HERE IS THE SCHEDULE FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIBLICAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM, posted with the kind permission of the organizers, Dr. Lawrence (who, alas, is leaving us for a permanent post at the University of Glasgow in September) and Dr. Aguilar.

Anthropology and Biblical Studies: The Way Forward?

Symposium Itinerary


Monday 7th July

Arrival at Hamilton Hall

7.30pm Dinner at Hamilton Hall

Tuesday 8th July

All symposium papers will be given in St Mary�s College Hall, St Mary�s College, South Street.


9.30am: Introduction

Dr Louise Lawrence (University of St Andrews): �A Taste for the Other�: Thoughts on Interpreting Biblical Texts Anthropologically

10.30am: Paper 1

Prof. Philip Esler (University of St Andrews): The Context Group Project

11.30 am: Coffee (Served in Senior Common Room)


12noon: Paper 2

Prof. Douglas Davies (University of Durham): An Anthropologist�s View of Acts

1pm: Lunch (Served in Senior Common Room)

2pm: Paper 3

Dr. Nathan MacDonald (University of St Andrews): Abraham's Purchase of the Cave of Machpelah and Anthropological Theories of Exchange

3pm: Afternoon Tea (Served in Senior Common Room)

3.30pm: Paper 4

Mr Timothy Ling (Canterbury Christ Church College): Virtuoso Religion and the Judean Social Order

4.30pm: Paper 5

Mr Albert Hogetorp (University of Gottingen): Anthropology and the Community as a Temple in Paul�s Letters: The Case of Cultic Terms in 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

7 for 7.30pm: Conference Dinner

To be held at The St Andrews Golf Hotel, The Scores, St Andrews.

As you come out of the main door of Hamilton Hall, turn right around the corner. Follow the road up the Scores and the St Andrews Golf Hotel is on your right.

Wednesday 9th July


9.30am: Paper 6

Dr Mario Aguilar (University of St Andrews): Changing Models and the Death of Culture: A Diachronic Critique of Socio-Scientific Assumptions

10.30am : Paper 7

Dr Jim Davila (University of St Andrews): Ritual in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha

11.30 am : Coffee (Served in Senior Common Room)


12noon: Paper 8

Dr Seth Sanders (University of Chicago): Textual Criticism and the Study of Ritual: Parallel Literary Editions of Joshua as Arguments about the Conquest and Cosmic Geography of Israel


1pm Lunch (Served in Senior Common Room)



2pm: Paper 9

Ms Karen Wennel (University of Glasgow): Jesus and the Land : A Comparison of Second-Temple Judaism�s view of the Land and Colonised Maori Land.


3pm: Afternoon Tea (Served in Senior Common Room)

Departures.

Great conference. Thanks Mario, Louise, and all the participants!