The Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies
Bookish Circles:
Teaching and learning in the ancient Mediterranean
Part I
A colloquium at
Heythrop College,
University of London
29th-30th July 2016
Torah piety: The development of Torah learning as a focal religious endeavour
Dr Jonathan Gorsky (Heythrop College, University of London )
Programme
Friday 29th July 2016
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"
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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