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Bookish Circles:
Teaching and learning in the ancient Mediterranean
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Part I

A colloquium at 

Heythrop College,

University of London

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29th-30th July 2016

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Introduction to Bookish Circles, Part I
Dr Jonathan Norton
Director of the Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies
Literacy, teaching and learning in Rabbinic Judaism​
Professor Sacha Stern  (University College, London)
Torah piety: The development of Torah learning as a focal religious endeavour​
Dr Jonathan Gorsky  (Heythrop College, University of London )
Literacy and Aramaic as written language in the Achaemenid Empire​
Professor Ingo Kottsieper  (Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster)
Learning among Jewish social groups in Ptolemaic Egypt​
Dr James K. Aitken  (University of Cambridge)
4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered
Professor Joan Taylor  (King’s College London)
Sympotic learning: Symposia literature and cultural education​
Dr Sean Adams  (University of Glasgow)
Greco-Roman education, 'mental libraries', and the Book of Revelation
Dr Sean Ryan  (Heythrop College, University of London)
Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: a Relevance Theory Perspective​
Dr Steve Smith  (University of Chichester)
not beyond what is written:  How Paul uses literacy to manipulate social differential​
Dr Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London)

Programme

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Friday 29th July 2016

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10:00      Meeting and Coffee

                   

10:45      Welcome and introduction:

        Jonathan Norton, Director of the Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies

                                          

11:00      Sacha Stern, University College London

                 "Literacy, teaching and learning in Rabbinic Judaism"

                    

12:00      Jonathan Gorsky, Heythrop College London

                 "Torah piety: The development of Torah learning as a focal religious endeavour”

                         

13:00      Lunch

                   

14:30      Ingo Kottsieper, Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster

                 “Literacy and Aramaic as written language in the Achaemenid Empire”

                         

15:30      James K. Aitken, University of Cambridge

                 “Learning among Jewish social groups in Ptolemaic Egypt”

                         

16:30      Tea, coffee

                     

17:00      Joan Taylor, King’s College London

                 "4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered"               

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Saturday 30th July 2016

                    

09:30      Tea, coffee

                    

10:00      Sean Adams, University of Glasgow                                           

                 “Sympotic learning: Symposia literature and cultural education”

                    

11:00      Sean Ryan, Heythrop College London                                               

                 "Greco-Roman education, 'mental libraries', and the Book of Revelation"

                       

12:00      Lunch

                            

13:30      Steve Smith, University of Chichester                    

       “Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: a Relevance      

       Theory Perspective”

 

14:30      “…not beyond what is written:  How Paul uses literacy to manipulate social differential"
 

15:30      Departure 

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