The Other in Second Temple Judaism: A Conference in Honor of John J. Collins

 

April 4 and 5, 2008

Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall

Amherst College, Amherst , MA

 

 

Friday, April 4, 2008

            7:30 p.m.  Keynote Address

Carol Newsom, Emory University

“God’s Other: The Intractable Problem of the Gentile King

 in Israelite and Early Jewish Literature”

 

Saturday, April 5, 2008

(9:00 a.m. Coffee and Danish)

 

9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.  Panel 1A

Sam L. Adams, Union Theological Seminary in Richmond

“Poverty and ‘Otherness’ in Second Temple Instructions”

 

Karina Martin Hogan, Fordham University

“Elusive Wisdom and the Other Nations in Baruch”

 

(Coffee Break)

 

11:00 am. - 12:15 p.m.  Panel 1B

Matthew Goff, Florida State University

“Ben Sira and the Peoples of  Israel: Ethnicity and Election in the Book of Ben Sira” 

 

Joel Kaminsky, Smith College

“Israel and the 'Other' in Late Biblical and Early Rabbinic Thought”

 

(Lunch 12:30-1:30:  Lewis Sebring Dining Commons)

 

1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.  Panel 2

Antonios Finitsis, Pacific Lutheran University

“The 'Other' in Early Postexilic Period:
The Argument According to Haggai and Zechariah 1-6”

 

Patricia Ahearne-Kroll, Ohio Weslyan University

“The ‘Other’ in the Study of Second Temple Judaism:

The Question of Jewish Authorship and the Case of Artapanus”

 

Daniel Harlow, Calvin College

“Idolatry and Otherness: Israel and the Nations in the Apocalypse of Abraham”

 

(Short Break)

 

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Concluding Reflections

Susan Ackermann, Dartmouth College

Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale University

Susan Niditch, Amherst College

 

 

(5:30 p.m. Dinner, Lewis Sebring Dining Commons)