"The Byzantine Liturgy and the Jews"
Conference Program, July 9-11, 2019
Conference venue: Sibiu Ramada Hotel
Organizers: Alexandru Ioniță, Antoaneta Sabău, Stefan Tobler
The conference is part of the research project Jewish-Christian Dialogue between Religious Tolerance and Anti-Semitism: Documents, Interpretations, Perspectives in the Christian Orthodox Context, funded by the UEFISCDI as PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0699.
Institute of Ecumenical Research, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania
Monday, July 8
16.00-18.00 | City Tour (meeting point: Ramada ground floor hall)
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18.30-20.00 | Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall)
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Tuesday, July 9
08.30-09.00
| Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall) |
09.00-09.30
| Opening Address (Ramada Alfa Room) |
09.30-11.00
| Session I – Chair: Stefan Tobler |
Michael Azar Israel: The People of God in Byzantine Liturgy
Bogdan Bucur Missing the (Theophanic) Point: A Blind Spot in Patristic Scholarship and Its Consequences for Understanding Anti-Jewish Texts in Byzantine Festal Hymns
Alexandru Ioniță Mapping the Anti-Jewish Topoi of the Triodion
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11.00-11.30
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11.30-13.00 | Session II – Chair: Bronwen Neil
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Patrick Andrist Le De Paschα de Méliton et son contexte: existait-il, dans l’Antiquité, une tradition chrétienne de polémique antijudaïque dans les liturgies de la période de Pâques? / Contextualising Melito’s De Paschα: Was There, in Antiquity, a Christian Tradition of Polemics Adversus Iudaeos in the Liturgies Around Easter?
Harald Buchinger Anti-Judaism at the Origins of the Byzantine Liturgical Year: “Israel” and “the Jews” in Severian of Gabala’s Festal Homilies
István Perczel Is Saint John Chrysostom the Father of Byzantine anti-Semitism? In Memoriam Zvetlana-Mihaela Tanasă
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13.00-15.00 | Lunch Break
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15.00-17.00
| Session III – Chair: Harald Buchinger
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Eliane Poirot Les seize Discours liturgiques de Grégoire de Nazianze dans la liturgie byzantine
Radu Gheorghe Gârbacea “Consider with me…the Jews’ Folly”: the Image of the Jews in the Patristic Homilies and the Hymnography on Lazarus
Bronwen Neil Mary and the Jews in the Byzantine Liturgy in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
Basilius Groen The Strained Relationship between Venerating Old Testament Saints and Singing anti-Jewish Hymns
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17.00-17.30 | Coffee Break
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17.30-19.00
| Session IV – Chair: Partick Andrist
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Doru Constantin Doroftei Christ, Christians, and Christianity in the Palestinian Aramaic Poetry of Late Antiquity
Ruth Langer, Demetrios E. Tonias The Self through the Other in Byzantine and Jewish Liturgies: A Comparative Exercise
Barbara Crostini The Objects of Jewish Cult from a Christian Perspective: Materiality and Mediation in Faith and Worship
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19.30 | Conference festive dinner (Ramada Hotel) |
Wednesday, July 10
09.00-11.00 | Session V – Chair: Alexandru Ioniță
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Sandrine Caneri La prière liturgique au regard de l’Évangile: comment les juifs sont-ils présentés?
Vadim Wittkowsky Das Bild der „Juden“ in der orthodoxen Karwochenliturgie vor dem Hintergrund der „antijüdischen“ Stellen des Neuen Testaments
Alexandru Mihăilă Quoting Scripture against the Jews in the Holy Week Orthodox Cult
Peter Ebenbauer „Mein Volk, was habe ich dir getan?“ Die Karfreitags-Improperien in den gegenwärtigen Ordnungen des byzantinischen und des römisch-katholischen Ritus
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11.00-11.30 | Coffee break
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11.30-13.00
| Session VIa – Alfa Room Chair: Stephen Shoemaker
| Session VIb – Betta Room Chair: Pablo Argárate | |
Evelina Mineva The Jews in the Hymns of John Damascus, Marcos Eugenikos and in the South Slavic Translations of Byzantine Hymns
Nadieszda Kizenko The Long Shadow of Byzantine Anti-Jewish Liturgical Texts: the Church Slavonic Service to Martyr Gavriil of Bielostok in Late Imperial Russia Victoria Legkikh Christians as the New People through the Images of Old Testament in Byzantine and Russian Orthodox Hymnography
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Andrew of Crete’s Anti-Jewish Hymnography of the Triodion
Eirini Artemi
The Psalms, the Hymns and the Texts of the Old Testament and Their Use in Holy Monday and Tuesday
Paraskevi Toma
Politically Correct or Just not Anti-Jewish: Reconstructing the Profile of the Middle Byzantine Hymnographer
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13.00-15.00 | Lunch Break
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15.00-17.00 | Session VII – Chair: Reinhart Ceulemans
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Bernard Outtier L’image des Juifs dans l’hymnographie arménienne et géorgienne ancienne
Stephen J Shoemaker Passion Piety and Anti-Judaism in Late Ancient Jerusalem: Hymns for the Holy Week from the Jerusalem Georgian Chantbook
Baby Varghese Cult of the Old Testament Saint and Anti-Judaic Polemics in the Syrian Orthodox Liturgy
Pablo Argárate Israel and the Jews in the Kontakia of Romanos Melodos
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17.00-17.30 | Coffee Break
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17.30-19.00
| Session VIII – Chair: Ruth Langer | ||
Gaga Shurgaia Nέα ʼΙερουσαλήμ: Holiness and Royalty Transplanted
Cătălin Popa Ștefan Encountering the Other in the Holy City. Anti-Jewish Literary Constructions in Syriac and Arabic Sources on the Muslim Conquest of Jerusalem
Răzvan Perșa The Jews in the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church | |||
Thursday, July 11
9.00-9.30 | Poster Presentation
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| Nataliia Kostiuk Images of the Old Testament in a Liturgy of the 18th – Early 19th Centuries: Some Aspects of Use of Texts of «The Book of Psalms»
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9.30-11.00 |
Session IX – Chair: Barbara Crostini
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Agnieszka Gronek Representations of the Sanhedrin in Post-Byzantine Art
Tereza Sinigalia The Image of the Jews at the Last Judgement – Case Studies in Some Murals in Northern Moldavia in the 16th Century
Charalampos Minaoglou The Byzantine Liturgy and the Post-Byzantine Anti-Jewish Literature
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11.00-11.30 | Coffee break
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11.30-13.00
| Session X – Chair: Doru Doroftei
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Reinhart Ceulemans Anti-Jewish Measures from Macedonian Emperors: the Role of the Bible
Ana-Maria Răducan Jewish Authors in the Patriarch’ Bibliotheke
Alexander Zanemonets “I reject Every Jewish Custom”: Byzantine Formulas of Renouncing Judaism in the 11th Century
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13.00-15.00 | Lunch Break
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15.00-17.00
| Session XI – Chair: Bogdan Bucur
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Ionuț Biliuță “Through Their Sacrifice, They Silenced the Shameless Jews!”: Antisemitic Tropes in the Liturgy of the Saints of the Communist Prisons in Contemporary Romania
Marian Pătru The Liturgical Construction of Jewishness. The Image of the Jew and Judaism in the Homiletical Discourse of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Interwar Period.
Ioan Chirilă, Cătălin Varga “The Glory of Your people Israel” (Lk. 2:32). The Nunc dimittis in the Romanian Orthodox Vespers of the 20th century and Israel’s Dilemma in the Oral Liturgical Tradition
Alina Pătru Reception of Liturgical Hymns by Christian Orthodox Service Attenders
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17.00-17.30 | Coffee Break
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17.30-19.00 | Session XII – Conclusive discussion – Chairs: Stefan Tobler & Alexandru Ioniță
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July 12-13, Conference Trip
July 12, 09.00 July 13, 21.00 | Departure for the conference trip (Ramada Parking) Arrival back to Sibiu (Ramada Parking) |