[escepticos] Oriental and Celtic Thought: Millenial Themes

[Julio Arrieta <julius_es@...>]

Hola amiguetes:
¿Alguien va a darse una vuelta por Dublin los días 28
al 30 de junio?
Entonces esto puede resultarle interesante.
Saludos,
Julius



[ with the usual apologies for cross-posting ]

The Consultative Committee on Biblical and Near
Eastern Studies of the 
Royal Irish Academy has organised a 2000 CONFERENCE
on:

Oriental and Celtic Thought: Millennial Themes

  in Dublin --- 28th - 30th June, 2000

  Further details and registration forms can be
obtained from:
Ms. Marion Deegan, Royal Irish Academy, Email:
m.deegan en ria.ie
Fax:  + 353- 1-676 2346

Here is part of the conference announcement;

Rationale of Conference
In the opening of her recent paper on Apocalyptic
Themes in Biblical 
Literature, Adela Yarbro Collins writes
(Interpretation 53 (n.2, April 
1999):
Two kinds of apocalyptic themes appear in biblical
literature.  One 
type is 
intrinsic to the genre 'apocalypse' whose themes
include the idea of 
revelation and narratives about the reception of
revelation through 
dreams, 
visions, hearing voices, or taking journeys to heaven
and other 
normally 
inaccessible places.  They also include the idea of
the fulfilment of 
history, for example in a final, universal, peaceful,
prosperous 
community 
or in the destruction of the world and a new creation,
including the 
resurrection of the dead.  The other type is less
closely related to 
the 
genre 'apocalypse' but includes themes that cohere
with the first 
group, 
such as the combat myth and Antichrist.

PRELIMINARY P R O G R A M M E
  Wednesday, 28 June

6.30 p.m.       REGISTRATION

         7.00 p.m.       OPENING of Conference
                         Professor David Spearman,
                         President, Royal Irish
Academy

Chairperson: Professor John Bartlett

ACADEMY DISCOURSE & KEYNOTE ADDRESS

'Enoch in Millennial Perspective: On the Counter
Cultural History of an 
Apocalyptic Hero'

Professor Philip S. Alexander, University of
Manchester

8.00 p.m.       WINE RECEPTION (Members room, Academy
House)


Thursday, 29 June

9.30-10.15 Journeys to the World Beyond in Ancient
Judaism
Professor John J. Collins, University of Chicago

10.15-10.45     TEA/COFFEE
10.45-11.30     Apocalyptic in Qumran
Professor Florentino García Martínez, University of
Groningen

11.30-12.15     The Apocalypse of John and its
Millennial Themes
                         Professor Adela Yarbro
Collins, University of 
Chicago

12.15-1.45      LUNCH

1.45-2.30 Irish Vision Literature: Fís Adamnáin
                         Dr John Carey, National
University of Ireland, 
Cork

2.30-3.15       Visions of the End and Irish High
Crosses
Dr Kees Veelenturf , Titus Brandsma Instituut,
Katholieke Universiteit 
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

3.15-3.45 TEA/COFFEE

4.00-5.00       GUIDED TOUR of pre-Christian and early
Christian 
Antiquities in the National Museum (Kildare Street)

5.00 p.m.       CONFERENCE RECEPTION at the National
Museum, hosted by 
the
National Museum of Ireland (Kildare Street)

Friday, 30 June
9.30-10.15      Irish Apocalyptic and Eschatological
Literature
Professor Martin McNamara

10.15-10.45 TEA/COFFEE

10.45-11.30     On the Middle Welsh Poem 'Arymes Dydd
Brawt' (HGC VIII)
Professor Pierre-Yves Lambert, C.N.R.S. & E.P.H.E,
Paris

11.30-12.15     The Apocalypse of Paul: Its Previous
History and its 
Afterlife
Dr Anthony Hilhorst, University of Groningen
12.15-2.00      LUNCH

2.00-2.45       Irish Voyage Literature: The Voyage of
Bran
Dr Donncha Ó hAodha, National University of Ireland,
Galway

2.45-3.30         Oriental and Celtic Links: Summary
and General 
Discussion
Introduced and Chaired by Professor John Bartlett

3.30-3.45       CLOSE of Colloquium

Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros en iol.ie



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