It’s About Time! Rethinking Temporality in Early Judaism

Thursday afternoon, 1-6 pmMatthias Henze, Rice University (co-convener)“Genesis 1, Time, and the Sense of a Beginning”

George Brooke, University of Manchester“'At the still point, there the dance is': temporal variety and creativity in the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls”

Hindy Najman, Oxford University “Overcoming the Present in Ancient Judaism”

Ann Jervis, Wycli�e College“Enough Already/Not Yet, Already! Another Perspective on Paul’s View of Time”

Friday morning, 9-1 pmLoren Stuckenbruck, University of Munich “Jesus and Eschatology: the Notion of God's Presence in the Second Temple Period”

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham University "Quotidian Time in Philo's Calendar"

Judith Newman, University of Toronto (co-convener)“Accessing Eternity: Transforming Time through Speech and Blessing in Early Judaism”

This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Centre for Religion and its Contexts

Emmanuel Collegeof Victoria University in the University of Toronto

Room 107

June 9-10, 2016

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Image source: Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC). CERN website