Van 30 augustus tot en met 1 september wordt in Utrecht het congres ‘God’s Word Questioned’ gehouden. In deze conferentie brengen we de ontwikkeling en impact van Bijbelse kritiek in kaart. Wij stellen de vragen: wanneer en hoe botsten filologen en theologen met elkaar? Sloten ze ook op elkaar aan? Hoe kwamen de discussies tussen professoren in de publieke sfeer? Hoe profiteerden radicale denkers van deze fricties?
Programme
Thursday, 30 August: Philology
09.00-9.45: Coffee, Tea
Opening
9.45-10.00: Henk Nellen (The Hague)
An Outline of Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age, I: The First Half of the Century
10.00-10.15: Piet Steenbakkers (Utrecht)
An Outline of Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age, II: The Second Half of the Century
1. Philology I: Greek and Latin Scholars
Chair: Geert Lernout
10.15-10.45: Grantley McDonald (Leuven)
Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and the Politics of Biblical Scholarship (abstract)
10.45-11.30: Coffee Break
11.30-12.00: Ralph Häfner (Freiburg/Breisgau)
Biblical Poetry and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism in the Early Seventeenth Century(abstract)
12.00-12.30: Dirk van Miert (The Hague)
The Janus Face of Scaliger’s Heritage: Heinsius and Grotius (abstract)
12.30-13.00: Jan Krans (Amsterdam)
Stronger than Fiction. The ‘Velesian Readings’ of the Greek New Testament (abstract)
13.00-14.30: Lunch
2. Philology II: Hebrew Scholars
Chair: Jetze Touber (Utrecht)
14.30-15.00: Irene Zwiep and David Kromhout (Amsterdam)
The Jewish Bible in the Seventeenth Century (abstract)
15.00-15.30: Theodor Dunkelgrün (Chicago)
The Biblia Hebraica (1666-67) of Joseph Athias and Johannes Leusden (abstract)
15.30-16.00: Tea Break
Chair: Jonathan Sheehan
16.00-16.30: Jason Rosenblatt (Washington DC)
John Selden Distributes What Hugo Grotius Condenses: a Case Study of Rabbinic Exegesis of Scripture (abstract)
16.30-17.00: Martin Mulsow (London)
Johann Ernst Gerhard’s Oriental Studies and Dutch Biblical Scholarship (abstract)
19.00: Conference dinner
Friday, 31 August: Remonstrants and Spinozists
09.00-9.30: Coffee, Tea
3. Reformed orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Chair: Theo Verbeek
9.30-10.00: Aza Goudriaan (Amsterdam)
Views on the Bible and the World in Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) (abstract)
10.00-10.30: Jetze Touber (Utrecht)
Cocceian Biblical Studies in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century (abstract)
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
Chair: Theodor Dunkelgrün
11.00-11.30: Kestutis Daugirdas (Mainz)
The Biblical Hermeneutics of Philipp van Limborch and its Historical Challenges (abstract)
11.30-12.00: Keith Stanglin (Austin)
Inspiration and Authority of Scripture in Simon Episcopius and Etienne de Courcelles(abstract)
12.00-12.30: Theo Verbeek (Utrecht)
Chapter 7 of the Tractatus theologico-politicus: What is it all about? (abstract)
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: 2 Hour Break
16.00-17.30: Speakers depart by bus from Janskerkhof, Utrecht, to Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam
17.30-19.30: Dinner (at own costs) near Nieuwmarkt
(it is advisable to start ordering dinner between 17.30 and 18.00)
Friday Evening: Public Lectures
Spinoza’s Critique of God’s Word: Bashing the Bible?
Venue: Trippenhuis (address: Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam; close to Nieuwmarkt square)
Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht)
20.00-20.30: Anthony Grafton (Princeton)
Spinoza’s Hermeneutics: Some Heretical Thoughts?
20.45-21.15: Jonathan Israel (Princeton)
Did Spinoza Declare War on Theology and Theologians?
21.15-21.45: Audience discussion
21.45-22.00: Book presentation
Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship
eds Eric Jorink and Dirk van Miert
Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 214, Leiden and Boston (Brill) 2012
22.00: Drinks
23.00: Bus returns to Utrecht
Saturday, 1 September
9.00-9.30: Coffee, Tea
5. Late Seventeenth-Century Biblical Scholarship
Chair: Keith Stanglin
9.30-10.00: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
Anthonie van Dale (1638-1708) and the Authority of the Septuagint (abstract)
10.00-10.30: Jonathan Sheehan (Berkeley)
Scripture against Christianity: Hobbes, Theology, and the Martyrs (abstract)
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
Chair: Piet Steenbakkers
11.00-11.30: Luisa Simonutti (Ferrara)
Locke’s Biblical Hermeneutics on Bodily Resurrection (abstract)
11.30-12.00: Maria Cristina Pitassi (Geneva)
Bayle, the Bible and the Remonstrant Tradition (abstract)
12.00-12.30: Jean Bernier (Geneva)
Pierre Bayle and Bible Scholarship (abstract)
12.30-14.00: Lunch
6. Early Eighteenth-Century Biblical Scholarship
Chair: Luisa Simonutti
14.00-14.30: Bernd Roling (Berlin)
The Limits of Scepticism: Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) and his Followers on Dutch Biblical Criticism (abstract)
14.30-15.00: Geert Lernout (Antwerp)
Richard Bentley’s Proposed Edition of the Bible (abstract)
Closure
15.00-15.30: Henk Nellen and Piet Steenbakkers
Today’s Last Words on God’s Word
15.30-16.30: Drinks
Zie hier meer informatie over het congres.