PSCO		Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar in its thirty-sixth year under the auspices of The University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies Box 36 College Hall, Philadelphia 19104
Next Event Current Topic Schedule Who We Are Contacts History Archives Map 1998-1999		Steve Friesen, University of Missouri-Columbia "'Find, Open, Read and Observe': Judaism in the Synagogues of Asia Minor during Late Antiquity" THE FOURTH MEETING OF 1998-99 will be held on Thursday, February 18th from 7-9 pm in the Lounge on the second floor of Logan Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. Persons wishing to dine with other participants prior to the meeting should meet at 6 pm at Logan Hall (southeast of Locust Walk and 36th Street Walk). Take-out food (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) will be provided. Cost is $7 per person. Please RSVP to either chairperson (adresses above), if possible, so that we might have a rough idea of how much food to arrange. Recommended Readings Feldman, Louis. 1996. "Diaspora Synagogues: New Light from Inscriptions and Papyri" In Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, ed. S. Fine. New York: Oxford University Press, 48-94. -----. Fine, Steven. 1998. This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of Synagogues During the Greco-Roman Period, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 28-29, 43-45, 137-157. Fine, Steven, and Leonard Victor Rutgers. 1996. "New Light on Judaism in Asia Minor during Late Antiquity: Two Recently Identified Inscribed Menorahs." Jewish Studies Quarterly. 3.1:1-23. Seager, Andrew R. 1981. "The Synagogue at Sardis." In Ancient Synagogues Revealed, ed. L. I. Levine. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society. 178-184. 1/15/1999 Jay Treat