ANNOUNCEMENT

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

Emmanuel Papoutsakis

epapouts@princeton.edu
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Princeton University
110 Jones Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

[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.

Participants :

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)

Discussants :

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)

[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.]