Please find below updated information about the special Toronto session of the PSCO this Friday, to which all are welcome to attend. Apologies, as always, for the inevitable host of cross-postings...
All the best, Annette ____________________________ ***Announcement of a Special, pre-SBL/AAR Toronto Meeting of the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins (PSCO) on "Parabiblical Literature"*** 22 November 2002, 8-10 pm, Quebec Room of the Royal York Hotel. Moderated by Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania) and Annette Y. Reed (Princeton University) Panelists: *Gary Anderson (Harvard University) *James R. Davila (St.Andrews University, Scotland) *Devorah Dimant (Haifa University, Israel) *Ingrid Hjelm (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) *Andrew Jacobs (University of California, Riverside) *John Reeves (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) The PSCO is in its 40th year (see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/). Since its topic for the current year -- "Parabiblical Literature" -- is of wide interest for students and scholars of both Jewish and Christian scriptures and related literature, its co-chairs have decided to take advantage of the presence of a large and international group of specialists at the Toronto meetings and hold a special session there. The session hopes to bring together experts (both on our panel and in our audience) whose knowledge and insights will contribute to productive discussion of the topic of apparently authoritative written materials that we look back on as "extrabiblical" yet as, at the same time, similar in various ways to what became "biblical" for (especially but not only) Judaism and Christianity. Part of the discussion will involve the question of appropriate terminology (e.g. "pseudepigrapha," "rewritten Bible," "biblical paraphrase," etc.). For summaries of our discussions so far, both at the first meeting of this year's PSCO and in Bob's graduate seminar on the same theme, see: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/courses/735/Parabiblical/intro.htm. A separate email will follow with more details about the panelists in the upcoming Toronto session and the topics that they will be discussing. Updated information, both about the Toronto session and about the rest of the PSCO schedule for this year, can be found at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/topic.shtml Please feel free to distribute this notice to anyone who might be interested in attending the Toronto PSCO session, or in the project more broadly. We hope to see you in Toronto! Annette Yoshiko Reed (Princeton University), co-chair Robert A. Kraft (University of Pennsylvania), co-chair Todd C. Krulak (University of Pennsylvania), special recording secretary Tennyson J. Wellman (University of Pennsylvania), recording secretary Jay C. Treat (University of Pennsylvania), technical coordinator For private reply, e-mail to "Annette Yoshiko Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from Orion, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: "unsubscribe Orion." Archives are on the Orion Web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. (PLEASE REMOVE THIS TRAILOR BEFORE REPLYING TO THE MESSAGE)
