Date & Time: 07/12/2004

Tuesday, 7 December, 2004
18.00-19.00 Opening Session
Michael Fishbane (Chicago), ´´Exegetical Theology and Divine Suffering in Judaism´´

Reception

Wednesday, 8 December, 2004
9.00-10.00 Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv), ´´Strategies of Abjection and Rejection: Imprisonment, Torture, and Execution of Divine Beings in the Assyrian Empire´´

10.00 - 11.00 Jan Assmann (Heidelberg), ´´The Suffering of Osiris: Myth and Ritual´´

Coffee break

11.30-12.30 Shaul Shaked (Jerusalem), ´´Gayomard: Prototype of a Zoroastrian Suffering Divinity?´´

Lunch break

14.30 -15.30 Israel Knohl (Jerusalem), ´´The ´´Suffering Servant´´ from Isaiah to the Dead Sea Scrolls´´

15.30 -16.30 Serge Ruzer (Jerusalem), ´´Jesus´´s Martyrdom and God´´s Suffering: Luke-Acts as a Low Point in Myth Making?´´

Coffee break

17.00 - 18.00 Guy Stroumsa (Jerusalem), ´´Real Presence or Real Suffering? Early Christian Dilemmas´´

18.00-19.00 Andrew Plaks (Princeton), “Why Don’t the Chinese Gods Suffer?´´

Thursday, 9 December, 2004

9.00 -10.00 Margalit Finkelberg (Tel Aviv), ´´Herakles: Becoming God through Suffering´´

10.00 -11.00 Moshe Idel (Jerusalem), ´´The Suffering of the Shekhinah in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah´´

Coffee break

11.30 -12.30 Yuri Stoyanov (London), ´´The ´´Suffering Jesus´´ in Medieval Christian Dualism: Controversies and Unresolved Problems´´

Lunch break

14.30 - 15.30
Lawrence Besserman (Jerusalem), ´´Imitatio Christi in the Later Middle Ages: Alternative Paradigms´´

15.30 -16.30 Shira Wolosky (Jerusalem), ´´Edward Taylor: American Conversions of the Suffering God´´

Coffee break

17.00 - 18.00 Idit Shaked (Jerusalem), ´´The Thorny Crown of Revolution: Unexpected (?) Images of the Suffering God´´

18.00 - 18.30
Concluding Discussion

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