Scholars, Priests and Temples - Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context - 12-13-14/05/2016, Berli
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 12-13-14/05/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6 (Berlin, Germany)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Mathieu Ossendrijver; Ruti Ungar
INFO: web - mathieu.ossendrijver@topoi.org ruti.ungar@topoi.org
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12.5.2016
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome
09:30 - 10:20
Egyptian scholars, priests and temples between autonomy and state authority
Brian Muhs – Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA
10:20 - 11:10
Chronicles: temples, priests and historiography in Babylonia
Caroline Waerzeggers – Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
11:10 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
Egyptian temple inscriptions of the Roman Period – primarily from Esna
David Klotz – eikones, NFS Bildkritik, Basel, Switzerland
12:20 - 13:10
Exchange of “esoteric” knowledge in Late Antiquity between Jewish and Babylonian scholars
Markham J. Geller – Excellence Cluster Topoi
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
The economic interests of Urukean scholars
Heather Baker – Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
15:20 - 16:10
The business portfolio of Babylonian scholars and private funding of temples in the Late Period
Johannes Hackl – Altorientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig
16:10 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:20
Priestly scholars in Late Egypt: the theoretical side
Joachim Quack – Ägyptologisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
13.5.2016
09:30 - 10:20
The religious sciences in Ancient Egypt
Alexandra von Lieven – Ägyptologisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin
10:20 - 11:10
Knowledge and continuance of the methods of Babylonian mathematical astronomy in Roman Egypt
Alexander Jones – Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA
11:10 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
Incorporating tradition within innovation: the continued relevance of MUL.APIN in Late Babylonian astronomy
John Steele – Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University, Providence, USA
12:20 - 13:10
Philology: principles of a cuneiform discipline
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum – Institut für Altorientalistik, Freie Universität Berlin
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
Charming snakes (and kings) from Egypt to Persia
Damien Agut – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France
Philippe Clancier – Archéologies et Sciences de l`Antiquité, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
15:20 - 16:10
Babylonian words in Greek lexicographical texts and the transfer of Babylonian knowledge
Geert de Breucker – Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands
16:10 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:20
Berossus and the Creation Story
Paul-Alain Beaulieu – Art Department, University of Toronto, Canada
14.5.2016
09:30 - 10:20
Late Babylonian predictions of market prices and weather
Mathieu Ossendrijver – Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10:20 - 11:10
The Babylonian iatro-mathematical calendar
Marvin Schreiber – Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
11:10 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
From the archive of an astrologer
Andreas Winkler – Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK
12:20 - 13:10
Astronomy and the temple cults in Hellenistic Babylonia
Julia Krul – Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
Chaeremon of Alexandria and the catasterism of Poppaea (P.Oxy. 77.5105) between Stoic philosophy and Egyptian science
Livia Capponi – Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy