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Datum: May 02, 2011 -to- May 04, 2011
Knowledge to Die For: Transmission of Prohibited and Esoteric Knowledge through Space and Time
Convenor: Florentina Badalanova Geller (fgeller@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Provisional Programme, 2-4 May, 2011
Monday 2nd May
10.00 Welcome address: Jürgen Renn (MPIWG, Berlin)
10.30 Michael Stone (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Claims of esotericism in ancient Jewish Literature
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Boris Uspensky (Istituto Orientale di Napoli)
The Glagolitic alphabet as a Manifestation of the Sacred Knowledge
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Gebhard Selz (University of Vienna)
Esotericism in Mesopotamia
15.15 Tal Ilan (FU Berlin)
The Torah of the Rabbi to live for, the Knowledge of Women to die for: Timtinis and the Rabbis
16.00 Tea
16.15 Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Proto-Gnostic Traditions in Apocalyptic Literature
17.00 James Russell (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Two books of secret lore: one nonexistent but thought to be real, the other real but thought a fiction
Free evening
Tuesday 3rd May
10.00 H. Kippenberg (Jacobs University, Bremen)
The practice of dissimulating one's religious identity in ancient Christianity, Gnosticism and Early Islam
10.45 Dimitri Gutas (Yale University, New Haven, Conn)
Knowledge to Lie For: Medieval Affectations of Esoteric Philosophy and Modern Scholarship
11.30 Coffee
11.45 Angelika Neuwirth (FU Berlin)
The "hidden world", al-ghayb, in the Qur’an, a present absentee.
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Antonio Panaino (University of Ravenna)
A ritual esoteric simulation of the ascent to Paradise in the 3rd c. inscriptions of the Sasanian High Priest Kirder
14.45 Maria Macuch (FU Berlin)
Heresy and Esoterism in Pre-Islamic Iran
15.30 Tea
16.00 Velizar Sadovski (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Knowledge of magic - magic of knowledge: Atharva-Veda and systematization of universe in sacred tradition of Indo-Iranian
16.45 Jens Braarvig (University of Oslo)
Secrecy and open access in historical India – some cases
17.30 Matteo Martelli (HU Berlin)
1 Enoch and the first book of alchemy (short paper)
Dinner for Speakers and Chairpersons 7.00 pm
Wednesday 4th May
10.00 Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Brandenburg Academy of Sciences)
What did Manichaeans think of dying for your beliefs?
10.45 Yuri Stoyanov (SOAS, London)
Dualism as a Proscribed and Secreted Knowledge in pre-modern heterodox forms of Christianity - provenance and evolution
11.30 Coffee
11.45 David Shankland (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, London)
Ritual, secrecy, and the creation of Alevi-tradition in Anatolia
12.30 Closing discussion
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