Graduate Studies in Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman 
Period: Topics in the Advanced Seminar RelSt 735
University of Pennsylvania: Religious Studies Department
Robert A. Kraft, coordinator

Summary of Topics in RelSt 735 (formerly RelTh 715)

This Seminar has met formally or informally since 1964, and has 
often attempted to correlate its focus with the announced topics 
of the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins (PSCO) or with 
the Society of Biblical Literature Pseudepigrapha Group (or with 
other pertinent programs).

1964/65 Gospel of Thomas from Nag Hammadi (PSCO, Gnosticism)
1965/66 General Orientation to the Field
1966/67 The Problem of "Heresy" (PSCO, Bauer's Orthodoxy/Heresy)
1967/68 "Jewish Christianity" (PSCO)
1968/69 Use of Jewish Scriptures by Early Christian Authors
1969/70 [Kraft on leave]
1970/71 Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila (ET draft)
1971/72 Paraleipomena Jeremiou (ET draft, Gk ed; SBL Pseudep)
1972/73 University Museum Papyri Collection
1973/74 Greek Jewish Scriptures
1974/75 Ezra Traditions and Apocalypses (ET drafts)
1975/76 [Kraft on leave]
1976/77 Seth Traditions (SBL Pseudep)
1977/78 (with M.E.Stone) Revered Figures in Jewish and Christian 
          Traditions: Seth, Enoch, Moses, Ezra (SBL Pseudep)
1978/79 Greek Jewish Scriptures (NEH Feasability Study)
1979/80 Profiles of Righteous Persons (SBL Pseudep)
1980/81 ?? [check with Ted B. and Ben W.]
1981/82 (with E.Tov) Greek Translation in Antiquity [TedB thinks 80/81]
1982/83 (with M.E.Stone) Translational and Redactional Features 
          in 4 Ezra [TedB thinks 81/82]
1983/84 5-6 Ezra [TedB thinks 82/83; but rak notes dated 83/84]
1984/85 (with E.A.Matter) Origen Against Kelsos (PSCO) and
          Early Latin Translations of Origen: CommMt, HomJeremiah
1985/86 (with E.Tov) Ancient Greek Translation of the Minor Prophets
1986/87 Epistle of Barnabas
1987/88 [Kraft on leave in Fall] Computer Assisted Papyrus 
          Reconstruction
1988/89 Translation Activity in Antiquity, esp. Philo's Etymologies
1989/90 ?? [more Philo??]
1990/91 Joseph and Aseneth
1991/92 Jewish Texts and their Christian Transmitters
1992/93 Recensions
1993/94 Attitudes to "Scripture" in Pseudepigrapha (HBOT Project)
1994/95 Textual Criticism, with focus on CATSS Variants Project
1995/96 [Kraft on sabbatical at CJS]
1996/97 Extracanonical Jeremiah Traditions, esp ParJer, VitProph
        [also Ross Kraemer group on Apocryphal Acts & Women]
1997/98 [with Ross Kraemer] Ancient Sources and Women Studies
1998/99 [with Ross Kraemer] Religion in Ancient Asia Minor
1999/2000 [with Ross Kraemer] Ritual Theory, with Special Attention to Egypt
2000/01 Textual Criticism & Papyrology
2001/02
2002/03