1997-1998 Topic: Textual Commentary as Social Practice

25 September		Maxine Grossman, University of Pennsylvania "Textual Strategies, Authoritative Voice, and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
6 November		David Dawson, Haverford College "Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Christian Identity: Origen on Body, History and Narrative"
22 January 1998		Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley "The Bartered Word: Midrash and Symbolic Economy"
19 March 1998		Robert Lamberton, Washington University "Homer, Porphyry, and his Commentaries"
2 April 1998		James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania "Textualizing the World Afresh: The Place of Scriptures in the Latin Church from Augustine to Cassiodorus"
14 May 1998		A Panel of Scholars

3/2/98
Jay Treat