PSCO
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its fiftieth-eighth year under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Cohen Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104
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Schedule
2014–2015 Topic:
“Formative Figures and Paths Not Taken:
The Study of Ancient Judaism and Christianity between History and Historiography”
We have two recent additions to our schedule — on March 26 and April 28.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will be held in the Second Floor Lounge of Cohen Hall at the University of Pennsylvania and will run from 7:00-9:00 p.m., preceded by an informal dinner.
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Thursday, 2 Oct. 2014 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Jacob Taubes, Michael Wyschogrod, and radical Jewish approaches to Paul
and ‘early Christianity’ ” John Gager (Princeton University) |
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Thursday, 6 Nov. 2014 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Reflections on James A. Montgomery (1866-1949)” Stefan Schorch (Martin Luther University of Halle; Katz Center) |
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Thursday, 11 Dec. 2014 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“William Wotton (1666–1727) and the
Christian recovery of the Mishnah in early modern Europe” David Ruderman (Penn) |
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Thursday, 19 Feb. 2015 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Reflections on
Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930)” Robert A. Kraft (Penn) and Christian Wiese (Frankfurt am Main, Goethe University; Katz Center) |
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Thursday, 19 March 2015 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“New Testament Apocrypha and Christian Origins
from John Toland (1670–1722) to William Hone (1780–1842)” Annette Yoshiko Reed (Penn; Katz Center) |
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Thursday, 26 March 2015 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Jewish Communities in the Roman Diaspora: Why Salo Baron Still Matters” Seth Schwartz (Columbia University) |
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Thursday, 16 April 2015 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) and Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918) on Prophets and Sacrifice” Alisha Pomazon (St. Thomas More) |
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, room 402, Penn |
“David Stern's Scholarship on and beyond Midrash” Panel: Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton), Peter Stallybrass (Penn), and Azzan Yadin-Israel (Rutgers) |
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