The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies, the Religious Studies Program, the Department of Classics, the Department of History, the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and the Dean for the Humanities announces the



Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies

INTEGRATING JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY INTO THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD



Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, 2015

Hemmerdinger Hall

Silver Center for Arts and Science

32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015

5:00 p.m. WELCOME

Matthew S. Santirocco, NYU



5:15 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The New Testament as a Source for the History of the Jews and Judaism

Lawrence H. Schiffman, NYU



6:15 p.m. PUBLIC RECEPTION

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015

SESSION 1 [Session Chair, Jeffrey Rubenstein, NYU]

9:15 a.m. Samson in Stone: New Discoveries in the Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee

Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina

9:55 a.m. Jesus the Jurist: Written Law and Its Interpretation in the Christian Gospels

Daniel Fleming, NYU

10:35 a.m. The Dead Sea Scrolls “Instruction” Text and Its Hellenistic Context

Hindy Najman, Yale University

11:15 a.m. The Treaty of Apamea, the Decline of the Seleucid Empire, and Their Consequence

for Jewish Martyrology

R. Steven Notley, Nyack College

12:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 2 [Session Chair, Michael Peachin, NYU]



1:00 p.m. Jews and the Imposition of Nicene Orthodoxy in the Late Antique Mediterranean Diaspora

Ross Kraemer, Brown University

1:40 p.m. Selling Souls: Early Christians (and Their Neighbors) as Religious Entrepreneurs

Nicola Denzey Lewis, Brown University

2:20 p.m. Practices of Seeing God(s) in Late Antiquity

Laura Nasrallah, Harvard University

3:00 p.m. The Rise of Authoritative Scripture and Its Interpretation in Ancient Judaism

Alex Jassen, NYU

This conference is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center for Ancient Studies at ancient.studies@nyu.edu, or at 212.992.7978