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Loomis · 10-19-2008, 11:16 PM

Damn. Looks like fun. Will they ever come to LA?

Toto · 10-19-2008, 11:19 PM

The original announcement said that they would meet on the east coast and on the west coast. I expect them in LA next June.

Loomis · 10-19-2008, 11:33 PM

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The original announcement said that they would meet on the east coast and on the west coast. I expect them in LA next June.

Those guys need support but I can’t go. Maybe I’ll buy a ticket and send an inflatable party doll or something.

youngalexander · 10-20-2008, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

The original announcement said that they would meet on the east coast and on the west coast. I expect them in LA next June.

Hey, NY May 2010 would suit me fine. Mind you, might have to amend my extensively detailed schedule ...
But what the heck.

Toto · 10-27-2008, 05:43 PM

Schedule of NY sessions - now online.

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Sources of the Jesus Tradition: An Inquiry
Friday, December 5th

8:00pm
Opening Panel: Jesus 'Projects' and the Historical Jesus: Receding Conclusions?

Saturday, December 6
Session 1: Evidence and Methods

9:00-11:30am
Assessing the Evidence: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
Ronald A. Lindsay, president and senior fellow, Center for Inquiry/Transnational; author of Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas.

Prolegomenon to a Science of Christian Origins
Frank Zindler, public scholar in Biblical Studies; author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu and the Quest of the Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources; member of the Jesus Seminar, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Schools of Oriental Research

Bayes Theorem for Beginners: Formal Logic and Its Relevance to Historical Method
Richard Carrier, Columbia University; author of "The Guarded Tomb of Jesus and Daniel in the Lion’s Den: An Argument for the Plausibility of Theft", Journal of Higher Criticism (Fall 2001) and On the Historicity of Jesus (in progress)

Session 2: Paul, Mythologies, and the 'Evidence' of Earliest Christianity
11:40am — 1:00pm
Paul As a Witness to the Historical Jesus
Gerd Lüdemann, Jesus Project co-chair; professor of New Testament, Georg-August-University, Göttingen; author of The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry and Primitive Christianity: A Survey of Recent Studies and Some New Proposals

In Good Faith: What Have They Done with Paul?
Philippa Carter, professor of religious studies, MacMaster University, Canada; author of The Servant Ethic in the New Testament; CSER fellow

Popular Mythology in the Early Empire and the Multiplicity of Jesus Traditions
Justin Meggitt, senior lecturer in the Study of Religion and the Origins of Christianity, Institute of Continuing Education; fellow and director of Studies in Theology and Religious Studies, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge; member of the Reykjavik Academy; CSER fellow.

Session 3: The Sayings of Jesus

2:10pm — 4:00pm
Every Plant Which My Heavenly Father Has Not Planted Shall Be Uprooted: An Inquiry into the Sources of Certain Sayings of Jesus
Robert Eisenman, emeritus professor, California State University Long Beach; visiting senior member of Linacre College, Oxford University; former senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies; NEH fellow at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem; author of James the Brother of Jesus, The New Testament Code, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians.

An Alternative View of Q
Dennis R. MacDonald, professor at Claremont School of Theology and CGU School of Religion; director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at Claremont; author of Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?

Aramaic Jesus Traditions: Evidence and Reconstruction
Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College; director of the Institute for Advanced Theology; author of Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography and the first critical commentary on the Targum of Isaiah, The Isaiah Targum: Introduction, Translation, Apparatus, and Notes.

The Rapid Attribution of Fictive Sayings and Stories to a Mythic Jesus
Robert M. Price, Jesus Project co-chair; author of The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man; Center for Inquiry senior research fellow

Session 4: The Formation of Jesus Traditions

4:15pm — 6:00pm
Heretics and the Role of the Canon in Delimiting the Historical Jesus
R. Joseph Hoffmann, CSER chair; distinguished scholar in residence, Goddard College; author of Marcion on the Restitution of Christianity and other works on the social contexts of early Christianity

The Authorized Version
David Trobisch, professor emeritus of New Testament at Bangor Theological Seminary; author of The First Edition of the New Testament, Paul’s Letter Collection

Jesus and Ned Lud[d]: What’s in a Name?
A.J. Droge, professor of literature at University of California-San Diego; author (with James Tabor) of A Noble Death: Martyrdom and Suicide among Jews and Christians in Antiquity and Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture.

Sunday, December 7

Session 5: Summary and Positions

Leaving the Bones Behind: A Resurrected Jesus Tradition with an Intact Tomb
James Tabor, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; author of Things Unutterable, A Noble Death (with A.J. Droge), and most recently, The Jesus Dynasty: A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity.

Jesus and the ‘End’ of Biblical Studies
Hector Avalos, professor of religious studies, Iowa State University; author of This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies, co-edited with Sarah Melcher and Jeremy Schipper; The End of Biblical Studies; Strangers in Our Own Land: Religion in U.S. Latina/o Literature; member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion

youngalexander · 10-27-2008, 08:08 PM

I recall a quoted comment from a previous thread to the effect that, owing to the paucity of evidence, the discussion would be wrapped up in half an hour.

Seems that they have found a trifle more than that to digest!

Toto · 11-19-2008, 01:15 AM

press release

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The proceedings of the meeting will be recorded. In keeping with the stated objectives of the project, its work will be the subject of an annual report consisting of essays and articles to be published by Prometheus Books and the CSER bi-annual journal, CAESAR: A Journal for the Critical Study of Religion.

No Robots · 12-04-2008, 03:03 PM

The Conference starts tomorrow.

Agenda.

Anyone able to do any live-blogging?

Toto · 12-04-2008, 03:26 PM

I don't know anyone who is going to be there, other than the participants. I would check Richard Carrier's blog.

No Robots · 12-04-2008, 03:29 PM

That's too bad. Not even reporters?

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10-19-2008, 11:16 PM	#11
Loomis Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The recesses of Zaphon Posts: 969	Damn. Looks like fun. Will they ever come to LA?

10-19-2008, 11:19 PM	#12
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	The original announcement said that they would meet on the east coast and on the west coast. I expect them in LA next June.

10-27-2008, 08:08 PM	#16
youngalexander Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Mornington Peninsula Posts: 1,306	I recall a quoted comment from a previous thread to the effect that, owing to the paucity of evidence, the discussion would be wrapped up in half an hour. Seems that they have found a trifle more than that to digest!

12-04-2008, 03:03 PM	#18
No Robots Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Edmonton Posts: 5,679	The Conference starts tomorrow. Agenda. Anyone able to do any live-blogging?

12-04-2008, 03:26 PM	#19
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	I don't know anyone who is going to be there, other than the participants. I would check Richard Carrier's blog.

12-04-2008, 03:29 PM	#20
No Robots Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Edmonton Posts: 5,679	That's too bad. Not even reporters?

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