Workshop on SUFFERING GODS
Tuesday, DECEMBER 7-9, 2004
AT THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Date & Time: 07/12/2004
Tuesday, 7 December, 2004
18.00-19.00 Opening Session
Michael Fishbane (Chicago), ´´Exegetical Theology and Divine Suffering in Judaism´´
Reception
Wednesday, 8 December, 2004
9.00-10.00 Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv), ´´Strategies of Abjection and Rejection: Imprisonment, Torture, and Execution of Divine Beings in the Assyrian Empire´´
10.00 - 11.00 Jan Assmann (Heidelberg), ´´The Suffering of Osiris: Myth and Ritual´´
Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Shaul Shaked (Jerusalem), ´´Gayomard: Prototype of a Zoroastrian Suffering Divinity?´´
Lunch break
14.30 -15.30 Israel Knohl (Jerusalem), ´´The ´´Suffering Servant´´ from Isaiah to the Dead Sea Scrolls´´
15.30 -16.30 Serge Ruzer (Jerusalem), ´´Jesus´´s Martyrdom and God´´s Suffering: Luke-Acts as a Low Point in Myth Making?´´
Coffee break
17.00 - 18.00 Guy Stroumsa (Jerusalem), ´´Real Presence or Real Suffering? Early Christian Dilemmas´´
18.00-19.00 Andrew Plaks (Princeton), “Why Don’t the Chinese Gods Suffer?´´
Thursday, 9 December, 2004
9.00 -10.00 Margalit Finkelberg (Tel Aviv), ´´Herakles: Becoming God through Suffering´´
10.00 -11.00 Moshe Idel (Jerusalem), ´´The Suffering of the Shekhinah in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah´´
Coffee break
11.30 -12.30 Yuri Stoyanov (London), ´´The ´´Suffering Jesus´´ in Medieval Christian Dualism: Controversies and Unresolved Problems´´
Lunch break
14.30 - 15.30
Lawrence Besserman (Jerusalem), ´´Imitatio Christi in the Later Middle Ages: Alternative Paradigms´´
15.30 -16.30 Shira Wolosky (Jerusalem), ´´Edward Taylor: American Conversions of the Suffering God´´
Coffee break
17.00 - 18.00 Idit Shaked (Jerusalem), ´´The Thorny Crown of Revolution: Unexpected (?) Images of the Suffering God´´
18.00 - 18.30
Concluding Discussion
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