BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 RDATE:20120311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 RDATE:20121104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T163000 LOCATION:J.R. Howard Hall GEO:45.451619;-122.669391 SUMMARY:Papyri and Religious Imagination in Ancient Egypt By Rob Kugler ( Lewis & Clark College) DESCRIPTION:The recent publication of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife brought t he papyri from ancient Egypt into public imagination. There is\, though\, far more to the story of payrological remains and their implications for understanding religion in the ancient world than that nine-line fragment \, and the rest of the story is also surprisingly much more engaging than the recent item splashed across the pages of local and national newspape rs.Prof. Rob Kugler\, Religious Studies and Classics\, offers a glimpse i nto that larger world with the year's first Religious Studies Department colloquium\, to be held onNovember 7\, 2012\, at 3:30 pm in JRHH 124.As a scholar who works in papyrology in the Hellenistic period\, he brings to the topic his own research\, which includes direct work with papyri in c ollections across Germany\, Switzerland\, and Austria. He will address th e recent publication of theGospel of Jesus' Wife\, as well as the ongoing debates regarding its authenticity\, and\, of course\, share parts of th at larger\, more interesting story. He will take up in particular the que stion of how the broad range of documentary and literary evidence papyri from Egypt help us understand the emergence of religion in the ancient wo rld. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The recent publication of the Gospe
l of Jesus' Wife brought the papyri from ancient Egypt into public i
magination. There is\, though\, far more to the story of payrological rem
ains and their implications for understanding religion in the ancient wor
ld than that nine-line fragment\, and the rest of the story is also surpr
isingly much more engaging than the recent item splashed across the pages
of local and national newspapers.
Prof. Rob Kugler\, Religious Studies and Classics\, offers a gl
impse into that larger world with the year's first Religious Studies Depa
rtment colloquium\, to be held onNovember 7\, 2012\, at 3:30 pm in JRHH 124.As a scholar who works in papyrolo
gy in the Hellenistic period\, he brings to the topic his own research\,
which includes direct work with papyri in collections across Germany\, Sw
itzerland\, and Austria. He will address the recent publication of theGospel of Jesus' Wife\, as well as the ongoing debates regarding
its authenticity\, and\, of course\, share parts of that larger\, more in
teresting story. He will take up in particular the question of how the br
oad range of documentary and literary evidence papyri from Egypt help us
understand the emergence of religion in the ancient world.