The ninth Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will be held on 29 July – 3 August 2024. The school offers a five-day introduction to the study of Greek manuscripts through ten reading classes, three library visits and four thematic lectures. The school is intended for students of Classics, Patristics, Theology, Biblical or Byzantine …
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College (Ontario, Canada) announces the opening of a one-year, full-time faculty position in the Department of Classical & Early Christian Studies, to begin August 2024. By the time of the appointment, the candidate should possess a PhD in Classics, early Christianity, or related field, and be competent to teach Latin …
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Lumen et Vita‘s Spring Graduate Conference, “Synodality, Dialogue and Reconciliation,” will be held Saturday, March 16, 2024, at Boston College. This conference will explore the fundamental questions about synodality, dialogue and reconciliation. How does theology inform understandings of synodality, dialogue and reconciliation? How can the practices of ecumenical and interfaith dialogue be lived out by …
Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus: Journeying of Holy Men, Robert Lee Williams, Lexington Books, 2023. In the first century CE, the Jewish Jesus, his followers, and the Pythagorean Apollonius journeyed widely, each to spread their good news. Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus: Journeying of Holy Men argues that the biographers, Luke and Philostratus felt ethically …
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From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman LiteratureBoston University Graduate Student Conference, 27 April 2024 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge) Timon of Phlius famously labeled the Alexandrians “cloistered librarians in the cage of the Muses” (fr. 786 SH = 12D), caricaturing Hellenistic literature as completely bookish and divorced from the …
