Religious Polemics and Ritual Dynamics in Hellenistic Times and Late Antiquity: four PhD projects

ACRH Seminar, Tuesday 8 January, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 hours, ROOM HG-14A40 Cindy Meijer (Amsterdam): ‘Prophecy and Power: Predictive Texts and Politics in the Hellenistic Near East’ - Maya Goldberg (Amsterdam), ‘The Place of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the Anonymous Commentary Preserved in MS (olim) Diyarbakir 22’ - Cor Hoogerwerf (Amsterdam), ‘Fourth-century polemics in a ninth-century source: Provenance and context of Isho'dad of Merv's refutation of allegorical interpretation of the Bible’ - Mark Beumer (Tilburg), ‘Temple Sleep: A Close Encounter of Ritual Dynamics? A Short Historiographic Exploration’