Conference: Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order

CONFERENCE PROGRAM from Jacob Neusner:

THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED THEOLOGY
BARD COLLEGE

PROGRAM

JUDAIC AND CHRISTIAN VISIONS OF THE SOCIAL ORDER.
DESCRIBING, ANALYZING AND COMPARING SYSTEMS OF THE FORMATIVE AGE


APRIL 27-29 2010

CHAIRED BY
JACOB NEUSNER AND BRUCE D. CHILTON
BARD COLLEGE

This conference is made possible by a grant from the Tammy and Carey Wolchok and Ahavas Tzedek, the Wolchok Family Foundation. The Foundation notes that Carey Robinson Wolchok is a former student of Professor Neusner’s.


THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM (MPR)
AT THE BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER

1:00-1:15 P.M. APRIL 27 2010 WELCOMING REMARKS

Bard College Dean of Faculty and Academic Vice President Michele Dominy

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1:15 P.M.-2:15 P M APRIL 27 2010 HOW DOES RELIGION IMAGINE SOCIETY?

William Scott Green and John T. Fitzgerald
University of Miami

ANCIENT ISRAEL
2:15-3:15 P.M. APRIL 27 2010 FROM THE REPERTOIRE OF THE HEBREW BIBLE: VISIONS OF THE SOCIAL ORDER

Baruch A. Levine
New York University

3:15-3:30 P. M. Coffee Break

JUDAISM
3:30 P.M.- 4:30 P. M. APRIL 27 2010 Visions of the Social Order: the Qumran Library

James C. VanderKam
University of Notre Dame

4:30 - 5:30 P. M. APRIL 27 2010 1 ENOCH’S VAGUE VISIONS OF A FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER; FOILS TO ITS VIVID PORTRAYALS OF THE PRESENT CHAOS

George W. E. Nickelsburg
The University of Iowa

5:30-6:30 p. m. APRIL 27 2010 The Mishnah and Concepts of the Social Order

Alan J. Avery-Peck
College of the Holy Cross


6:30-8:00 P. M.
SUPPER, FACULTY DINING ROOM
KLINE REFECTORY

THE NEXT EVENT TAKES PLACE AT
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM (MPR)
AT THE BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER

8:00-9:00 P M April 27 2010 2010 Six People You Meet in the Synagogue: Visions of Social Order in Early Rabbinic Prayer

Tzvee Zahavy
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

. APRIL 28 2010

9:00-10:00 A.M. APRIL 28 2010 The Social Vision of Rabbinic Judaism

Jacob Neusner
Bard College

10:00 – 10:30 A.M Coffee break

CHRISTIANITY

10:30 – 12 Noon A.M. APRIL 28 Jesus and the Kingdom of God

Bruce D. Chilton
Bard College

12:00-1:00 P M
BUFFET LUNCH

THE NEXT EVENT TAKES PLACE AT
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM (MPR)
AT THE BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER

1:00 – 2:15 P.M. APRIL 28 2010 Paul’s theory of the social order

Bruce D. Chilton
Bard College

2:15 – 3:30 P M April 28 2010 Early Christian Martyrdom, Scripture, and the Social Order

Frederick W. Weidmann
Auburn Theological Seminary

Coffee break 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

4:00 p. m. – 5:00 P M APRIL 28 2010 Origen’s Social Vision of Christian Life

Petra Heldt
Hebrew University

THE NEXT EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN
BITO AUDITORIUM ROOM 103 IN THE
REEM - KAYDEN CENTER

5:00 P M - 6:30 p m APRIL 28 2010 Irenaeus of Lyons (130-200) Re-Imagining the Cosmos From the Perspective of the Oppressed

J.A. McGuckin
Columbia University

6:30-7:45 P M
SUPPER, FACULTY DINING ROOM
KLINE REFECTORY

THE NEXT EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN
BITO AUDITORIUM ROOM 103 IN THE
REEM-KAYDEN CENTER

8:00 – 9:15 p. m. April 28 2010 Eusebius’s (and Constantine’s) theory of the political order

Bruce D. Chilton
Bard College

THE NEXT EVENT TAKES PLACE AT
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM (MPR)
AT THE BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER

9:00 – 10:15 A.M. April 29 2010 Augustine’s theory of world order

J. A. McGuckin
Columbia University

10:15 – 10:30 P.M. coffee break

10:30A.M. – Noon April 29 2010 Concluding discussion: JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: ANSWERING THE QUESTONS OF THE SOCIAL ORDER

William Scott Green and John T. Fitzgerald
University of Miami

12:00-1:15 P M
BOX LUNCH
MULTI PURPOSE ROOM


The Institute of Advanced Theology of Bard College presents this conference. Admission is free, but reservations are advised. To reserve a place write to Theresa Desmond, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y. 12504 5000 or via e mail at desmond@bard.edu.

Please note that all sessions but the one on Wednesday evening are held at the Multi-Purpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center. The session Wednesday evening is at Bito Auditorium Room 103 in the Reem and Kayden Center

Meals: lunches are served in the Multi-Purpose Room, suppers are at the Faculty Dining Room of the Kline refectory. Vegetarian service is available. Kosher meals may be ordered in advance through the office of Theresa Desmond, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y. 12504 5000 or via e mail at desmond@bard.edu.