Lost in Translation Conference

LOST IN TRANSLATION: STUDIES OF THE SEPTUAGINT AND BEYOND IN HONOUR OF JENNY DINES
A One Day Conference
Heythrop College, University of London

All papers will take place in the Walker Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building


Wednesday 24th of June 2009
9:30-10:10:
Registration and Tea/Coffee (Walker Room)

The morning papers will be chaired by Dr Ann Jeffers, Heythrop College.

10:10:
Introduction

10:10-10:50:
Sarah Pearce, University of Southampton
"Philo's 'Family Values'".

10:50-11:30:
Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham
The Qumran Yahad in Recent Scholarship.

11:30-12:20:
Tessa Rajak, University of Reading
'Ancestral Laws: What Josephus Made of the Greek Bible.'

12:20-1:00:
Deborah Rooke, King’s College, London
‘Susanna in Handel's Oratorio’.

Lunch – provided (Walker Room)

The afternoon papers will be chaired by Dr Bridget Gilfillan Upton

1:50-2:30:
Jim Aitken, CJCR, Cambridge
'The Septuagint and "Alexandrian" scholarship'.

2:30-3:10:
Gillian Greenberg, University College London
'Literary Initiative in the Peshitta'.

3:10-3:50:
Sean Ryan, Heythrop College.
‘Dislocated Locusts: Re-visions of Joel
& Amos in Revelation 9’

3:50-4:30:
Jonathan Norton, Heythrop College.
‘Psuche, Pneuma, and Paul's Rhetorical Surprise’.

4:30 Tea and departure

For registration, please contact:
Ms Mariann Jakab
Heythrop College
University of London
Kensington Square
London W8 5HQ
m.jakab@heythrop.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7795 4201