Kings and Power Workshop

Please note that lunches will be organized only for the speakers. There are lunch services available near the venue.

Programme

Saturday, December 3rd

10.00–10.15 Welcome
10.15–12.15 Keynote 1 (workshop)
Joan Taylor (King’s College London): Hellenistic Meals in Philo’s De vita con-templativa
12.15–13.00 Lunch break
13.00–15.00 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)
Vasile Babota (Pontifical Gregorian University): Alexander Janneus as High Priest and King. Struggling Between Jewish and Hellenistic Concepts of Rule
Erkki Koskenniemi (Åbo Akademi University): Kings, Judges or Elders?
Jed Wyrick (California State University, Chico): The Peri Ioudaiôn of Arta-panus as Court Literature
Simon Krause-Heiber (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): The Transformation of Power Struc-tures in the Books of Esther
15.00–15.30 Coffee/tea served at the venue

15.30–17.30 Four short papers (30 min / paper including discussion)
Joshua Scott (University of Michigan): Oppressive Kings as Fallen Angels: The Theological Recasting of (Jewish) Kings in the Parables of Enoch
Blaženka Scheuer (Lund University): Eminence and Gender: Hellenism at the roots of Megillah 14b?
Hanna Tervanotko (University of Helsinki & KU Leuven) and Elisa Uusimäki (University of Helsinki & Yale Divinity School): Sarah the Princess – Tracing the Hellenistic Afterlife of a Pentateuchal Female Figure
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa (University of Helsinki): Sovereignty in Transition: God vs. Pious Reason as the Absolute Ruler in 2 and 4 Maccabees
17.30–18.00 Conclusion for the first day (Tuukka Kauhanen)

Sunday, December 4th
10.00–12.00 Keynote 2 (workshop)
Katell Berthelot (CNRS – Aix-Marseille University), The Hasmonean dynasty as a type of Hellenistic Kingship
12.00–12.45 Lunch break
12.45–13.15 Short paper
Joan Taylor (King’s College London), The Synagogue of the Therapeutae
13.15–14.00 Panel discussion/conclusion (Tuukka Kauhanen)
Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact
Tuukka Kauhanen (tuukka.kauhanen@helsinki.fi) or Elisa Uusimäki (elisa.uusimaki@helsinki.fi).