Conference Presentations

2021

Ammann, Sonja, “The Fall of Jerusalem: Cultural Trauma as a Process”, 05.08.2021, EABS Annual Meeting (August 2021).

Ammann, Sonja, “Das Schicksal des Volkes: Transformationsprozesse alttestamentlicher Geschichtserzählungen am Beispiel der babylonischen Eroberung Jerusalems”, 06.09.2021, XVII. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie, Universität Zürich.

Ammann, Sonja, “Moods of Exile: How Affects Affect Historiography”, November 2021, SBL Annual Meeting, Historiography and the Hebrew Bible section, San Antonio (TX)

Bezold, Helge, "Violence is Power!? Negotiating Power and the Depiction of Jewish Violence in the Ancient Esther Tradition" (Online Workshop on "Jewish Authors and Power in the Graeco-Roman Period", June 2021)

Bezold, Helge, "'Jews as a 'Warlike and Rebellious People': The Intensification of Anti-Jewish Sentiments in the Ancient Esther Traditions." (SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2021).

Germany, Stephen,“Yahwistic Communities in Persian-Period Gilead? Biblical and Extrabiblical Perspectives” (EABS Annual Meeting (August 2021)

2020

Ammann, Sonja, "597 oder 587 als Zäsur? Transformationsprozesse alttestamentlicher Geschichtserzählungen am Beispiel der babylonischen Eroberung Jerusalems." WGTh / Europäischer Kongress für Theologie, Zürich (rescheduled for 2021).

Germany, Stephen, "Reconsidering the Historical Background of the 'Edom Texts' in Samuel–Kings." Research colloquium, Zürich, November 6, 2020.

Rhyder, Julia, "The Pig and Memories of the Maccabean Revolt". Invited contribution to the colloquium Animaux et Religion dans l’Antiquité, Université de Lausanne.

Rhyder, Julia, "God, Temple, and Political Theology in Second Maccabees." Invited paper at the e-conference "Political Theology." University of Divinity, Australia. July 10, 2020.

 

2019

Ammann, Sonja, "2 Kings 24-25 and Jer 52 as Converging Memories of the Babylonian Conquest", SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 23–26, 2019.

Bezold, Helge, "The Empire Within: Hasmonean Perspectives on Imperial Power in the Book of Esther." EABS Annual Conference, Warsaw, August 11–14, 2019.

Germany, Stephen, “Self-defense as a Justification for Conquest in ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Literature”, Graduate Meeting, Göttingen, June 21–22, 2019.

Germany, Stephen, “Divine and Human Agency in the Conquest Accounts in Joshua and Judges”. Celtic Conference in Classics, Coimbra, June 26–29, 2019.

Germany, Stephen, “Delegitimizing Intrareligious Violence in Josh 22: An Argument from the Periphery to the Center”. Religiöse (De-)Legitimationsansätze von Gewalt in der Antike, Mainz, Sepbember 5–7, 2019.

Germany, Stephen, “Israelite and Judahite Military Alliances between Myth and History: Case Studies from the Former Prophets”. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 23–26, 2019.

Rhyder, Julia, "The Commemoration of Violence in 1 and 2 Maccabees: Hanukkah and the Day of Nicanor". SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 23–26, 2019.