Symbols of Church and Kingdom Syriac Studies Workshop Princeton University, May 4-6, 2005

[1] The Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Group for the Study of Late Antiquity, Princeton University, with the support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, will host a Syriac Studies Workshop, May 4-6, 2005. This workshop is organized in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Robert Murray's pioneering book, Symbols of Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition (1975; second revised edition 2004). The participants will present forty-five minute papers and a round-table discussion will follow. If you wish to attend, please RSVP to Emmanuel Papoutsakis (epapouts@princeton.edu) by April 11, 2005.

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Participants :

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Sebastian P. Brock (University of Oxford) J.F. Coakley (Harvard University) Alexander Golitzin (Marquette University) Sidney H. Griffith (The Catholic University of America) Robert Murray (Heythrop College , University of London) Emmanuel Papoutsakis (Princeton University) Ute Possekel (Independent Scholar, Boston) Lucas Van Rompay (Duke University) Alison G. Salvesen (University of Oxford) David G.K. Taylor (University of Oxford)

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Discussants :

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Susan Ashbrook-Harvey (Brown University) Glen W. Bowersock (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Peter Brown (Princeton University) Kathleen McVey (Princeton Theological Seminary) Iain Torrance (Princeton Theological Seminary)

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[2] [Gorgias Press, the publisher of Robert Murray's Symbols of Church and Kingdom (second revised edition 2004), will hold a lunch party and a signing event after the conference on Saturday May 7, 1995 in Piscataway, NJ.]