Ethnicity and Religion

A Colloquium of the Classics Department, University of Reading and the AHRC Parkes Centre’s Greek Bible project.

Wednesday 11 May 2005, 2-5pm

Location: University of Reading, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, room 27

This short colloquium will explore the conceptualization and language of ethnicity in later Greek writing. The multi-layered handling of ethnic and religious identities in Greek-Jewish texts offers rich material which awaits integration into the wider picture

Principal speakers:

Tessa Rajak (Reading)
Introduction: Jewish and Other Ethnicities

John Barclay (Durham)
Jewish Ethnicity as Collage: geography, history and political philosophy in Josephus' Against Apion

Sarah Pearce (Southampton)
Philo of Alexandria on Egypt and Egyptians

Lunch will be provided for visitors from outside Reading.