The BYZANTINE LITURGY and THE JEWS

16.00-18.00 City Tour (meeting point: Ramada ground floor hall)

18.30-20.00 Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall)

08.30-09.00 Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall)

09.00-09.30 OPENING ADDRESS (Ramada Alfa Room)

09.30-11.00 Session I – Chair: Stefan Tobler

MICHAEL AZAR
Israel: The People of God in Byzantine Liturgy

BOGDAN BUCUR
Missing the (Theophanic) Point: A Blind Spot in Patristic Scholarship and Its Consequences for Understanding Jewish Texts in Byzantine Festal Hymns

ALEXANDRU IONIȚĂ
Mapping the Anti-Jewish Topoi of the Triodion

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Session II – Chair: Bronwen Neil

PATRICK ANDRIST
Le De Paschα de Méliton et son contexte: existait-il, dans l’Antiquité, une tradition chrétienne de polémique antijudaïque dans les liturgies de la période de Pâques? / Contextualising Melito’s De Paschα: Was There, in Antiquity, a Christian Tradition of Polemics Adversus Iudaeos in the Liturgies Around Easter?

HARALD BUCHINGER
Anti-Judaism at the Origins of the Byzantine Liturgical Year: “Israel” and “the Jews” in Severian of Gabala’s FestalHomilies

ISTVÁN PERCZEL
Is Saint John Chrysostom the Father ofByzantine anti-Semitism? In Memoriam Zvetlana-Mihaela Tanasă

13.00-15.00 Lunch Break

15.00-17.00 Session III – Chair: Harald Buchinger

ELIANE POIROT
Les seize Discours liturgiques de Grégoire de Nazianze dans la liturgie byzantine

RADU GHEORGHE GÂRBACEA
“Consider with me…the Jews’ Folly”: the Image of the Jews in the Patristic Homilies and the Hymnography on Lazarus

BRONWEN NEIL
Mary and the Jews in the Byzantine Liturgy in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

BASILIUS GROEN
The Strained Relationship between Venerating Old Testament Saints and Singing anti-Jewish Hymns

17.00-17.30 Coffee Break

17.30-19.00 Session IV – Chair: Partick Andrist

DORU CONSTANTIN DOROFTEI
Christ, Christians, and Christianity in the Palestinian Aramaic Poetry of Late Antiquity

RUTH LANGER, DEMETRIOS E. TONIAS
The Self through the Other in Byzantine and Jewish Liturgies: A Comparative Exercise

BARBARA CROSTINI
The Objects of Jewish Cult from a Christian Perspective: Materiality and Mediation in Faith and Worship

19.30 Conference festive dinner (Ramada Hotel)

09.00-11.00 Session V – Chair: Alexandru Ioniță

SANDRINE CANERI
La prière liturgique au regard de l’Évangile: comment les juifs sont-ils présentés?

VADIM WITTKOWSKY
Das Bild der „Juden“ in der orthodoxen Karwochenliturgie vor dem Hintergrund der „antijüdischen“ Stellen des NeuenTestaments

ALEXANDRU MIHĂILĂ
Quoting Scripture against the Jews in the Holy Week Orthodox Cult

PETER EBENBAUER
„Mein Volk, was habe ich dir getan?“ Die Karfreitags-Improperien in den gegenwärtigen Ordnungen des byzantinischen und des römisch-katholischen Ritus

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Session VIa – Alfa Room Chair: Stephen Shoemaker

EVELINA MINEVA
The Jews in the Hymns of John Damascus, Marcos Eugenikos and in the South Slavic Translations of Byzantine Hymns

NADIESZDA KIZENKO
The Long Shadow of Byzantine Anti-Jewish Liturgical Texts: the Church Slavonic Service to Martyr Gavriil of Bielostok in Late Imperial Russia

VICTORIA LEGKIKH
ChristiansastheNewPeoplethroughtheImagesofOldTestament in Byzantine and Russian Orthodox Hymnography

Session VIb – Betta RoomShoemaker Chair: Pablo Argárate

ALEXANDRU PRELIPCEAN
Andrew of Crete’s Anti-Jewish Hymnography of the Triodion

EIRINI ARTEMI
The Psalms, the Hymns and the Texts of the Old Testament and Their Use in Holy Monday and Tuesday

PARASKEVI TOMA
PoliticallyCorrectorJustnotAnti-Jewish:ReconstructingtheProfile of the Middle Byzantine Hymnographer

13.00-15.00  Lunch Break

15.00-17.00 Session VII – Chair: Reinhart Ceulemans

BERNARD OUTTIER
L’image des Juifs dans l’hymnographie arménienne et géorgienne ancienne

STEPHEN J SHOEMAKER
Passion Piety and Anti-Judaism in Late Ancient Jerusalem: Hymns for the Holy Week from the Jerusalem Georgian Chantbook

BABY VARGHESE
Cult of the Old Testament Saint and Anti-Judaic Polemics in the Syrian Orthodox Liturgy

PABLO ARGÁRATE
Israel and the Jews in the Kontakia of Romanos Melodos

17.00-17.30 Coffee Break

9.00-10.30 Session IX – Chair: Barbara Crostini

PIER GIORGIO TANEBURGO OFM. CAP.
Was the first Metropolitan ofRus’ Anti-Jewish? An Enquiry into the Homily ofHilarion

AGNIESZKA GRONEK
Representations of the Sanhedrin in Post-Byzantine Art

CHARALAMPOS MINAOGLOU
The Byzantine Liturgy and the Post-Byzantine Anti-Jewish Literature

10.30-11.00 Poster presentation

NATALIIA KOSTIUK
Images of the Old Testament in a Liturgy of the 18th – Early 19th Centuries: Some Aspects of Use of Texts of «The Book of Psalms»

11.00-11.30  Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Session X – Chair: Doru Doroftei

REINHART CEULEMANS
Anti-Jewish Measures from Macedonian Emperors: the Role of the Bible

ANA-MARIA RĂDUCAN
Jewish Authors in the Patriarch’ Bibliotheke

ALEXANDER ZANEMONETS
“I reject Every Jewish Custom”: Byzantine Formulas of Renouncing Judaism in the 11th Century

13.00-15.00 Lunch Break

15.00-17.00 SESSION XI – Chair: Bogdan Bucur

IONUȚ BILIUȚĂ
“Through Their Sacrifice, They Silenced the Shameless Jews!”: Antisemitic Tropes in the Liturgy of the Saints of the Communist Prisons in Contemporary Romania

MARIAN PĂTRU
The Liturgical Construction of Jewishness. The Image of the Jew and Judaism in the Homiletical Discourse of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Interwar Period.

IOAN CHIRILĂ, CĂTĂLIN VARGA
“The Glory of Your people Israel” (Lk. 2:32). The Nunc dimittis in the Romanian Orthodox Vespers of the 20th century and Israel’s Dilemma in the Oral Liturgical Tradition

ALINA PĂTRU
Reception of Liturgical Hymns by Christian Orthodox Service Attenders

17.00-17.30 Coffee Break

17.30-19.00 Session XII – Conclusive discussion – Chairs: Stefan Tobler & Alexandru Ioniță

July 12, 09.00 Departure for the conference trip (Ramada Parking)

July 13, 21.00 Arrival back to Sibiu (Ramada Parking)