Final Conference: Jews, Christians and Pagans in Antiquity – Critique and Apologetic
Time: 22-26 January 2007
Venue: Hotel Ebeltoft Strand
- Programme
- List of participants (MS Excel)
Programme
| Subject | Speaker | Respondent | Chair | |
| Monday 22 January | ||||
| 17.00h | Welcome/Opening | Anders-Christian Jacobsen | ||
| 18.30h | Dinner | |||
| 20.00 – 21.30 | Opening Lecture: Apologetics – some theoretical Conclusions | Anders Klostergaard Petersen | No respondent | Anders-Christian Jacobsen |
| Tuesday 23 January | ||||
| 7.00 - 8.30h | Breakfast | |||
| 9.00 – 10.30h | Jews, Christians and Pagans in Conflict | Judith Lieu | Maren Niehoff | Nils Arne Pedersen |
| 10.30-11.00h | Coffee | |||
| 11.00 – 12.30h | Christians and Jews in Conflict | Eve-Marie Becker | Gunnar Haaland | Nils Arne Pedersen |
| 12.30h | Lunch | |||
| Session I 14.00 – 15.30h | Apologetics in Rabbinics | Friedrich Avemarie | No respondent | Anders Klostergaard Petersen |
| Session II 14.00 – 15.30h | Criticism of Christianity in Greek and Roman Sources | Oda Wischmeyer | Nils Arne Pedersen | Jakob Engberg |
| 15.30-16.00h | Coffee | |||
| 16.00 – 17.30h | Main Topics in Christian Apologetics | Anders-Christian Jacobsen | Aage Pilgaard | Jakob Engberg |
| 18.00h | Dinner | |||
| 20.00-21.30h | Canonising and Normativising of Early Christian Texts | Bart Ehrman | No respondent | Anders Klostergaard Petersen |
| Wednesday 24 January | ||||
| 7.00-8.30h | Breakfast | |||
| Session I 9.00 – 10.30h | Jewish Apologetics in Josephus, Contra Apionem | John Barclay | Troels Engberg-Pedersen | Turid Karlsen Seim |
| Session II 9.00 – 10.30h | Apologetics in the New Testament | Loveday Alexander | Niels Willert | Halvor Moxnes |
| 10.30-11.00h | Coffee | |||
| Session I 11.00 – 12.30h | Scared to Believe: The Apologetics of Fear and Intimidation in Early Christian Apocryphal Texts | Timothy Horner | Jesper Hyldahl | Turid Karlsen Seim |
| Session II 11.00 – 12.30h | Apologetic Motifs in Athanasios | Uta Heil | Samuel Rubenson | Halvor Moxnes |
| 12.30h | Lunch | |||
| 13.30h | Excursion to Mols and Aarhus | Jakob Engberg | ||
| 19.00 h | Dinner | |||
| Evening | ||||
| Thursday 25 January | ||||
| 7.00-8.30h | Breakfast | |||
| Session I 9.00 – 10.30h | Apologetic Motifs in Gnostic Texts | Barbara Aland | Jan Dochhorn | Jesper Hyldahl |
| Session II 9.00 – 10.30h | Lactantius as Apologist | Maijastina Kahlos | Svend Erik Mathiassen | Jörg Ulrich |
| 10.30-11.00h | Coffee | |||
| Session I 11.00 – 12.30h | Prayer and Cult as a Theme of Early Christian Apologetics | Lorenzo Perrone | Einar Thomassen | Jesper Hyldahl |
| Session II 11.00 – 12.30h | Augustin as Apologist | Karla Pollmann | Stephen Lake | Jörg Ulrich |
| 12.30h | Lunch | |||
| 14.00 – 15.30h | The Christian Martyr-literature and Apologetics | Jakob Engberg | David Brakke | Marie Verdoner |
| 15.30-16.00h | Coffee | |||
| 16.00 – 17.30h | Plenum: Conclusions | Anders-Christian Jacobsen | ||
| 18.00h | Dinner | |||
| 20.00-21.30h | Apologetics and Orthodoxy | Jörg Ulrich | No respondent | Einar Thomassen |
| Friday 26 January | Departure | |||
| 7.00-9.00h | Breakfast |
For further information, please contact Associate Professor Anders-Christian Jacobsen, e-mail: alj@teo.au.dk