This looks very interesting.

Apocalyptic Thinking
14 & 15 February 2021
Centre for the Study of the Bible
Oriel College
University of Oxford

Conference Organisers:
Hindy Najman – Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
Jenn Strawbridge – Associate Professor in New Testament Studies
Elizabeth Stell – Postgraduate student Organiser

For inquiries, please contact Stefania Beitia, PA to Professor Najman
(stefania.beitia@oriel.ox.ac.uk)

Register Online at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apocalyptic-thinking-tickets-129867155157


Sunday, 14 February, 2021
18:00 – 19:00 Keynote Adress
 Chair: Hindy Najman, Oriel College, University of Oxford

 Rina Talgam, Hebrew University
 The Downfall of World Empires in Jewish Art of Late Antiquity

Monday, 15 February, 2021

8:30 – 13:15 Morning Session
Chair: Jenn Strawbridge, Mansfield College, University of Oxford

8:30 – 9:15 Loren Stuckenbruck, LMU Munich
Rethinking Temporality Structures in Apocalyptic: Focusing on the Recent Past

9:15 – 10:00 Elizabeth Stell, Oriel College, University of Oxford
“Then, Afraid, I Awoke from Dream”: Fear and Finding Meaning in the Exagoge and
 Beyond

10:00 – 10:45 Bruno Currie, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Hesiod’s Apocalypse (Works and Days, lines 174-201)

10:45 – 11:00 Short Break

11:00 – 11:45 Philip Alexander, University of Manchester
The “World to Come” as a Postmortem Disembodied State v. the “World to
Come” as a Post-Resurrection Embodied state at the End of History: A
Conundrum of Apocalyptic Thinking

11:45 – 12:30 Alessandro Schiesaro, University of Manchester
Eschatological Tensions in 1st century in Rome

12:30 – 13:15 Mark Edwards, Christ Church College, University of Oxford
 Where is the New Jerusalem?

13:15 – 13:45 Long Break


13:45- 16:00 Afternoon Session

Chair: Hindy Najman, Oriel College, University of Oxford


13:45 – 14:30 Olivia Stewart Lester, Loyola University

“For there are all sorts of seasons…”: Periodization, Eschatology, and
Apocalyptic Uncertainty in the Sibylline Oracles


14:30 – 15:15 Judith Newman, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

Overcoming Dualisms in the Study of Apocalyptic


15:15 – 16:00 Arjen Bakker, University of Groningen

Rethinking Wisdom and Apocalyptic


16:00 – 16:30 Reflections and Responses

Chair: Loren Stuckenbruck, LMU Munich

John Collins, Yale University
Jenn Strawbridge, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Hindy Najman, Oriel College, University of Oxford