What happened in the Seventh Century? Socio-Religious Transformations and Apocalyptic Discourses
What happened in the Seventh Century?
Socio-Religious Transformations and Apocalyptic Discourses
International Workshop, Tel Aviv University 12–14 June, 2023
June 12 (Monday)
Drachlis Hall (Gilman 496)
09:00–09:30 Welcome & coffee
09:30–10:20 Gianfilippo Terribili (Sapienza University of Rome)
The Tripartite Exploit. A Case Study on Seventh-Century Narrative Patterns in Historiographical Traditions
10:20–11:10 Domenico Agostini (Tel Aviv University)
Is the Zoroastrian Historical Apocalypse a Seventh-Century Literary Genre?
11:10–11:40 Coffee Break
11:40–12:30 Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sogdiana in the Seventh Century: On the Eve of the Apocalypse
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:50 Jeffrey Kotyk (University of Bologna)
An Apocalypse in China? Iranian Religions in Tang China (618–907): Continuity and Adaptation
14:50-15:40 Hillel Newman (University of Haifa)
What Difference did the Emergence of Islam make
to Jewish Apocalypses of the Seventh Century?
June 13 (Tuesday)
The Cymbalista Synagogue Seminar Room from 14:30: Gilman Hall 133
9:00–09:50 Lutz Greisiger (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Hegemony and its Providential Limitations:
A Transcultural Inter-Discursive Theme Shaped in the Seventh Century
09:50–10:40 Michal Bar-Asher Siegal (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
The Bat and the Rooster: On Jewish-Christian Literary Interactions
in the Babylonian Talmud
10:40–11:10 Coffee Break
11:10–12:00 Nadine Viermann (Durham University)
Monoenergism between Constantinople and Syria
Some Remarks Based on George of Pisidia’s Contra Severum
12:00–12:50 Yuri Stoyanov (SOAS – University of London)
Apocalypticizing Trends in Seventh-Century Byzantine and East Christian Ideologies of Warfare: Provenance and Nachleben
13:00–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–15:20 Benjamin Birely (Tel Aviv University)
Rethinking Armilos: Intra-Jewish Avenues of Interpretation in Late Antiquity
15:20–16:10 Zara Pogossian (University of Florence) [On zoom]
Emperor Heraclius, the Cult of the True Cross and Apocalyptic Discourses in Seventh-Century Armenia
June 14 (Wednesday)
The Cymbalista Synagogue Seminar Room from 14:30: Gilman Hall 133
9:30–10:20 Yonatan Moss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Resolving the Paradox of Syriac Literary Activity in the Seventh Century
10:20–11:10 András Kraft (University of Vienna)
The Eschatology of (Ps-)Anastasios of Sinai
11:10–11:40 Coffee Break
11:40–12:30 Katia Cytryn-Silverman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A hundred Years of Tolerance? Tiberias after the Arab Conquest
12:30–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–15:20 Michael Josef Marx (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Chronology of early Qurʾāns according to Carbon Dating
and Implications for the Understanding of the Seventh Century CE
15:20–16:10 Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Anxieties of the Victorious: The Struggle of Conservative Muslims
Against Speculative Reasoning in Theological Inquiries
16:10–16:30 Concluding Remarks
For any questions, please contact agostini@tauex.tau.ac.il