Program
Tuesday, June 17. Venue: Theologisk eksamenssal
- Welcome 13:00–13:30
- Hugo Lundhaug Short introduction and practical information.
- Session One 13:30–15:00
- Samuel Cook “The Monastery of Saint Macarius and its Library: A Study in the Monastic use of Coptic Apocrypha.”
- Joanna Hypszer “Apocrypha Copied in Touton.”
- Break 15:00–15:15
- Session Two 15:15–16:45
- Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin “Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: Coptic Apocrypha and Related Practices.”
- Dylan M. Burns “The Jews in the Mystery of the Greek Letters.”
- Break 16:45–17:00
- Session Three 17:00–18:30
- Tony Burke “Apocryphal Texts and Traditions of Longinus the Centurion.”
- Mari Mamyan “Between Stability and Change: The Armenian Acts of Thomas in Transmission.”
- Dinner 20:00
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Wednesday, June 18. Venue: Professorboligen
- Session One 09:00–10:30
- Alin Suciu “The Unfamiliar Holy Land: Imaginary Depictions of Jerusalem and Palestine in Coptic Literature.”
- Junia Kattrup “Christians and the Books of the Greeks: The Issue of Apocrypha and Pagan Material in the Writings of Ps.-Agathonicus of Tarsus.”
- Break 10:30–10:45
- Session Two 10:45–12:15
- Hugo Lundhaug “The Chronological and Geographical Distribution of Coptic Apocrypha and Their Contents.”
- Florian Graz “Analyzing Narrative Structures in Coptic Apocrypha: A Study of Frame Narratives.”
- Lunch 12:15-13:15
- Session Three 17:00–18:30
- Christian H. Bull “Not Born Bad: The Demiurge as a Luciferian Figure in the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (NHC III, 2; IV, 2).”
- Håkon Fiane Teigen “A Gem of Many Hues: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Manichaean Metaphors.”Break 14:45–15:00
- Session Four 15:00–16:30
- Lasse Løvlund Toft “Michaelic Homilies in Cross-Linguistic Manuscript Transmission: A Study of a Nilotic Literary Continuum.”
- Stephanie Hallinger “Apocrypha in the Legenda aurea: The Archangel Michael and the Weighing of Souls.”
- Break 16:30–16:45
- Session Five 16:45–18:15
- René Falkenberg “Mary as the Paraclete in the Gospel of Thomas.”
- Tuomas Rasimus “Jesus the Animal: Early Christian Metaphors of Sacrifice and Salvation.”
- Dinner 20:00
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Thursday, June 19. Venue: Professorboligen
- Session One: 09:00–10:30
- Liv Ingeborg Lied “Wilding the Pseudepigrapha: Presenting a New Research Project.”
- Slavomír Čéplö “New Philology and 21st-Century Editors: Arabic Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Use Case.”
- Break 10:30–10:45
- Session Two 10:45–12:15
- Gesa Schenke “The Earliest Witnesses of the Testament of Abraham and the Acts of Andrew and Philemon in Codex P.Köln inv. 3221.”
- Ivan Miroshnikov “Reception of Didache 9:4 in the (Second) Acts of Andrew (AW291)?”