The official Program - Egyptian and Jewish Magic in Antiquity

The official Program - Egyptian and Jewish Magic in Antiquity

Egyptian and Jewish Magic in Antiquity, 5-9 July 2015
05.07.15 Sunday (Regina-Pacis Weg 7)
06.07.15 Monday (Heussallee 18-24)
“Language, Scripts, Scribes, and Priests”
CHAIR: Jaques van der Vliet
09.30-10.10
Ludwig D. Morenz, “Magic vs. Heka. Approaches to
a Terminological Issue”
07.07.15 Tuesday (Heussallee 18-24)
“Cross-cultural Contacts”
CHAIR: Richard Gordon
09.30-10.10
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer,
“Multicultural Influences in Greek Fever Amulets”
10.10-10.50
Alessandro Roccati, “Script(s) and Magic in Ancient
Egypt”
10.10-10.50
Erika Zwierlein-Diehl, “The Snake-Legged God of the
Magical Gems: Nature, Egyptian and Jewish
Influences, Afterlife”
10.50-11.30
Franziska Naether, “Lot Oracles in a Graeco-EgyptianJudaic Tradition”
10.50-11.30
Kirsten Dzwiza, “Magical Signs in Ritual Manuals
from Egypt – The Greek, Demotic, and Coptic
sources”
11.30-11.50
COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Alexandra von Lieven
11.50-12.30
Jacques van der Vliet, “Preserving Power: The
Textual Transmission of a Late-Antique Prayer of
the Virgin Mary”
12.30-13.10
Joseph Emanuel Sanzo, “Did the Bible Change
Magic in Egypt? Continuity and Change in the Use
of Authoritative Traditions for Ritual Power in
Egypt during Late Antiquity”
13.10-14.40
LUNCH
CHAIR: Joachim Friedrich Quack
14.40-15.20
Alexandra von Lieven, “Joy of Sex and Male
Progeny. Two Magic Spells in Funerary Adaptation”
15.20-15.40
Avigail Manekin Bamberger, “Legal Formulae in
Ancient Jewish Magic”
18.00-22.00
Opening Session and Reception
Venue: Egyptian Museum.
Special Exhibition: “Ägyptische Magie
neben Kunst und Schrift”
Ludwig D. Morenz, Greetings
Gideon Bohak, Rita Lucarelli,
“Methodological Introduction”
15.40-16.40
Laboratory: Bill Rebiger and Tonio Sebastian
Richter, “Hebrew-Coptic Alphabet Charts in
Magical Fragments from the Cairo Genizah”
11.30-11.50
COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Alessia Bellusci
11.50-12.30
Joachim Friedrich Quack, “The Historical Development
of Demotic Egyptian Magic”
08.07.15 Wednesday (Heussallee 18-24)
“Texts, Objects and Materiality”
CHAIR: Christopher Faraone
09.30-10.10
Panagiotis Kousolis, “The Materiality of the Egyptian
Magical and Popular Beliefs in the Early Iron Age Eastern
Mediterranean: Questions on Cultural and Local
Adaptations of the Religious Aegyptiaca”
10.10-10.50
Angelika Berlejung, “Amulets from Ancient
Israel/Palestine in the Persian Period”
09.07.15 Thursday (Heussallee 18-24)
“Demons and Gods”
CHAIR: Ida Fröhlich
09.00-10.00
Laboratory: Kasia Szpakowska, “Experiential Workshop
on Classification and Deconstruction of Demonic
Entities”
10.50-11.30
Árpád Miklós Nagy, “Hós Prokeitai. Magical Gems and
Papyri”
10.40-11.20
Rita Lucarelli, “Ancient Egyptian Demonology: A
Comparative Perspective”
11.30-11.50
COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Gideon Bohak
11.50-12.50
Laboratory: Alessia Bellusci, “The Cairo Genizah: Texts
and Material Objects”
11.20-11.40
COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Rita Lucarelli
11.40-12.20
Ida Fröhlich, “Qumran Demonology”
12.30-13.10
Bill Rebiger, “How much Egypt is in Sefer Ha-Razim?”
12.50-14.30
LUNCH
13.10-14.30
LUNCH
14.30-15.30
Laboratory: Richard Gordon, “Seminar Discussion on
PGrMag IV 930-1114”
Activity:
Visit to the Collection of Magical Gems at the
Akademisches Kunstmuseum of the University of Bonn
(Guide: Erika Zwierlein-Diehl)
CHAIR: Angelika Berlejung
14.30-15.10
Christopher Faraone, “A Copper Plaque in the Louvre
(inv. AD 003732): Amulet or Handbook?”
15.10-15.50
Jacco Dielemann, “Egyptian and Jewish Textual Amulets
in Antiquity”
15.50-16.10
COFFEE BREAK
16.10-17.10
Laboratory: Gideon Bohak, “Editing a Fifteenth-Century
Manuscript of Jewish Magic”
10.00-10.40
Susanne Beck, “Sāmānu: A Demon goes West”
12.20-12.50
Emma Abate, “Azazel and the Fallen Angels in the
magical Fragments from the Genizah”