Winter 2024
January 8
“Origen, Amelius, and the Hermeneutics of the Johannine Prologue.”
Prof. Ilaria Ramelli, Sacred Heart University, Milan
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 208
March 4
“The Myth of the Logos Revealed at Night: An Exegetical Argument for the Middle Platonizing Unity of the Johannine Narrative”
Jonathan Wegner, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
Autumn 2023
October 2
“The Problem of Miracle”
Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 106
October 6 (Friday)
Library Resources Training for Students in Bible, Reception, and Jewish Studies
Dr. Anne Knafl, Bibliographer for Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, University of Chicago
Co-sponsored with Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop
1:00-2:00 pm, Zoom
October 16
“Paul and Silent Witness in the Preface of Origen’s Contra Celsum“
Emily Barnum, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
October 30
“A New Edition of the Codex Vercellensis Luke Based on Multi-Spectral Images”
Prof. Dr. Annette Weissenrieder, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 200
November 6
“Space, Time, and Magic: Bakhtin’s Theory of Chronotope in Acts”
Allison Barbee, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
November 15 (Wednesday, n.b. new date)
“Sinners, Seductresses, and Sirens: The Many Faces of Female Wickedness”
Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh, University of Chicago
Co-sponsored with Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop
5:15-7:00 pm, Swift 201
December 4
“Physical Space and the Depiction of Christ’s Life in the Pantanassa Monastery at Mystras”
Dr. Richard Zaleski, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 200