Old Testament in Byzantium
Symposiarchs: Paul Magdalino and Robert Nelson.
Venue: The Meyer Auditorium, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Dates: December 1–3, 2006
Friday, December 1
Morning session
- 9:15 am
- Welcoming Remarks
- 9:30 am
- Introduction
- 10:00 am
- "Old Testament Models for Imperial Virtues and Vices"
- 10:45 am
- 11:00 am
- "Prefiguring the Present, Refiguring the Past.
Moses and David as Paradigms in the Art of the Macedonian Period." - 11:45 am
12:15 pm Lunch
Afternoon session
- 1:15 pm
- The Prophetologion"
- 2:00 pm
- "Octateuch Illustration: Paradigm or Paradox?"
- 2:45 pm
- 3:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
- "The Psalms and Personal Piety in Byzantium"
- 4:15 pm
- "The Old Testament and Monasticism"
- 5:00 pm
Saturday, December 2
Morning session
- 9:15 am
- "The Old Testament in Byzantine Hagiography"
- 10:00 am
- "Old Testament 'History' and the Byzantine Chronicle"
- 10:45 am
- 11:00 am
- 11:30 am
- "The Bible in the Byzantine Admonitory Tradition"
- 12:15 pm
12:30 pm Lunch
Afternoon session
- 1:30 pm
- "New Temples and New Solomons: The Old Testament in Byzantine Architecture"
- 2:15 pm
- "Protoplasts, Patriarchs and Prophets: The Old Testament in Ivory"
- 3:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
- 3:45 pm
- Picturing the Law: The world-view of the Old Testament miniatures in the Lectionary of the Armenian prince Het'um II 1286 AD
- 4:30 pm
- "Old Testament Models and the State in Early Medieval Bulgaria"
- 5:15 pm
7:00 pm Speakers' Dinner at Dumbarton Oaks Refectory
Sunday, December 3
Morning session
- 10:00 am
- "The Greek Bible of the Byzantine Jews"
- 10:45 am
- "Connecting Moses and Muhammad"
- 11:30 am
- 12:00
- Concluding Remarks