Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity

Thursday, May 16th

Hussite Theological Faculty (Pacovská 350/4, 140 21 Prague 4)

Moderators: Thomas R. Hatina / Sandra Huebenthal

• 10:00 Opening of the Conference

• 10:00 – 10:05 Welcome from the Hussite Theological Faculty

• 10:05 – 10:15 Introduction to the Conference (Thomas R. Hatina)

I. Afterlife from Ancient Egypt and Israel to Early Judaism

• 10:15 – 10:45 Jiří Janák – Weighing of the Heart: Ancient Egyptian Judgement of the Dead and its Later Developments

• 10:45 – 11:15 Craig Broyles – The Nightmare of Sheol and the Counter-Memories of Yahwism

• 11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break

• 11:30 – 12:00 Dávid Cielontko – Eleazar Remembered: The Death and Afterlife of the Maccabean Martyr

• 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch

II. Afterlife in Early Christianity – A

• 14:00 – 14:30 Sandra Huebenthal – Additional Notes to an Unfinished Symphony. Ressurection and Afterlife according to Mark

• 14:30 – 15:00 Thomas R. Hatina – When the Saints Go Marching in: Remembering Vengeance and Vindication in Matthew 27:52–53

• 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

• 15:15 – 15:45 Torsten Jantsch – A memory of Hades: The description of the underworld in Luke 16:19–31 and accounts of journeys into Hades in early Jewish and Greco-Roman literature

• 15:45 – 16:15 Kyle Parsons – From Romans to Colossians: Making Sense of Competing Conceptions of Resurrection

• 16:15 – 16:45 František Ábel – The Anamnestic Rhetoric of the Eucharistic Tradition Reflected in 1 Cor 11:24–25: Its Meaning and Role in Perspective of Afterlife Conception

Friday, May 17th

House of the Professed (Malostranské náměstí 2/25, 118 00 Prague 1)

Moderators: Sandra Huebenthal / Thomas R. Hatina

• 9:55 – 10:00 Welcome to conference participants

II. Afterlife in Early Christianity – B

• 10:00 – 10:30 Tobias Nicklas – The Apocalypse of Peter and its Otherworldly Landscape of Memories

• 10:30 – 11:00 Christian Handschuh – Extended Memory? Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis as „Exempla fidei“

• 11:00 – 11:30 Jiří Lukeš – The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla – Sexual Asceticism as a Condition of Eternal Life

• 11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

III. Hermeneutics and Memory

• 11:45 – 12:15 Petr Pokorný – Social Memory Theory and Formgeschichte

• 12:15 – 12:45 Zeba Crook – Form Criticism vs. Memory Theory on Resurrection Belief

• 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 – 14:30 Jan Payne – Program for Hermeneutics – To Understand the Past Is to Understand How the Passed Ones Approached Their Future

• 14:30 – 15:00 Lukáš Nikl – The Potential and Limits of Social Memory Approaches in Biblical Studies

• 15:00 Closing Discussion