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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Forwarded message: > From [log in to unmask] Wed Feb 28 08:43:34 2007 > X-VirusChecked: Checked > X-Env-Sender: [log in to unmask] > X-Msg-Ref: server-5.tower-98.messagelabs.com!1172670206!37047782!1 > X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7.1; banners=-,-,- > X-Originating-IP: [128.91.2.122] > X-SpamReason: No, hits=0.5 required=7.0 tests=BODY_RANDOM_LONG > Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:43:26 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] > Subject: March 22 PSCO announcement > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 > > PHILADELPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINS in its 44th year an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar under the auspices of the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Department of Religious Studies 201 Logan Hall with support from the Penn Humanities Forum TOPIC FOR 2006-2007: Rethinking History, Theory, and Texts: New Theoretical and Methodological Endeavors Co-Chairs: Debra Bucher (University of Pennsylvania) dbucher AT pobox.upenn.edu Sarah Schwarz (Haverford College ) schwarz.sl AT gmail.com Secretary: Douglas Finkbeiner (University of Pennsylvania) Webmaster: Jay C. Treat (University of Pennsylvania) jtreat AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu > The topic for the 44th year of PSCO is "Re-thinking History, Theory, > and Texts: New Theoretical and Methodological Endeavors." We take our theme > from Elizabeth Clark's recent book, History, Theory Text: Historians and the > Linguistic Turn, in which she attempts to persuade historians of ancient texts, > especially those of early Christianity, "that the texts they study are highly > amenable to the types of literary/philosophical/theoretical critique that have > excited other humanities disciplines under the rubric of post-structuralism" > (p.ix). We are inviting scholars to share current work that utilizes new > theoretical approaches in interpreting ancient Jewish and Christian texts. The next PSCO session will be with Maxine Grossman (University of Maryland) on Thursday, March 22, 2007. The title of her presentation is "Sectarian Poetics: Exploring Identity Formation in the Dead Sea Scrolls." In preparation for the talk, Professor Grossman recommends the following material: 1. Carol Newsom, "Apocalyptic Subjects: Social Construction of the Self in the Qumran Hodayot," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 12 (2001): 3-35. Or in a similar vein, read the Hodayot chapter in her book, _The Self as Symbolic Space_ (Brill, 2004). 2. Maxine Grossman, "Cultivating Identity: Textual Virtuosity and ‘Insider’ Status," in _Proceedings: 2004 International Organization for Qumran Studies_ (Groningen, NL; forthcoming). For a copy of this article, please email Debra Bucher, dbucher AT pobox.upenn.edu. As usual, we will gather at the University of Pennsylvania in Logan Hall (2nd floor lounge) at 6 pm for an informal dinner in the nearby Food Court, and then meet back in the Logan Hall Lounge at 7 pm for Professor Grossman's presentation. For further details on the PSCO and the current year's topic, see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/ Bob Kraft, coordinator -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 [log in to unmask] http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html