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Matthias Simperl, Augsburg: Spätantike exegetische Fragmente in der Palimpsesthandschrift Klagenfurt, UB PE 48

Die Palimpsesthandschrift Klagenfurt, UB PE 48, besteht heute nur noch aus einer Handvoll Pergamenstreifen, deren Inhalt es jedoch in sich hat: In zwei Schriften des frühen sechsten Jahrhunderts (Unziale, Halbunziale) überliefert die Handschrift als einziger antiker Zeuge Teile der Silvesterlegende und außerdem einen exegetischen Text, bei dem es sich nach bisherigem Eindruck um eine bisher unbekannte Auslegung des Matthäusevangeliums handelt. Im kommenden Gesprächskreis möchte ich gerne Überlieferung und Rekonstruktion der einstigen Handschrift(en) vorstellen und die Einordnung der exegetischen Fragmente diskutieren.

Dan Batovici, Wien: The Literary Career of Polycarp of Smyrna

This talk introduces the GenAut project recently launched at the ETF and then discusses in some detail one early Christian individual in it, Polycarp of Smyrna. Apart from the epistle to the Philippians attributed to him, this literary dossier includes the Martyrdom of Polycarp, a Life of Polycarp, another martyrdom narrative found only in Coptic, and a Byzantine panegyric of Polycarp, each with a peculiar transmission in the various contexts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean. The talk will trace the development of the literary career of Polycarp and its lateral connections to other similar early Christian literary figures like Ignatius of Antioch and Dionysius the Areopagite.

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Madalina Toca, Wien: Ten letters made canons: Isidore of Pelusium’s letters in Syriac canonical collections 

There are about ten letters of Isidore of Pelusium translated and copied in Syriac canonical collections (as found in Vat. syr. 560 and Charfet, Rahmani 87), reading mainly as regulations for different holders of offices (what should an archdeacon, priest, bishop, archon, the emperor, etc., do) In this paper I would like to explore the rationale as to why these particular Isidorian letters were included in the canonical collections, and to what extent they were indeed the best candidates for that. I will also tackle the question of why a later copy would lose or remove the letter to the emperor (Theodosius II) in particular, and in conclusion compare these data with similar practices in Latin collections.

Canan Arikan-Caba, Wien: Anathemas in the name of the 318 Fathers of Nicaea in inscriptions

Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina, New York (Fordham University)

Circumcision and the Invention of the Christian People

Matthias Simperl, Augsburg

γεννάω und γί(γ)νομαι in der Trinitätstheologie

Canan Arikan-Caba, Wien

Clerics and Building Inscriptions

Florian Wöller, Kopenhagen

Spacing. Methodische Überlegungen zu spätantiken Prozessionen

Florian Zacher, Tübingen

Marius Victorinus als christlicher Philosoph

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Michaela Durst, Wien

Glaube, Liebe und Hoffnung bei Augustinus

Matthias Simperl, Augsburg

Die Entstehung des Liber Pontificalis

Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina

Augustine on Circumcision

Madalina Toca

Isidor of Pelusium / Formation of Letter Collections

Vladimir Ivanovici, Wien

Maria in Kathisma

Uta Heil, Wien

Die Vielfalt der Kommentare in den Psalmenkatenen

Renate Burri mit Katharina Heyden

Hesychasmus

Matthias Simperl, Augsburg

Das Schreiben der Synode von Antiochia (324/325)

Sara Contini, Tübingen

On Jerome’s commentaries on Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, and Ezekiel which deal with human dignitas and can be compared to a Greek predecessor, namely Didymus, Eusebius, and Origen.