Monday, June 26, 2006 (2
P.M. - 4 P.M.)
Benjamin Wright, Lehigh University
Title: "The Use and Interpretation of Biblical Tradition in Ben Sira's
Praise of
the Ancestors"
Monday, September 25, 2006 (4 P.M. - 6 P.M.)
John Marshall, University of Toronto
Title: "I Left you in Crete: Narrative Deception and Social Hierarchy in the Letter to Titus"
Respondent: Arthus Droge, University of Toronto
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 (4 P.M. - 6 P.M.)
Steve Mason, York University
Title: "Josephus as Authority for First-Century Judaea"
Respondent: Philip Harland, York University
Monday, November 13, 2006 (4 P.M. - 6 P.M.)
Sarianna Metso, University of Toronto
Title: "Law Shaping Life: The Reception of Leviticus in the Essene Community"
Respondent: Eileen Schuller, McMaster University
Monday, February 5, 2007 (4 P.M. - 6 P.M.)
Michael Stone, Hebrew University
Title: "The Notion of Authorship and Multiform Writings"
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 (4 P.M. - 6 P.M.)
Yaakov Elman, Yeshiva University
Title: "Why is the World Such a Lousy Place?: The Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Manichaeism and Roman Paganism"
Respondent: James Kugel, Bar Ilan University
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (4 P.M. -
6 P.M.)
Robert A. Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Pursuing the Prescriptural by way of the Pre-biblical"
Respondent: Hindy Najman, University of Toronto
