Patristica Bostoniensia

2009-2010 Schedule

September 17: Paul Kolbet, Augustine Among the Ancient Therapists  
October 15: Lawrence M. Wills, Jerome’s Divergent Judith: An Independent Tradition? 
November 17: Annewies van den Hoek, The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in Christian Literature and Art
December 10: Giovanni Bazzana, CUCURBITA SUPER CAPUT IONAE Translation and Theology in the Old Latin Tradition
February 25: Maureen A. Tilley, Developing Doctrines of Donatism 
March 4: Sidney H. Griffith, St. Ephraem the Syrian, the Qur’an, and the Grapevines of Paradise: An Essay in Comparative Eschatology

2008-2009 Schedule

September 18, Charles Stang, Simeon Stylites and the Geometry of Ascetic Practice
October 16, John Herrmann, Simeon Stylites and Churches of His North Syrian Neighborhood
November 13, Ute Possekel, An Ancient Case of Rebranding? The Transformation of Harran from a Pagan Cult Center to a Christian Pilgrimage Site
December 11, Sean Freyne, The Gospels of Mark and Matthew in the Setting of Phoenicia and Syria
February 19, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Sabbath Law and Mishnah Shabbat in Origen's De Principiis
March 19, Ruth Langer, The Early History of the Birkat Haminim
April 30, Euthymios Soulogiannis, The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, sponsored by the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)

2007-2008 Schedule

September 20: Paul Kolbet Disfigurement and Torture in Origen's Thought and Practice
October 18: Annewies van den Hoek & John Herrmann, Celsus' Competing Heroes: Jonah, Daniel, and Their Rivals
November 15: Susan R. Holman, Out of the Fitting Room: Rethinking Patristic Social Texts on “The Common Good”
December 20: TBA, TBA (See January 17, 2008)
January 17: Laura Nasrallah, The Earthen Human, the Breathing Statue: The Sculptor God, Greco-Roman Statuary, and Clement of Alexandria
February 14: Robert J. Daly, S.J., Sacrifice and Atonement in Early Christianity
March 10: David Frankfurter, Domestic Devotion and Religious Change: Theoretical Perspectives and the Christianization of Egypt
April 17: Louis Demos The Martyr and Bride of Christ: Hagiography and Romance in Eustratios of Constantinople's "Passio Golindouch".

2006-2007 Schedule

September 21: Susan Holman Sick Children in Sophronius of Jerusalem's 'Miracles of Ss. Cyrus and John'
October 26: John Herrmann & Annewies van den Hoek
St. Paul¹s outside-the-walls, Rome: New Studies of the Old Basilica
November 16: Maria Aguilar, Darkness Came Over the Land: Acedia and Meditation on the Cross in the Ascetic Works of Evagrius Ponticus
December 14: Arthur Urbano, Antony of Egypt: A True Philosopher in an Unlikely Place
January 18: Elizabeth Penland Eusebius and the Caesarean School: Evaluating the Evidence of the Martyrs of Palestine
February 15: Gary A. Anderson Almsgiving in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
March 14: John G. Gager Christians, Jews, and the Late Antique Synagogue
April 19: Marian Gh. Simion Balkan Ghosts: Byzantine Orthodoxy and Manichaean Dualism

2005-2006 Schedule

September 22: François Bovon An Unpublished Fragment of the Acts of Peter?
October 20: Annewies van den Hoek The Endicott Scroll: An Unpublished Greek Manuscript and Its Place in the History of Private Communion Prayers
November 17: Demetrios Katos Forensic Oratory in the Dialogue on the Life of
St. John Chrysostom
December 15, Laura Nasrallah, Justin and Athenagoras Talk to the Empire:
Rethinking the Category of Apologetic
February 16: AnneMarie Luijendijk Papyri from the Time of the Persecutions: Roman and Christian Perspectives
March 16: Thomas Cattoi Cosmic Order in the Flesh - Maximus the Confessor and the Christocentric Turn in Natural Theology
April 27: Paul Kolbet Imperial Bishops and the Problem of Christian Identity: a Case Study of Augustine of Hippo

2004-2005 Schedule

September 23: Annewies Van Den Hoek, Apologetic and Protreptic Discourse in Clement of Alexandria
October 21: Dieter Winkler, East Syriac ('Nestorian') Christologies in the 7th Century.
November 18: David Stephens, The Nazianzean Argument of the Third Oration, Oration XXIX, 13-16 – A Critique of the Logic.
December 9: Laura Nasrallah, Empire and Apocalypse in Thessaloniki: Interpreting the Early Christian Rotunda (Church of St. George).
January 20: Robert J. Daly, The Development of Trinitarian Theology in Early Christian Anaphora.
February 17: Annemarie Luijendijk, Christians and Christian Identity in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.
March 17: Jennifer Knust, Jesus, An Adulteress, and the Development of Christian Scripture.
April 15: Meeting in Conjunction with the Pappas Foundation, Appraisal of the State of the Patristic Field.

2003-2004 Schedule

Sept. 25 Annewies van den Hoek Peter, Paul, and the Consul: Images of Officials on African Slip Ware
Oct. 23 Sabrina Inowlocki Eusebius' Use and Abuse of Philo: The Case of the Legatio ad Caium
Nov. 13 Nicholas Constas The Last Temptation of Satan: Divine Deception in Greek Patristic Interpretations of the Passion Narrative
Dec. 18 James Skedros The Greek Fathers on the Lives of the Saints: Some Considerations
Jan. 29 Ute Possekel Bardaisan of Edessa on the Resurrection: Early Syriac Eschatology in its Religious-Historical Context
Feb. 19 John Townsend Christianity in Rabbinic Literature
Mar. 18 Paul Kolbet Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Reception and Transformation of a Classical Ideal
Apr. 22 Demetrios Katos Origenism in the Desert: Palladius of Helenopolis and the Alexandrian Theological Tradition

2002-2003 Schedule

Sept. 26 John Herrmann Alahan Monastery: An Early Byzantine Monument in South Central Turkey
Oct. 17 Khaled Anatolius Trinitarian Hermeneutics in Athanasius
Nov. 14 Susan Holman Rich City Burning: Social Welfare and Ecclesial Insecurities in Basil's Homily 21
Dec. 12 Denise Buell A New People with a Past: Early Christian Experiments in Ethnography
Jan. 30 Miguel Herrero From Helicon to Sion: Some Aspects of the Shaping of Paganism in the Protrepticus of Clement of Alexandria.
Feb. 20 Daniel Caner Spreading the Blessings?: Material Eulogiai and Divine Economy.
Mar. 20 Nicholas Constas "The Ears of the Virginal Body": the Poetics of Sound in the School of Proclus
Apr. 10 Joan R. Branham The Temple that Won't Quit: Constructing Sacred Space in Ancient Judaism, Medieval Christianity, and Florida's Theme Parks.

2001-2002 Schedule

Sept. 20 Robin Jensen and Patout Burns A Pilgrimage to the Land of Augustine: Christian Sites in Modern Algeria (Hippo, Madauros, and Tipasa)
Oct. 25 James Ernest The Bible in Athanasius
Nov. 15 Andrew McGowan 'A Third Race' Or Not: The Rhetoric of Ethnic Self-definition in the Christian Apologists
Dec. 13 Annewies van den Hoek and John Herrmann Thecla, the Beast Fighter. A Female Emblem of Deliverance in Early Christian Popular Art
Jan. 24 Annewies van den Hoek Alexandria: Topography, Monuments, and Celebreties
Febr. 21 Leonard Maluf The Two Boats in Lk 5:1-11. Reflections on Bede's Allegorical Interpretation of the Lukan Narrative
March 21 Susan Graham Paul and the Apostolic Preaching: Rom 9-11 in Irenaeus's Epideixis
April 18 Jennifer Knust A Depraved Empire and the Licentious Heretics: Sexualized Invective in Christian Apology

2000-2001 Schedule

Sept. 28 Robin Jensen Prayers for the Dead. Funerary Mosaics in Christian North Africa. Visit the photo gallery from this meeting!
Oct. 19 Kenneth Fisher Transsexual or Gender Themes in the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis?
Nov. 9 Kelly McCarthy Spoerl Translation Workshop--Fragments of Marcellus of Ancyra.
Dec. 14 Annewies van den Hoek Philo and Origen: A Descriptive Catalogue of their Relationship.
Feb. 1 Gary Anderson Balancing the Heavenly Books: Sin as the Accumulation of Debt in Second Temple Judaism and Late Antique Christianity.
Feb. 22 François Bovon Mary Magdalene and Women's Ministry in the Acts of Philip.
Mar. 22 Nicholas Constas "Vanity of Vanities"? Solomon's Trilogy and the Patristic Subversion of Scripture.
Apr. 19 Luc Herren "He Has Brought Down the Powerful from their Thrones": The Use of the Magnificat around 400 CE 

Patristica Bostoniensia 1999-2000

September 23 - Nicholas Constas, An Apology for the Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity: Eustratius Presbyter of Constantinople, De Statu Animarum post Mortem
October 21 - Joseph Lienhard, S.J., Two Theological Traditions and Marcellus of Ancyra's Contra Asterium
November 18 - Annewies van den Hoek, Endowed with Reason of Glued to the Senses: Philo's Thoughts on Adam and Eve
December 16 - Lloyd G. Patterson (posthumously), PLEROMA: the Human Plenitude from Irenaeus to Gregory of Nyssa
January 20 - Gary A. Anderson, The Fall of Satan in the Thought of St. Ephrem and John Milton
February 17 - Khaled Anatolios, The Influence of Irenaeus on Athanasius
March 16 - Dennis Trout, Damasus and the Invention of Christian Rome
April 13 - Eric Junod, Veritas and Voluntas Auctoris in Augustine's Confessions, Book 12: An Original and Provocative Hermeneutical Distinction

Patristica Bostoniensia 1998-1999

September 24 - Susan Holman, The Entitled Poor: Relief Language in Gregory of Nyssa's and Gregory of Nazianzus's Peri Philoptochias
October 22 - Paul Peterson, Rude of Speech: Paul's Rhetorical Expertise, According to the Fathers
November 12 - Annewies van den Hoek and John Herrmann, Paulinus and His Building Program in Cimitile
December 10 - Robin Jensen, The Eucharistic Liturgy in Hippo's Basilica Maior at the Time of Augustine
January 21 - Pier Franco Beatrice, Chapter One: The Apologetic Project of the Theosophy of: An Introduction to the Theosophy
February 18 - Ute Possekel, Christ as Physician in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian
March 18 - Andrew McGowan, Marcion's Love of Creation
April 18 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, New Sources for Early Christian Pneumatology: Apollinarius of Laodicea's Kata Meros Pistis

Patristica Bostoniensia 1997-1998

September 25 - Khaled Anatolios, Theology and Economy in Origen and Athanasius
October 16 - Susan Holman, “You Speculate on the Misery of the Poor”: Usury as a Social Crime in Basil of Caesarea’s Second Homily on Psalm 14
November 13 - Robert Daly, The Effect of the Anti-Arian Polemic on (Origen's) Eucharistic Spiritualism
December 11 - Michael O'Laughlin, Closing the Gap between Anthony and Evagrius
January 22 - Lloyd Patterson, On Methodius
February 19 - François Bovon, Reasons why Some Patristics Texts Remember -- and Some Don't -- the Lives of the Apostles
March 19 - Annewies van den Hoek, Origen's Role in Formulating Later Christological Language
April 23 - Nicholas Constas, On the Soul 

Patristica Bostoniensia 1996 - 1997

September 25 - Khaled Anatolios, “The Body as Instrument”: A Re-Evaluation of Athanasius’ “Logos-Sarx” Christology
October 17 - Valerie A. Karras, The Mystery of the Trinity Revealed and Experienced: Language, Metaphor and Personhood
November 14 - Robin Jensen, The Trinity and the Creation of Adam and Eve
December 12 - Paul Crego, Timothy the Cat, Theodoret of Cyrus and the Armenian Church
January 23 - Willemien Otten, Christ’s Birth of a Virgin Who Became a Wife: Flesh and Speech in Tertullian’s De Carne Christi
February 20 - Annewies van den Hoek, The Catechetical School of Alexandria and its Philonic Heritage
March 20 - Gary Anderson and Nicholas Constas, In Passionem et Crucem Domini
April 17 - François Bovon, Prayers and Visions in the Recently Discovered Acts of Philip VIII-XV and Martyrdom

Patristica Bostoniensia 1995-1996

September 21 - Robert J. Daly, SJ, The Eucharistic Theology of Pope Gelasius I: A Nontridentine View
October 19 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Anti-Apollinarian Christology
November 19 - Ruth Clements, Peri Pascha in the Context of Origen’s Exegetical Project
December 7 - Paul Crego, Maximux the Confessor’s Life of the Virgin Mary, or, How Long have the Georgians Known that Mary Spoke Georgian at Pentecost?
January 25 - Annewies van den Hoek, The Hymn in Clemens Alexandrinus, Paedagogus III (12) 101,3
February 22 - Gary A. Anderson, The Garments of Glory in Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis
March 21 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Athanasius’ Account of Divine Distinction: Starting from Scratch
April 25 - George Dragas, On Athanasios

Patristica Bostoniensia 1994-1995

September 22 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Anti-Arian Polemic in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical Theology
October 20 - François Bovon, The Gospel of Luke in the Second Century, a.k.a. Une nouvelle citation des Actes de Paul chez Origène
November 10 - Michael O’Laughlin, Evagrius Ponticus in Spiritual Perspective
December 8 - Annewies van den Hoek, Quotation Techniques in Clement of Alexandria: A View of Ancient Literary Working Methods
January 26 - Robin M. Jensen, The Resurrection of Lazarus in Early Christian Theology, Liturgy and Art
February 16 - Valerie Karras, “Flesh of My Flesh” – Greek Patristic Exegesis of the Creation of Eve
March 16 - Nicholas Constas, The Conceptio per aurem in Late Antiquity: Observations on Eve, the Serpent, and Mary’s Ear
April 27 - Malachy Marrion, OCSO, The Goals of the Regula Benedicti: Ultimate, Intermediate, Immediate

Patristica Bostoniensia 1993-1994

September 16 - Michael O’Laughlin, Beyond the Research Phase in Biblical and Patristic Studies
October 14 - ??
November 11 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, What did “Origenism” Mean in the Sixth Century?
December 9 - Khaled Anatolios, Receptivity as an Anthropological and Christological Category in Athanasius
January 20 - Nicholas Constas, Proclus of Constantinople and the Theotokos
February 10 - Valerie Karras, Patristic Views on the Ontology of Gender
March 10 - Robin Jensen, Early Christian North Africa
April 14 - Pamela Jackson, Mystagogy

Patristica Bostoniensia 1992-1993

September 17 - Robin M. Jensen, The Sacrifice of Isaac in Early Christian Iconography: Context and Meaning
October 8 - Lauren Pristas, Cassian’s Teaching on Grace and Free Choice: Conlationes XI-XIII
November 19 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, “Not Nature But Union”: The Origins of a Phrase in Post-Chalcedonian Christology
December 17 - Lloyd G. Patterson, The Divine Became Human: Irenaean Themes in Clement of Alexandria
January 21 - Eleni Simmons, David’s Prayer in St. John Chrysostom’s Explanation of the Psalms
February 18 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Apollinarius and the Liturgy
March 18 - George C. Berthold, Levels of Scriptural Meaning in Maximus the Confessor
April 22 - Pamela Jackson, The Holy Spirit in Lex Supplicandi and Lex Credenti

Patristica Bostoniensia 1991-1992

September 19 - A group discussion of the Oxford Patristics Conference
October 24 - Annewies van den Hoek, Clement of Alexandria on Martyrdom
November 21 - Lloyd Patterson, Methodius’ Millenarianism
December 12 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, Position and Patronage in the Early Church: The Original Meaning of “Primacy of Honor”
January 23 - Paul Crego, Theodoret on the Concept of Free Will
February 20 - James Ayers, “Certum est quia impossibile?” Tertullian’s “Argument from Absurdity” in De Carne Christi 5
March 19 - Pamela Jackson, Liturgical Allusion or Illusion: A Text from Gregory of Nyssa’s De Spiritu Sancto
April 30 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Apollinarius’ Christology and the Anti-Marcellian Tradition

Patristica Bostoniensia 1990 -1991

September - Paul Crego, Some Problems Concerning Nino: Enlightener of the Georgians
October 18 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, A Discussion of G. Christopher Stead’s article, “’Homoousios’ dans la pensée de saint Athanase”
November 4 - Eric Junod, Contesting the Attribution to Origen (made by P. Glaue) of the Interesting Papyrus: Pap. Bibl. Univ. Giss. 17
December 13 - Peter Gilbert, Theological Anthropology in the Poems of St. Gregory the Theologian
January 14 - Michael O’Laughlin, Evagrius Ponticus, Antirrheticus (Selections)
February 14 - Pamela Jackson, Journey-Bread for the Shadow-Lands: The Readings for the Rites of the Catechumenate, RCIA
March 21 - Kelly McCarthy Spoerl, Apollinarius and the Response to Early Arian Christology
April 18 - Lauren Pristas, Cassian: The Compositional Unity of De institutis V

* If anyone can help us fill gaps or provide information on meetings prior to 1990, please let us know. -ed