The Office of the Dean and the Department of Theology of Loyola University, in collaboration with The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, and ItalCultura, present the conference “The Bible in History: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue between Italian and American Scholars On the Reception History of the Bible and Early Christian History“.
The conference will take place at Loyola University over the course of two days, on April 11-12.
Free and open to the public
Program
Session I (Friday, April 11 at Hampton Inn, Conference Room – 1209 W Albion Avenue)
Between History and Eschata
Chairperson: Christina Lombardi-Diop
9:00am: Institutional Greetings
9:30: Laura Carnevale (Bari): The Sacrifice of Isaac in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
10:00: Luca Arcari (Naples): Sacrificial Imagery and Sacrificial Language in the Apocalypse of John.
10:30: Q&A
10:45: Break
11:00: Louis Painchaud (Laval): Human Sacrifice in the Scriptures and in The Gospel of Judas (online).
11:30: Edmondo Lupieri (Loyola): The Baptism of John Between History and Gnosis.
12:00: Q&A
Session II (Friday, April 11 at Hampton Inn, Conference Room – 1209 W Albion Avenue)
Intertextuality of the Scriptures
Chairperson: Laura Carnevale
2:45pm: Davide Dainese (Bologna): Resilient Septuagint: AI for Humanities, between Bible and Patristic Literature.
3:15: Genevive Dibley (Rockford): Henochic Echoes in Paul: The Inclusion of the Gentiles.
3:45: Q&A
4:00: Break
4:15: Olivia Stewart Lester (Loyola): Scriptural Echoes in the Sibylline Oracles.
4:45: Andrea Nicolotti (Torino): Construction of Relics and Biblical Exegesis.
5:15: Q&A
Session III (Saturday, April 12 at McCormick Lounge – 1000 W Sheridan Road)
Paul after Paul
Chairperson: Genevive Dibley
9:00am: Fabio Caruso (Loyola): Paul the Roman: His Relationship with Roman Authorities in Acts.
9:30: Christopher Skinner (Loyola): Paul in/and the Gospel of Thomas.
10:00: Q&A
10:15: Break
10:30: Matthew Broeren (CTU): Paul between Marcion and Valentinus.
11:00: Julian Sieber (Loyola): Paul between the Canonical Acts and the Acts of Paul and Thecla.
11:30: Q&A