TRUTH, LIES & LANGUAGE
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​March 11 - 13, 2018

SPEAKERS

James K. Aitken (University of Cambridge)
"Greek as a Religious Language for Egyptians and Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt"

Kengo Akiyama (UC Davis)
​“Looking for the Line: On the Production and the Reception of the Greek Bible” 

Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)“Speaking of Prophecy: Discourse on Divination and Truth in Early Judaism and Early Christianity”

Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska)
"The Greek of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What it Reveals"

Erich S. Gruen (UC Berkeley)
"Philo and Greek Myth" 

Ronald Hendel (UC Berkeley)
"Truth, Language, and the Tower of Babel" 

Naomi Janowitz  (UC Davis)
“Late Antique Linguistic Ideologies and the Limits of Languages”

Robert A. Kraft (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Mathematics of Apocalyptic Imagination: The 666 Mark of Identity in Greek Christianity"

Judith H. Newman (University of Toronto)
"Trickery as a Virtue? Reassessing the Language of Judith"

Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)
"Hiding the Word: Frustrated Communication in the Synoptics and John"
 
Jacqueline Vayntrub (Brandeis University)
“'A Daughter who ‘Knows the Course of the Stars’: Gender and Knowledge Transmission in Ancient Mediterranean Wisdom and Narrative”

Benjamin G. Wright III (Lehigh University)
“Ben Sira and Cat Stevens: The Authority to Stand in the River of Tradition”

Jed D. Wyrick (CSU Chico) 

“The Ordering and Disordering of Language and Place in Greco-Judaean Texts from Egypt”


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