"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)

 

18.30-20.00

Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall)

 

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

 

11.00-11.30

 

Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Session II – Chair: Bronwen Neil

 

 

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

 

13.00-15.00

Lunch Break

 

15.00-17.00

 

Session III – Chair: Harald Buchinger

 

 

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

 

17.00-17.30

Coffee Break

 

17.30-19.00

 

Session IV – Chair: Partick Andrist

 

 

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

 

19.30

Conference festive dinner (Ramada Hotel)

 

Wednesday, July 10

 

09.00-11.00

Session V – Chair: Alexandru Ioniță

 

 

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

 

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

 

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

 

Alexandru Prelipcean

 

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

 

13.00-15.00

Lunch Break

 

15.00-17.00

Session VII – Chair: Reinhart Ceulemans

 

 

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

 

17.00-17.30

Coffee Break

 

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

 

 

 

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»

 

 

 

9.30-11.00

 

Session IX – Chair: Barbara Crostini

 

 

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

 

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

 

11.30-13.00

 

Session X – Chair: Doru Doroftei

 

 

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

 

13.00-15.00

Lunch Break

 

15.00-17.00

 

Session XI – Chair: Bogdan Bucur

 

 

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

 

17.00-17.30

Coffee Break

 

17.30-19.00

Session XII – Conclusive discussion – Chairs: Stefan Tobler & Alexandru Ioniță

 

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)