Philo studies at the SBL Annual Meeting in November

The Program Book for the SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio is now available on the SBL site.  Philo of Alexandria will be explicitly dealt with in these sessions:

S21-22
Meals in the Greco-Roman World
11/21/20049:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon M - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Deciphering an Ancient Meal: The Therapeutae as a Test Case
Hal Taussig, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Ellen B. Aitken, Harvard Divinity School
Singing at Meals among the Therapeutae (10 min)
Willi Braun, University of Alberta
Philo, Feasts, and Philosophy: The Therapeutae for Example (10 min)
Matthias Klinghardt, Technische Universität Dresden
The Therapeutaes’ Dance (10 min)
Andrew McGowan, University of Melbourne
The Food of the Therapeutae: A Thick Description (10 min)
Dennis Smith, Phillips Theological Seminary
Is There a Group Behind This Text: The Case of the Therapeutae (10 min)
Hal Taussig, Union Theological Seminary
Ritual Perfection and/or Literary Idealization in Philo’s Treatment of the Therapeutae (10 min)
Discussion (80 min)

S21-61
Hellenistic Moral Philosophy and Early Christianity
11/21/20041:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Salon D - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Charis: Favor, Reciprocity, and Obligation in Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament
Pamela Gordon, University of Kansas, Presiding
David Konstan, Brown University
The Two Faces of Charis: Favor vs. Gratitude (30 min)
Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Copenhagen University
Charis and Beneficium in Seneca, Philo, and Paul (30 min)
Break (5 min)
Brent Nongbri, Yale University
Super Argentum et Aurum Gratia Bona: The Charizomai Word Group in the Documentary Papyri (30 min)
J. Paul Sampley, Boston University, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Papers will be available to group members on the HMPEC website. For inquiries please contact the Program Unit Chair.

S22-22
Philo of Alexandria
11/22/2004  9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Worlds of Logos Theology I
Hindy Najman, Harvard University, Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University
Philo and John: Two Riffs on One Logos? (40 min)
Robin Darling Young, University of Notre Dame
Philo as Prophet for Clement of Alexandria (40 min)
Daniel Boyarin, University of California
Origen's Philo-logia (40 min)
Break (5 min)
Business Meeting (25 min)

S22-71
Philo of Alexandria
11/22/2004 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Worlds of Logos Theology II
David Winston, Berkeley, CA, Presiding
Assan Yadin, Rutgers University
Philo: Between the Logos Didaskalos and the Nomos Didaskalos (30 min)
Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Wiesbaden, Germany
Creation and the Logos in Philo and John: Eternity Meets History (30 min)
Gregory E. Sterling, University of Notre Dame
"The Second God": The Exegetical Traditions of Genesis 1:1–5 in Philo and John (30 min)Thomas H. Tobin, Loyola University of Chicago
The World of Thought in the Philippians Hymn (Philippians 2:5–11) (30 min)
Break (5 min)
Business Meeting (25 min) Board of Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series

 
Other sessions that may be of interest to Philonists are these:

S21-25
Religion in Roman Egypt
11/21/2004  9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #216A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Death and the Afterlife
David Brakke, Indiana University, Presiding
Kirsti Copeland, Stanford University
Gender and the Afterlife in Roman Egypt (30 min)
Nicola Denzey, Harvard Divinity School
Death on the Nile: "Gnosticism," Early Egyptian Christianity, and Otherworldly Journeys (30 min)
Lillian Larsen, Columbia University
The "Now" and the "Not Yet": Hybrid Images of the Afterlife in Early Egyptian Monasticism (30 min)
Panel Review of Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead by Marjorie Venit (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002)
Allen Kerkeslager, St. Joseph's University, Panelist (30 min)
Birger Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Panelist (30 min)

S21-117
Hellenistic Judaism
11/21/2004  4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #001B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: New Finds and Findings: Recent Discoveries, Latest Publications, and Neglected Documentary Evidence for Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period
T. Rajak, University of Reading, Presiding
Sylvie Honigman, Tel Aviv University
Jewish Law and Septuagint Nomenclature in a Newly-Documented Jewish Politeuma from Middle Egypt (25 min)
Margaret Williams, University of Edinburgh
Jewish Epigraphy Since the Publication of the Revised Schuerer, Vol. III (25 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Break (5 min)
Tal Ilan, Freie Univeritaet, Berlin
Rethinking Jewish Cemeteries in Light of the New Finds from Hierapolis (20 min)
Philip A. Harland, Concordia University
Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and “Pagan” Guilds in Hierapolis (20 min)
E. Leigh Gibson, Princeton, NJ
Integrating Eastern Inscriptions into Discussions of Jewish Epigraphy (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)