CONFERENCE registration: Institutions in villages in Egypt from the early Roman to the Fatimid period

Institutions in villages in Egypt
from the early Roman to the Fatimid period
King’s College London, 3-4 July 2014

To register flow the link
Registration fees include tea/coffee breaks, lunch, and a drinks reception on 3rd July.

Please note that deadline for registration is 13th June 2014.

Programme

Thursday 3 July
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Micaela Langellotti (London) Introduction
9:45-10:30 Mario C. D. Paganini (Copenhagen) Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt
10:30-11:15 François Lerouxel (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt

11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee Break

11:45-12:30 Andrea Jördens (Heidelberg) Feste und Feierlichkeiten im Hinterland
12:30-13:15 Roberto Mascellari (Florence) Security, legality and police procedures in Roman Egypt: the role of village officials in the submission of complaints

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:00 Thomas Kruse (Vienna) The organisation of the state farmers and its role in village administration
15:00-15:45 Maria Nowak (Warsaw) Village or town: Does it matter in legal terms?

15:45-16:15 Tea/Coffee Break

16:15-17:00 Silvia Strassi (Padua) Presbyteroi nell'Egitto romano: i casi di Bakchias e Karanis
17:00-17:45 Micaela Langellotti (London) Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt

18:00-19:30 Drinks reception

Friday 4 July
9:00-9:45 Lajos Berkes (Heidelberg) Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th–8th centuries)
9:45-10:30 Roberta Mazza (Manchester) Associations (koina) in villages and minor localities of the Apion estate between reality and documentary formulas
10:30-11:15 Gesa Schenke (Oxford) The Monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer

11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee Break

11:45-12:30 Arietta Papacostantinou (Reading) The lashane and the ‘great men’: secular authority in villages of the Umayyad period
12:30-13:15 Yossef Rapoport (London) Tribal institutions in Ayyubid Fayyum (1243 CE)

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:00 Dominic Rathbone (London) Conclusions
15:00 Discussion

For enquiries please contact Micaela Langellotti at micaela.1.langellotti@kcl.ac.uk.

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Christian Askeland, "Jesus had an ugly sister-in-law"

On the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog

See also Alin Suciu

And this email from Leo Depuydt

Greetings!

There has been a new development today in the affaire of the Wife of Jesus Fragment. I refer for the relevant facts to Christian Askeland's blog at:

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.de/2014/04/jesus-had-ugly-sister-in-law.html

I now contact myself all those who have contacted me. Please feel to share this with any and all. All I say and write is quotable.

Professor King has changed her story so often that I feel that she should be allowed one more change: A change to a total and unconditional (and, if sincere, tearful) recantation.

What has just happened? I summarize for a wider audience.

One reason that so many people have been fooled by the Wife of Jesus Fragment is that it was offered for sale along with a papyrus fragment containing excerpts from the Gospel of John. Now, the Gospel of John is the best preserved ancient Coptic text by far. Its presence lent WJF an aura of credibility. But no one ever looked at the John fragment because it was not accessible. It has now become accessible in the past two weeks and some people had a look. It has now just recently been established (for detailed credits, see Christian's blog) that it is 100% certain that this fragment is a fake. No doubt about it. Why so?

The Coptic fragment of John is in the Subakhmimic dialect of Coptic. Most preserved ancient Coptic is in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic. It so happens that a reasonably well preserved papyrus codex containing the Gospel of John was published by Sir Herbert Thompson in 1924. I am looking at it. There are nice pictures of all the pages located strategically facing page by facing page next to the modern transcription. It is 100% certain that the Coptic fragment of John offered for sale along with WJF is copied from the Thompson codex. All the line beginnings are the same, except that the forger made two lines into one or the like. I too checked it. This cannot be coincidence. Earlier, Dr. Choat and Dr. Schwendner had established that the fragment of John and WJF are apparently written by the same person, by the same pen, and by the same ink. Dr. Askeland then established the critical link to Thompson's John. This afternoon, Alin Suciu writes me and others to the effect that Subakhmimic _abal_ "out of" has been replaced by Sahidic _ebol_ "out of". This is, once again, a grammatical blunder. For a detailed statement of credits, I refer again to Christian's site. I do not want to misrepresent anyone's contributions.

If the fragment from John (which seems so very much more believable than WJF) is now 100% certainly a fake, then how could WJF, written by the very same person, possibly not be?

To me, all this is just a confirmation of what I thought two minutes after I first saw WJF when a bright and cheerful Brown student referred me to the link (I really have to tell my professor about this) in September 2012 and when I immediately wrote back to her : "It stinks!"

When is this papyrological pantomime, this Keystone Coptic, this academic farce, this philological burlesque finally going to stop? Is this academic misconduct or is this not academic misconduct?

The design of my report was to keep this out of HTR so that none of this would ever see the light of day and I could not make it work. I was in fact appointed to Harvard at the time to work with graduate students. My own efforts were reciprocated more recently by an effort on the part of K.K. to delay my report (and, I suspect, find another pretext to keep it out). Happily, that did not work either.

The Wikipedia site does not give a peep about opinions challenging the authenticity of WJF. Perhaps this means that the identities of all the people to whom I now write and others in addition involved will be wiped off the face of the earth. Brace yourselves. You may be tainted.

If you have still questions or for background, please feel to contact Christian or others mentioned on Christian's blog and related blogs or also myself.

Yesterday, there was also the development pertaining to the identity of H.-U. Lauman, a presumed owner of WJF (see report by Own Jarus at www.livescience.com).

Thanks for your attention and best wishes.

Leo Depuydt

508 285 7017

A GOOD SCRIBE AND AN EXCEEDINGLY WISE MAN Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait

A GOOD SCRIBE AND AN

EXCEEDINGLY WISE MAN Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait

edited by

A. M. DODSON J. J. JOHNSTON &

W. MONKHOUSE

Demotic Consultant

C. J. MARTIN

GHP Egyptology 21 

Contents

Preface vii  W.J. Tait: a life in Egyptology ix  W.J. Tait: a bibliography to 2013 x List of Abbreviations 

New Evidence for Prince Ahmose (Sapair)

Carol Andrews … 1 

Limestone and Plaster Royal Sculpture of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods in the Fitzwilliam Museum

 Sally-Ann Ashton…7 

A Demotic Tax List from the Thebaid

W. Clarysse, C.J. Martin &  D.J. Thompson…25 

L’alphabet des oiseaux (O. dém. DelM 4-2).

Didier Devauchelle…57 

De Lacy O’Leary: Copticist, historian of the ancient eastern church and flawed cleric of the Anglican Church

Aidan Dodson &  M.J. Crossley  Evans…67

The Contribution of the Coptic Fragments from de Lagarde’s Catenae in evangelia Aegyptiacae quad  supersunt to our Understanding and Interpretation of Certain of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Quaestiones ad  Stephanum et ad Marinum 

Carol Downer…89

The Tomb of Khnumhotep at Rifeh

Wolfram Grajetzki…99 

A Gazelle, a Lute Player and Bes: three ring bezels from Amarna

Carolyn Graves-Brown…113 

Pastophoros

Friedhelm Hoffmann &  Joachim Friedrich Quack…127 Jaroslav

Jaorslav Černý  and his work at Deir el-Medîna

Jac. J. Janssen† &  Rosalind M. Janssen … 157 

Rewriting History: Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Night of Counting the Years

John J. Johnston … 167 

Some Ramesside Exotica

K.A. Kitchen … 177 

The Egyptian Attitude to the Persians

Alan B Lloyd … 185 

A Very Bright Poet, a Long Time Ago: considerations of language, meaning and the mind during the Bronze Age Correspondence from the Necropolis: two demotic letters from the Sacred Animal 

Necropolis, North Saqqara

Cary J. Martin, H.S. Smith &  Sue Davies … 213 

Landholders, Rents and Crops in a Ptolemaic  Village: P. Heid. Dem. inv. 46

Andrew Monson … 229 Scribal Practice and an Early Dynastic Stone Vessel Inscription: Material and Aesthetic Implications

Kathryn Piquette … 241  

Visions of Gods: P. Vienna D 6633–6636, a fragmentary pantheon in a demotic dream book

 Luigi Prada … 251 

A Fragment from the Beginning of Papyrus Spiegelberg (P. Carlsberg 565)

Kim Ryholt … 271 

Preparing for an Excavation: the 1909-10 EEF season at Abydos

Patricia Spencer … 279

Logistische Probleme im Aussenposten

Heinz-Josef Thissen … 291 

The Sale of a Female Donkey

J. David Thomas … 301 

Go Figure: metaphor, metonymy and the practice of translation in the ‘First Tale of Setne Khaemwas’

Steve Vinson … 305  

A White Wall is a Fool’s Paper

 S.P. Vleeming … 323

Conference: Institutions in villages in Egypt from the early Roman to the Fatimid period

Institutions in villages in Egypt
from the early Roman to the Fatimid period

King's College London, 3-4 July 2014

This conference will focus on the study of administrative, economic and social institutions in villages in Egypt from the early Roman period through to the Fatimid period. The aim of the conference is threefold: 1) to assess the role and importance of village institutions in the community; 2) to examine whether and to what extent villages had communal self-awareness; 3) to investigate how institutions (and the very idea of them) changed over time.
The conference is organised with the support of the British Academy.

Programme

Thursday 3 July
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Micaela Langellotti (London) Introduction
9:45-10:30 Mario C. D. Paganini (Copenhagen) Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt
10:30-11:45 François Lerouxel (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt

11:45-12:15 Tea/Coffee Break

12:15-12:45 Andrea Jördens (Heidelberg) Feste und Feierlichkeiten im Hinterland
12:45-13:15 Roberto Mascellari (Florence) Security, legality and police procedures in Roman Egypt: the role of village officials in the submission of complaints

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-14:45 Thomas Kruse (Vienna) The organisation of the state farmers and its role in village administration
14:45-15:30 Maria Nowak (Warsaw) Village or town: Does it matter in legal terms?

15:30-16:00 Tea/Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Silvia Strassi (Padua) Presbyteroi nell'Egitto romano: i casi di Bakchias e Karanis
16:45-17:30 Micaela Langellotti (London) Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt

18:00-19:30 Drinks reception

Friday 4 July
9:00-9:45 Lajos Berkes (Heidelberg) Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th–8th centuries)
9:45-10:30 Roberta Mazza (Manchester) Associations (koina) in villages and minor localities of the Apion estate between reality and documentary formulas
10:30-11:15 Gesa Schenke (Oxford) The Monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer

11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee Break

11:45-12:30 Arietta Papacostantinou (Reading) The lashane and the 'great men': secular authority in villages of the Umayyad period
12:30-13:15 Yossef Rapoport (London) Tribal institutions in Ayyubid Fayyum (1243 CE)

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-14:45 Dominic Rathbone (London) Conclusions
14:45 Discussion

For enquiries please contact Micaela Langellotti at micaela.1.langellotti@kcl.ac.uk.

Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri (BOEP) 3.1

Online here

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIX, London 2014

* Malcolm Choat, The Gospel of Jesus's Wife: A Preliminary Paleographical Assessment *

HTR 107 (2014), 60-62.


"Overall, if the general appearance of the papyrus prompts some suspicion, it is difficult to falsify by a strictly paleographical examination. This should not be taken as proof that the papyrus is genuine, simply that its handwriting and the manner in which it has been written do not provide definitive grounds for proving otherwise."

No evidence of forgery in ancient text mentioning ‘Jesus’s wife

Story in the Boston Globe

"“I’m basically hoping that we can move past the issue of forgery to questions about the significance of this fragment for the history of Christianity, for thinking about questions like, ‘Why does Jesus being married, or not, even matter? Why is it that people had such an incredible reaction to this?’ ” King said in an interview."


More Bibliography here:

DODICESIMO SEMINARIO PAPIROLOGICO FIORENTINO: Papiri inediti delle collezioni fiorentine

Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” (Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia)

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Accademia Fiorentina di Papirologia e di Studi sul Mondo Antico

 

DODICESIMO SEMINARIO PAPIROLOGICO FIORENTINO

 

Papiri inediti delle collezioni fiorentine

 

Il seminario si terrà a Firenze dal 22 al 30 settembre 2014, presso l’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» (Borgo degli Albizi 12) e sarà coordinato dai proff. Guido Bastianini (Università di Firenze), Gabriella Messeri (Università di Napoli «Federico II») e Rosario Pintaudi (Università di Messina), con la collaborazione del dr. Antonio López García (Barcellona).

Il lavoro dei partecipanti si svolgerà su testi inediti delle collezioni fiorentine.

I partecipanti saranno impegnati nel restauro dei papiri e saranno loro fornite le necessarie istruzioni tecniche per operare sul materiale. Inoltre, i partecipanti affronteranno lo studio diretto degli originali: saranno fornite le nozioni fondamentali sulla metodologia della trascrizione e sulle varie tipologie dei testi che si recuperano dai papiri, nonché nozioni di inquadramento storico generale.

Il seminario è riservato a giovani in possesso di Laurea (triennale o magistrale) in ambito letterario o storico, con percorsi di studio di indirizzo classico, filologico o storico-antico. Sono ammessi anche studenti stranieri, con analoghi requisiti. Costituirà titolo preferenziale per l’ammissione al seminario l’avere svolto una tesi in Papirologia; non verranno prese in considerazione le domande di coloro che abbiano precedentemente partecipato a più di un’altra iniziativa analoga.

Al termine del seminario, sarà rilasciato un attestato di frequenza a coloro che abbiano seguito tutte le fasi dei lavori.

Il numero dei partecipanti è limitato a 12.

La quota di iscrizione è fissata in 250 euro.

Le domande di iscrizione devono pervenire entro il 28 giugno 2014 e devono essere indirizzate al prof. Guido Bastianini presso l’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli», Borgo degli Albizi 12, I-50122 Firenze. Si prega di indicare sulla busta: “Dodicesimo Seminario Papirologico Fiorentino”. Alla domanda, in carta semplice, devono essere acclusi il curriculum vitae e una lettera di presentazione rilasciata da un docente universitario.

La quota di iscrizione dovrà essere versata secondo le modalità che saranno indicate nella lettera con cui sarà comunicato che la domanda di iscrizione è stata accettata.

I richiedenti saranno informati sull’esito della loro domanda entro il 14 luglio 2013.

 

I coordinatori del Seminario

Guido Bastianini, Gabriella Messeri, Rosario Pintaudi

Guido Bastianini

Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli"

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Borgo degli Albizi 12

I-50122 Firenze

" New Editions of Turner, Cavallo and Maehler" from Brice Jones

Brice C. Jones blog