HUGOYE: JOURNAL OF SYRIAC STUDIES

CONFERENCE REPORT

Syriac Papers at The North American Patristic Society Annual Meeting
May 24-26, 2001

Kristian S. HEAL

kristian_heal@byu.edu
Brigham Young University
Stadium East House - METI
Provo, UT 84602

[1] The North American Patristic Society held its annual meeting at Loyola University (Chicago) May 24-26, 2001. Syriac studies was well represented at the meeting, not only by the four papers in the session devoted to Syriac Christianity but also by a further three papers included in other sessions.

[2] Following is a list of the papers that were delivered together with details of the sections in which they were included.

• Tina Shepardson, Duke University. "'Exchanging Reed for Reed':  Mapping Contemporary Heretics onto Biblical Jews in Ephrem's Hymns on Faith." (CHRISTIANS AND JEWS:  THREATS, BOTH REAL AND IMAGINED)
• Kristian S. Heal, Brigham Young University. "The Problem of Favoritism:  Genesis 37.3-4 in the early Syriac exegetical tradition." (SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY)
• Emmanuel Papoutsakis, University of Oxford. "The Reception of Aphrahat in fifth/sixth century authors." (SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY)
• Hieromonk Alexander Golitzin, Marquette University. "The Inner Throne:  The adaptation of a motif from apocalyptic literature in Aphrahat of Persia's XIVth Demonstration (with a bow to Robert Murray and Juana Raasch)." (SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY)
• Angela Y. Kim, University of Notre Dame. "The Exegetical Origins of the Sanctus in the Anaphora of Addai and Mari." (SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY)
• Lucas Van Rompay, Duke University. "Theodore of Mopsuestia on Saul and the Woman at Endor (1 Sam. 28):  A recently discovered Greek text and its Syriac ramifications." (ANTIOCHENE EXEGESIS)
• Paul Russell, Chevy Chase, MD. "The Image of the Infant Jesus in Ephraem the Syrian." (ISSUES IN LATER CHRISTOLOGY)