GRR will hold four sessions at SBL 2022. A business meeting will be held online after the meeting. For more information, please contact the GRR section chairs: Barbette Spaeth and Maria Doerfler.
S19-314
Greco-Roman Religions
11/19/2022
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 706 (Street Level) – Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Materiality and Religion in the Greco-Roman World
Barbette Spaeth, William & Mary, Presiding
Kristi Lee, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Corinth’s Protector: Aphrodite as Goddess of the Military (25 min)
Thomas R. Blanton IV, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
Apotropaic Amulets from Pompeii: A Study in “Material Religion” (25 min)
Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa
Of Space, Materiality, and Agency: The Tango of Religious Space, Discourse, and Practice in Two Case Studies: The Mythraeum and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (25 min)
Laura Carnevale, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
The Altar of the Sacrifice: Reconstruction and Legitimation of the Binding of Isaac’s Story from Judaism to Christianity and Beyond (25 min)
Sissel Undheim, University of Bergen, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)
S20-320
Greco-Roman Religions
11/20/2022
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 106 (Street Level) – Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Encountering Monsters: Religious Interactions with the Monstrous in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Jeffrey Brodd, California State University – Sacramento, Presiding
Nathan Fredrickson, University of California-Santa Barbara
Erysichthon and the Suppression of Human Monstrosity Relative to Ecological Devastation in Greco-Roman Myth (25 min)
Jonah Bissell, First Baptist Church of Freeport, Maine
The “Onocentaurus” in Greek Isaiah and the Nile Mosaic of Praeneste (25 min)
Gregory E. Lamb, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Becoming ‘Monsters’? Paul’s Use of Dehumanizing Terms as Boundary Markers in Philippians (25 min)
Discussion (30 min)
S21-144
Joint Session With: Greco-Roman Religions, Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
11/21/2022
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Centennial F (Third Level) – Hyatt Regency (HR)
Theme: Remodeling the Motel of the Mysteries
Barbette Spaeth, William & Mary, Presiding (5 min)
Chris Atkins, Yale University
Sacred Rites, Cult Poetry, and Curse Tablets at Selinous (20 min)
Tag(s): Classical Studies (Interpretive Approaches), Archaeology of Religion (Archaeology & Iconography)
Discussion (5 min)
M. David Litwa, Australian Catholic University
The Naassene Preacher and the Mysteries: A Historical Analysis (20 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Greece/Greek (Greco-Roman Literature), Church History and Ecclesiology (Other)
Discussion (5 min)
Ryan Abaomowitz, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Art and Sensory Experience in the Ancient World: Reanimating the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the Island of Samothrace (20 min)
Tag(s): Archaeology of Religion (Archaeology & Iconography), Pedagogical Theory (Learning & Teaching), Art History (Archaeology & Iconography)
Discussion (5 min)
Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa
Having a Blast in the Motel of the Mysteries: A Redescriptive Archaeology (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Jennifer Larson, Kent State University Main Campus, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
S21-312
Greco-Roman Religions
11/21/2022
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Room: Centennial H (Third Level) – Hyatt Regency (HR)
Theme: Embodiment and Identity in Greco-Roman Religions
Laura Carnevale, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, Presiding
Zsuzsa Varhelyi, Boston University
Epiphany and the Embodied Experience of Healing Waters: Imagining Roman Nymphs (25 min)
Courtney Friesen, University of Arizona
From Actress to Actor: Gendered Impurity in the Conversion of Ancient Mimes (25 min)
John Ladouceur, Princeton University
Between Philosopher’s Cloak and Ascetic Habit: Religious Identity and the Transformation of the Tribōn in Late Antiquity (25 min)
Discussion (45 min)
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