Books and Readers in Egyptian Monasticism

The 2014 NEWCONT Workshop

Programme

Tuesday 2. December (Georg Sverdrups hus, grupperom 7)

0900 - 0930 - Welcome

0930 - 1015 - Stephen Emmel (Münster): “What Can the 'Old Coptic' Texts Tell Us about the Creation of the Coptic Writing System?”

1015 - 1100 - Dylan Burns (Leipzig): “Greeks, Copts, and Graeco-Coptic at Nag Hammadi”

1100 - 1115 - Coffee Break

1115 - 1200 - Alexandros Tsakos (Bergen): “Coptic, Greek, and Old Nubian Texts in Nubian Monasteries: Where? What? When? Why?”

1200 - 1300 - Lunch

1300 - 1345 - Eric Crégheur (Quebec City): "The Many Codicological Problems of the Bruce Codex/Codices"

1345 - 1430 - Brent Nongbri (Sydney): “On the Dates of P.Bodmer II, P.Bodmer XIV-XV, and the Bodmer "Miscellaneous" or "Composite" Codex”

1430 - 1445 - Coffee Break

1445 - 1530 - Christoph Markschies (Berlin): “Debates on God’s Body in Egyptian Monasticism”

1530 - 1615 - Blossom Stefaniw (Mainz): “Reading, Your Belly, Your Soul, and Books in Evagrius”

1615 - 1630 - Coffee Break

1630 - 1715 - Lance Jenott (Oslo): “Variant Readings and Christology in the Apocalypse of James”

1715 - 1800 - Hugo Lundhaug (Oslo): “On the Dates of the Nag Hammadi Codices”

1900 - Dinner

Wednesday 3. December (Georg Sverdrups hus, grupperom 1)

0900 - 0945 - Christian Askeland (Marion, IN): “NHC VI, 5: Was the Coptic translator of Plato’s Republic an idiot?”

0945 - 1030 - Christian Bull (Oslo): “Trample the Images! A Monastic Reading of Plato’s Republic.”

1030 - 1045 - Coffee Break

1045 - 1130 - Kristine Toft Rosland (Oslo): “Biblical Allusions in the Apocryphon of John.”

1130 - 1215 - René Falkenberg (Aarhus): "Para- and Intratextual Features in Nag Hammadi Codex III"

1215 - 1315 - Lunch

1315 - 1400 - Paula Tutty (Oslo): “Books of the Dead, or Books with the Dead?”

1400 - 1415 - Conclusion and information

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