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"In Conversation with Roger Bagnall —
Early Judaism and Early Christianity in Greco-Roman Egypt:
the Papyrological Evidence"
Roger Bagnall (Columbia University)
Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania)
THE THIRD MEETING OF 1999-2000 will be held on Thursday, 2 December
from 7:00-9:00 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 $7-10 per person.
Please RSVP to either chairperson (addresses above), if possible, so that
we might have a rough idea of how much food to arrange.
This meeting will be broadcast live on the web
so that colleagues unable
to attend in person can participate from a distance. Virtual participants
will be able to see the presentation and to send questions and comments to
the meeting using email. For more information, please consult
the webcast page.
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Suggested Topics
for Discussion and Suggested Readings:
- Identifying people and their affiliations as a methodology:
the principles of onomastics.
R. S. Bagnall, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (London 1995) 85-89
(with earlier bibliography).
I. F. Fikhman, Scripta Classica Israelica 15 (1996) 223-229.
- Thinking quantitatively about models of growth:
continuous incrementalism vs. punctuated equilibrium?
Bagnall, Reading Papyri 73-85 (about quantification and the papyri);
R. Stark, The Rise of Christianity (Princeton 1996), chapter 6.
- Monasticism and the economy:
implications for the social locations of asceticism.
E. Wipszycka, "Contribution a l'etude de l'economie de la congregation
pachomienne," Journal of Juristic Papyrology 26 (1996) 167-210.
- Reasoning from books to beliefs: questions of method.
C. H. Roberts and T. C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (London 1983);
H. Y. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church (New Haven 1995);
T. C. Skeat, New Testament Studies 43 (1997) 1-34.
- Structures, titles, practices, and power: thinking about Egyptian cults.
D. Frankfurter, Religion in Roman Egypt (Princeton 1998).
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2 December, 1999
Jay Treat
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