International Conference: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity

Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity
International Conference
Ebeltoft, Denmark
31 May – 4 June 2010

Further Information:
Conference website and registration:
www.relnorm.au.dk/en/may2010conf/presentation

The conference explores questions such as: How did ancient religious texts and traditions attain normative and canonical status? Which ideological and rhetorical strategies were used in the struggle for the normative status of specific texts and traditions? Discussions will take place under these five headings:
1. Reuse, Rewriting and Usurpation of Biblical and Classical Texts
2. Invention and Maintenance of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 3. Orthodoxy and Heresy
4. Formation of the Biblical Canon
5. Canons, Classics and Foundation Texts in Antiquity: A Comparative Perspective