Teaching Morality in Antiquitiy: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images
Morallehren in der Antike: Weisheitstexte, Bilder und mündliche Traditionen
29. November bis 01. Dezember 2016 im Vortragssaal der Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 Leipzig.
Um Anmeldung wird gebeten, bitte direkt an Dr. Takayoshi Oshima: t_m_oshima(at)uni-leipzig.de.
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Opening Lecture/Eröffnungsvortrag:
Prof. Jan Assmann (Heidelberg University)
Tugenden und Pflichten nach altägyptischen Morallehren
Prof. Jan Dietrich (Århus University)
Wisdom in the Cultures of the ancient World: A general Introduction and Comparison
Prof. Izak Cornelius (Stellenbosch University)
Visual imagery as embodiment of divine order and authority in the Ancient Near East
Prof. Edward L. Greenstein (Bar Ilan University)
Proverbs and Popular Sayings, Real or Invented, in the Book of Job
Prof. Thomas Krüger (University of Zurich)
Moral und Religion in der sog. Hiob-Literatur des alten Orients
Prof. Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (University of Vienna)
„Jetzt aber hat mein Auge dich geschaut“ (Ijob 42,5): Gibt es im Ijobbuch eine Lösung des Problems auf der Ebene des Bewusstseins?
Dr. Alexandra von Lieven (Freie Universität Berlin)
„Ich habe nicht befohlen, daß sie Unrecht tun“. Das Theodizee-Problem im Alten Ägypten
Prof. Dominick Hernández (Moody Bible Institute-Spokane)
The Expression of Moral Judgments through Imagery in Job and Ancient Near Eastern Literature
Dr. Nili Samet (Bar Ilan University)
Qohelet between Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Traditions
Dr T.M. Oshima (University of Leipzig)
Seeking to No Avail: the Sceptic in the so-called Babylonian Theodicy
Prof. Herbert Niehr (University of Tübingen)
Weisheit in den Königsepen aus Ugarit
Judith E. Filitz MA (University of Leipzig)
At the Threshold of “Cult” and “Theatre” – Another Means of Looking at a Mesopotamian Ritual
Prof. Christoph Levin (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Abimelechs Königtum, oder: Die Eskalation der Theodizee
Dr Enrique Jiménez (Yale University)
New Babylonian Disputation Poems
Prof. Alan Lenzi (University of the Pacific)
“Counsels of Wisdom” as “White-Collar” Wisdom in First Millennium Ancient Mesopotamia
Prof. Gebhard Selz (University of Vienna)
Teaching morality in Ancient Sumer.
Prof. Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
Why “Wisdom”? The Purposes and Aims of Copying, Studying and Collecting Wisdom Literature in the Cuneiform World
Prof. Daniel Bodi (University of Paris 4 – La Sorbonne)
Two Animal Proverbs in Ahiqar and in Aesop On Human Relationships: Mercilessness and Sharing
Dr Karolina Prochownik (Jagiellonian University)
Gods and goodness by the rivers of Babylon: cognitive scientific approaches to ancient Mesopotamian moral theologies
Dr Yitzhaq Feder (University of Haifa)
Morality Without Gods?: Retribution and the Foundations of the Moral Order in the Ancient Near East