14:15-16:00 | Join Zoom: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66134846795 Curating Knowledge in the Lessons from the Tura Papyri The Christian Orient Research Group at Aarhus University is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Dr Blossom Stefaniw, Heisenberg Fellow, DFG
09:15-11:30 | Aarhus University, 1453 - 415, Bed og Arbejd Reading the Gospel of John with Origen of Alexandria: Problems, Solutions, and the Breast of Jesus Postdoc Miriam Jane de Cock
In this presentation, I will first outline Origen's hermeneutical principles and his articulation of the ideal reader of the fourth Gospel, as presented in the preface to his Commentary on John. I will then examine his treatment of two specific Johannine passages, the "cleansing" of the temple in John 2, and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. These in order to explore how the Alexandrian dealt with the problems presented to him by John's differences from the Synoptic Gospels, and how he negotiated what he considered to be the limitations of scripture, including John, the most spiritual of Gospels.
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09:15-11:30 | Reading the Gospel of John with Origen of Alexandria: Problems, Solutions, and the Breast of Jesus In this presentation, I will first outline Origen's hermeneutical principles and his articulation of the ideal reader of the fourth Gospel, as presented in the preface to his Commentary on John. I will then examine his treatment of two specific Johannine passages, the "cleansing" of the temple in John 2, and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. These in order to explore how the Alexandrian dealt with the problems presented to him by John's differences from the Synoptic Gospels, and how he negotiated what he considered to be the limitations of scripture, including John, the most spiritual of Gospels.
15:00-17:00 | Aarhus University, Nobelparken, 1453-415
David G.K. Taylor: The Reception and After-Life of the Teaching of Addai This paper will seek to move beyond standard academic discussions about whether or not the legend of the conversion of King Abgar of Edessa and the missionary activities of the Apostle Addai, as described in the Doctrina Addai, preserve any historical information. Instead it will examine the ways in which this legend was received and transmitted within the three major Syriac confessional groups, in a variety of literary genres. This examination will shine light on significant confessional differences, and will also call into question the dominant role that this text has had in framing the self-understanding and dominant discourses of the academic discipline of Syriac studies.
David Taylor er Associate Professor of Aramaic and Syriac ved Oriental Institute, Oxford University og Fellow of Wolfson College
14:15-17:00 | 1451-331 Bringing Heresy Down from Paradise to Mosul: Authorial Attribution and Historical Background of Moses bar Kepha’s Heresiology
(Ninth-Century Iraq)
Flavia Ruani
IRHT, CNRS, Paris
