Rather than doing a summary for each day I am writing a single summary for the conference, as I travel up to Oxford. The past day and a half of this conference have been stimulating and engaging, with it revolving around paired longer plenary papers and longer breaks for discussion and…
The third day of the symposium was only a half day, and revolved around three plenary sessions. Reinhard Kratz opened the morning with an in depth paper looking at the parallels between 4Q246 and the Old Testament backgrounds that it presumes and envelops. This paper expanded and explored aspects of…
Day two of the St Andrews Symposium started with a bang, as Michael Peppard presented a strong argument for the need of Christological research to engage with the pervasive imperial cult, rather than merely focusing on the Jewish origins. To put Peppard’s perspective on the imperial cult in his own…
The St Andrews symposium on ‘Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity’ kicked off today with a busy afternoon including four plenary sessions and a parallel session with four papers. Richard Bauckham started the day with a paper on the use of Lord (κυριος) as a replacement…
