Sources
14.15-15.00 Carlos Gracia Zamacona (University of Glasgow), Divine Words in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (c. 2000-1500 BC)
15.00-15.45 Gina Konstantopoulos (University of Helsinki), These Are of the Mouth of Ea: the Divine Origin of Incantations and the Mesopotamian Exorcist
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-17.00 Ursula Westwood (University of Oxford), Humanly Divine? The Use of Ancient Sources in Josephus’ “Life of Moses” (Jewish Antiquities II-IV) and Plutarch’s Solon
18.00-19.00 Keynote Lecture 2: Stefan Schorn (University of Leuven), Tradition and Imagination in Porphyry’s Description of Jewish Sacrifice
The workshop is hosted by the Collaborative Research Centre 1136, “Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to Classical Islam”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/517150.html).