PSCO

Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins

an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its forty-ninth year under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Cohen Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104

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Thanks to the generous labor of our secretaries, archived minutes are available for the following years of PSCO. Other archives are in the process of preparation. For a complete list of topics, see the History file.

Year 01
Year 02
Year 03 "Gospel Tradition in the Second Century" (1965-66)
Year 04 "'Orthodoxy' and 'Heresy' in Early Christianity" (1966-67)
Year 05
Year 06
Year 07 "Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity" (1969-70)
Year 08 "Jewish-Christian Relations" (1970-71)
Year 09
Year 10 "Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John" (1972-73)
Year 11 "Creation -- Images Old and New" (1973-74)
Year 12 "Early Christianity in North Africa" (1974-75)
Year 13 "Current Approaches to Christian Origins" (1975-76)
Year 14 "Magic: the Phenomenon and the Issue in the Graeco-Roman World," (1976-77)
Year 15 "Heavenly Ascent in Graeco-Roman Piety" (1977-78)
Year 16 "Ancient School Activity in Alexandria and Rome" (1978-79)
Year 17 "Philo of Alexandria in Relation to Ancient 'School Tradition' Speculation" (1979-80)
Years 18-19 "Marcel Simon's Verus Israel" (1980-82)
Year 20
Year 21
Year 22 "Origen's Contra Celsum" (1984-85)
Year 23
Year 24
Year 25 "Principalities and Powers: Demons and Angels in the World of Late Antiquity" (1987-88)
Years 26-34

In addition, here is a record of presentations announced within the last few years.

Year 35 "Textual Commentary as Social Practice" (1997-1998)
Year 36 "Religious Identities in Asia Minor in the First through the Fourth Centuries CE" (1998-1999)
Year 37 "Ethnicity, Regionalism and Religious Developments in Late Antique Egypt" (1999-2000)
Year 38 "The Wild Wild West: Religious and Societal Transformations on the North African Frontier" (2000-2001)
Year 39 "On Location: How Do Martyrdoms Take Place?" (2001-2002)
Year 40 "Parabiblical Literature" (2002-2003)
Year 41 "Parabiblical Prosopography (in the footsteps of Lost Apocrypha by M. R. James)" (2003-2004)
Year 42 "The Impact of Astrological (and Related) Traditions on Early Jewish and Christian Perspective" (2004-2005)
Year 43 "Redescribing the Holy Man: Theoretical Frameworks and Specific Applications" (2005-2006)
Year 44 "Re-thinking History, Theory, and Texts: New Theoretical and Methodological Endeavors" (2006-2007)
Year 45 "Tracing the Patterns, (Un/Re-)Weaving the Threads" (2007-2008)
Year 46 "Food, Self, and Community: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish and Christian Eating" (2008-2009)
Year 47 "Revealing the Divine: From Greco-Roman Palestine to the Persian Empire" (2009-2010)
Year 48 “Beyond Scare Quotes: Rethinking Words and Things in the Study of Ancient ‘Judaism’ and ‘Christianity’” (2010-2011)