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Major Upcoming Event

"Jesus and the Temple"

December 15-17, 2011

Boca Raton, Florida

IJCO Jesus and the Temple Symposium

MEET DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS IN THE HISTORY AND
ARCHAEOLOGY OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY AT
"JESUS AND THE TEMPLE", DECEMBER 15-17, 2011, BOCA RATON, FL

FOCUS OF THE SYMPOSIUM

Focal Question: How significantly and in what ways did the Temple and its cult help define the social and spiritual life of early Jews, including Jesus and his earliest followers?

Purpose: To correct the popular impression that Jesus despised the Temple and its cult because he attacked the money changers and was apparently condemned by the leading high priests [the historicity of each event must be discussed]. To raise questions which are focused on pre-70 Jews, Jesus, his followers and the Temple and to seek a new consensus on the grid questions.

SESSION PRESENTATIONS PREPARED FOR DIVERSE AUDIENCE BACKGROUND

All presentations, lectures and Q&A are geared to lay-people, ministers and Rabbis, students, teachers, academics and everyone with an interest in Biblical History and Archaeology.

ADMISSION TO THE SYMPOSIUM'S LECTURE SESSIONS IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS A SERVICE TO ALL AND DUE TO THE GENEROSITY OF OUR BENEFACTORS. There are no hidden charges to attend the lectures. (Personal expenses for all meals, parking, if any, and all other personal needs are the responsibility of the attendee.)

SCHEDULE - SEE BELOW FOR AGENDA SCHEDULE

(Please Note: Unforseen influences could modify the order or inclusion of a scheduled item.)

Date/Day Time Activity Location
December 15
Thursday
As you plan it Arrival and Dinner on your own Your choice
  7:30pm

WE START ON TIME
Welcome to Boca:
   JOHN HOFFMAN, Chairman of the Symposium
Welcome to the Symposium:
   JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH, Editor of Proceedings
Lecture:    LEEN RITMEYER:
     "Imagining the Temple Early Jews Knew"
Lecture Hall

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  8:30pm Response: DAN BAHAT "Imagining and Excavating the Temple Area" Lecture Hall
  9:00pm Reception TBA
Date/Day Time Activity Location
December 16
Friday
9:00am Welcome:
   JOHN HOFFMAN
Lecture Hall
  9:02am DAN BAHAT:
   "The Architecture of the Temple"
Lecture Hall
  10:00am Break Lecture Hall
  10:30am MOTTI AVIAM:
    "Temple Symbolism and the Lives of Galilean Jews"
Lecture Hall
  11:30am LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN:
    "The Importance of the Temple for Early Jews"
Lecture Hall
  12:30pm Lunch Break - On your own Your choice
  2:00pm
Session Welcome:
   (Rabbi from local congregation)
Lecture:
   DAN BAHAT:
      "Worship in the Temple"
Lecture Hall
  3:00pm Break Lecture Hall
  3:30pm JAMES. H. CHARLESWORTH:
    "Jesus, the Temple Cult, and the Temple"
Lecture Hall
  4:30pm Free Time Your Choice
  TBD Synagogue Service TBA - Your Option
  8:00pm
(approx.)
Dinner - On your own Your Choice
Date/Day Time Activity Location
December 17
Saturday
9:00am Welcome:
    JIM JOYNER
Lecture Hall
  9:02am GARY A. RENDSBURG:
    "The Davidic Psalms and the Temple"
Lecture Hall
  10:00am Break Lecture Hall
  10:30am JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH:
    "Jesus' Followers and the Power of the Temple""
Lecture Hall
  11:30am HAROLD W. ATTRIDGE:
    "The Temple and the High Priestly Jesus
      in New Testament Texts"
Lecture Hall
  12:30pm Lunch Break - On your own Your Choice
  2:00pm LOREN STUCKENBRUCK:
    "The Temple in the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses"
Lecture Hall
  3:00pm Break Lecture Hall
  3:30pm PANEL DISCUSSION
    GRID QUESTIONS
    Panel Participants include earlier speakers and
    GEORGE ZERVOS
Lecture Hall
  Post-Panel Free Time On Your Own
  Evening "Friends of Foundation (FOF) Members Reception" Will be provided to FOF Members
Date/Day Time Activity Location
December 18
Sunday
Extend your stay in Southeast Florida or return home.

 

SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS AND BRIEF BIO

Harold W. Attridge

HAROLD W. ATTRIDGE
Dean of the Yale Divinity School since 2002. His educational background includes a A.B. from Boston College, a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Harvard. Attridge is one of the leading authorities on Hebrews in which Jesus appears as the enthroned High Priest.

 
Mordechai Aviam

MOTTI AVIAM
Mordechai Aviam was for 11 years the District Archaeologist of the Western Galilee for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Dr. Aviam is the Director of the "Institute for Galilean Archaeology" at the Kinneret Academic College, Israel, in collaboration with the Miler Center for Contemporary Judaism, University of Miami. He also teaches at the Ort Brau de College at Karmiel.

 
Dan Bahat

DAN BAHAT
One of Israel's leading archaeologists and a senior lecturer at the Land of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He is an expert on the Temple Mount, Herod's Palace, and the 1,600- foot tunnel that runs under the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount. He is often featured on TV and is a specialist on the Temple known to Jesus and the early Jews

 
James Charlesworth

JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH
The George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, the Historical Jesus, and the Gospel of John. He is a Founder and Veteran of the Enoch seminar and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch. He is the President of the IJCO and the FJCO and has been honored by over 20 countries.

 
Professor Gary A. Rendsburg

GARY A. RENDSBURG
Gary Rendsburg is the Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.). He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. His main areas of teaching and research are literary approaches to the Bible, the history of ancient Israel, the history of the Hebrew language, and the intersection of ancient Israel and ancient Egypt. He is widely published, offers lectures through The Teaching Company, and is a specialist on the Davidic Psalms.

 
Leen Ritmeyer

LEEN RITMEYER
A Dutch-born archaeological architect who currently lives and works in Wales, having spent 22 years in Jerusalem from 1967-1989. He holds the M.A. in Conservation Studies from the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, England, and the Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England. (From Wikipedia.org) Leen Ritmeyer - Herodian Temple MountThis architectural rendering of the Herodian Temple Mount is Ritmeyer's well-known and widely circulated color drawing of Herod's Temple Mount, along with associated structures and features, as seen from the southwest. This reconstruction is based directly on his own work at the Temple Mount. (From BiblicalArchaeology.org)

 
Lawrence H. Schiffman

LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN
Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies. He had been the Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and serves as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in Late Antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

 
Loren Stuckenbruck

LOREN STUCKENBRUCK
Chairman of the Biblical Department at Princeton Theological Seminary and Richard Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies. Professor, author and editor of books, conference contributions and other publications, Stuckenbruck is one of the world's leading authorities on the Books of Enoch. Major branches of research and teaching are New Testament Research and Second Temple Jewish studies.

 
George Zervos

GEORGE ZERVOS
Associate Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Degrees include Ph.D., Duke University; M.Th., University of Athens; B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Leading authority on the "Birth of Mary" (one of the earliest writings in the New Testament Apocrypha). Areas of Expertise cover Early Christianity, New Testament Studies and New Testament Greek. Introduction to Religion, Greek, Intermediate Greek, Introduction to New Testament, History of Christianity (Early, Medieval and Modern, New Testament Literature, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Greek Language as a Research Tool.

 
Dr. John Hoffman (left) and Jim Joyner

Dr. JOHN HOFFMAN (left) and JIM JOYNER

Working in pre-70 levels of Old Jerusalem.

Hoffman is V.P. and Joyner is Treasurer of the FJCO.

 

SESSION TOPICS FOR PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION (UNDER DEVELOPMENT)

  • "Imagining the Temple Early Jews and Jesus Knew"

  • "The Architecture of Jerusalem and Worship in the Temple"

  • "Worship, Festivals, and the Central Power of the Temple"

  • "Temple Symbolism and the Lives of Galilean Jews"

  • "The Heavenly Jerusalem and Temple in the Jewish Apocalypses"

  • "The Importance of the Temple for Early Jews"

  • "How and in what ways is the Temple and Zion symbolically represented in the Psalter, and to what extent is the Psalter the "HYMNBOOK" of the Temple?"

  • "Jesus, the Temple leadership, and the Temple"

  • "Did Jesus' Followers Worship in the Temple?"

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LECTURE HALL LOCATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
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Boca Raton Christian High School Auditorium
470 Northwest 4th Avenue
Boca Raton, FL 33432

(561) 391-2727