Chairs
Michael Labahn (am.labahn@t-online.de)
Outi Lehtipuu (outi.lehtipuu@helsinki.fi)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Imperial Power Politics and Early Christian Religious Life
Details will follow, soon.
Please send suggested proposals by January 31st, 2011 to Outi Lehtipuu (outi.lehtipuu@helsinki.fi) or to Michael Labahn (am.labahn@t-online.de).
Previous proceedings and publications of the Seminar
1998 Cracow: Mark and Q.
1999 Helsinki/Lahti: Recent Investigations in the Historical Jesus.
The papers of both meetings published in: M. Labahn and A. Schmidt (eds.), Jesus, Mark and Q. The Teaching of Jesus and its Earliest Records, JSNTS 214, Sheffield 2001.
2000 Utrecht: New Testament and Roman Empire.
The papers are published in: M. Labahn and J. Zangenberg (eds.), Zwischen den Reichen: Neues Testament und Römische Herrschaft, TANZ 36, Tübingen and Basel, 2002
2001 Rome: Christians as a Religious Minority in a Multicultural City
The papers are published in: J. Zangenberg and M. Labahn (eds.), Christians as a Religious Minority in a Multicultural City: Modes of Interaction and Identity Formation in Early Imperial Rome, ESCO = JSNT.Sup 268; London – New York: T&T Clarke, Continuum, 2004
2002 Berlin: The Purpose of Narrating Miracle Stories in NT and Its Environment I
2003 Copenhagen: The Purpose of Narrating Miracle Stories in NT and Its Environment II.
The papers are published in: M. Labahn and B. J. Lietaert Peerbolte (eds.), Wonders Never Cease: The Purpose of Narrating Miracle Stories in the New Testament and Its Religious Environment, JSNTS = ESCO, London and New York, 2005.
2004 Groningen: Magic and the New Testament.
The papers are published in: M. Labahn and B. J. Lietaert Peerbolte (eds.), A Kind of Magic: Understanding Magic in the New Testament and its Religious Environment, ECSO = LNTS 306, London: Continuum, 2007.
2006 Budapest: Ancient Conceptions of Anthropology.
The papers are in print: M. Labahn and O. Lehtipuu (eds.), Anthropology in Context. Studies on Ideas of Anthropology within the New Testament and its Ancient Context, CBET 54, Leuven: Peeters, 2010
2007 Vienna: Revelation.
The papers will be published soon (2010/11)
2008 Lisboa: The Use of the Bible for Group Demarcation in the Second Temple Period and Late Antiquity I
2009 Lincoln: The Use of the Bible for Group Demarcation in the Second Temple Period and Late Antiquity II
2010 Tartu: Imperial Power Politics and Early Christianity
Future proceedings of the Seminar:
The Early Christianity group will continue with a seminar on "Imperial Power Politics and Early Christian Religious Life" (exact title and call for paper will be given soon) in Thessaloniki 2011.