November 18-21, San Antonio, Texas
For further information, including the abstracts for all papers, please see the SBL Online Program Book on the Annual Meeting site. Enter “Greco-Roman Religions” in the Keyword box.
| S18-120 Greco-Roman Religions 11/18/2023 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Room: Travis C (3rd Floor) – Grand Hyatt Theme: Reconsidering Belief in Greek and Roman Religion This panel will consist of two parts: (1) a review panel dedicated to Jacob L. Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (Princeton University Press 2022) and (2) papers on the role of belief in Greek and Roman religion. Laura Carnevale, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Presiding (5 min) Book Review Panel Jennifer Larson, Kent State University Main Campus, Panelist (20 min) Charles King, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Panelist (20 min) Jacob Mackey, Occidental College, Respondent (20 min) Roundtable Discussion (15 min) Break (5 min) Papers on Belief in Greek and Roman Religion Fabio Caruso, Loyola University of Chicago Sitting around the Mensa: Some Reflections on Refrigerium between Paganism and Early Christianity (20 min) Vaia Touna, The University of Alabama The Eternal Return of “Belief” in the Greco-Roman “Religion(s)” or Same as It Ever Was (20 min) Roundtable Discussion (15 min) |
| S19-315a Greco-Roman Religions 11/19/2023 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Room: Conference Room 14 – Marriott Rivercenter Theme: Jae Han’s Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Maria Doerfler, Yale University, Presiding (3 min) Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University, Presiding (15 min) Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa, Panelist (15 min) Martti Nissinen, University of Helsinki, Panelist (15 min) Sara Ronis, Saint Mary’s University (San Antonio), Panelist (15 min) Jae Han, Brown University, Respondent (15 min) |
| S20-118 Greco-Roman Religions Joint session with Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions 11/20/2023 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Room: Bonham A (3rd Floor) – Grand Hyatt Theme: Secrecy and Sociogenesis: Mysteries, Restricted Rituals, and the Growth of Religious Communities Jeffrey Brodd, California State University – Sacramento, Presiding (5 min) Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa Taking Leave of Secrecy (20 min) Paul Robertson, University of New Hampshire Magic Apples, Secret Rituals, and Constructing Social Groupness (20 min) Christopher S. Atkins, Yale University Unearthing the Ritual Underground in Classical Greek Poetry and Prose: The Traffic in and Theologia of Binding Spells and Curse Tablets (20 min) Bartlomiej Bednarek, University of Warsaw The Secrecy of Maenadic Rites Reconsidered (20 min) Break (5 min) Christian Bull, University of Bergen Secret Books of the Egyptian Hermes: Hidden in Temples, for Priests and Kings (20 min) Jonathan Ben-Dov, Tel Aviv University The Qumran Corpus of Scrolls in Cryptic Script and Secrecy in the Yahad Community (20 min) Dan Mills, Independent Scholar The Persistence of Physiognomy in the Middle Ages: The Zohar’s Version of the Secretum Secretorum (20 min) |
| S20-316 Greco-Roman Religions Joint session with AAR Contemporary Pagan Studies 11/20/2023 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Room: 305 Ballroom Level – San Antonio Convention Center Theme: Interactions between Human and Divine in the Ancient and Modern World Giovanna Parmigiani, Harvard Divinity School, Presiding Ranjani Atur, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Approaching Statues: Modern Interpretations of Epiphany and Greek Material Religion (25 min) Jeffrey Brodd, California State University – Sacramento Emperor Julian’s Revelatory Hellene Tradition (25 min) Ethan Schwartz, Villanova University The End of Oracles: Delphi, Divine Encounter, and the Purpose of Philosophy in Plato’s Apology (25 min) Christopher Chase, Iowa State University Epiphanies of Isis: Apuleius and Plutarch in Contemporary Pagan and Magical Contexts (25 min) Roundtable Discussion (15 min) |
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