PROGRAMME All the sessions will take place in the Senate Hall of the Faculty of Theology 17:00-18:25 Registration SUNDAY 14 JULY 18:30-20:30 Welcoming Dinner 18:30-18:40 Welcome by conference organisers (Pierre Jordaan) 18:40-20:30 Dinner Welcoming Addresses Introductions: Pierre Jordaan MONDAY 15 JULY 08:00-08:05 Introduction of Prof. Fika van Rensburg 08:00-08:10 Welcome by Dean: Faculty of Theology, Fika van Rensburg 08:10-08:15 Introduction of Prof. Martin Oosthuizen 08:15-08:25 Welcome by NWU Vice Rector, Martin Oosthuizen SESSION 1 Chair: Helen Efthimiadis-Keith 08:30-08:40 Introduction of Keynote Speaker & programme 08:40-09:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1: Athalya Brenner (Amsterdam University and Tel Aviv University) Clothing Seduces: Did You Think It Was the Naked Flesh that Does It? 09:15-09:30 Questions for Keynote Address 1
09:30-09:35 Introduction of Session 1 Speakers 09.35-09:55 Paper 1: Nicholas Allen (NWU) Judith: Embodying Holiness in a Godless Space 10:00-10:20 Paper 2: Risimati Hobyane (NWU) Body and Space in Judith: A Greimassian Perspective 10:20-10:35 Questions for Papers 1 and 2 10:35-10:55 TEA SESSION 2 Chair: Chris de Wet 11:00-11:05 Introduction of Keynote Speaker 11:05-11:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2: Johannes N Vorster (UNISA) 4 Maccabees and the Performativity of Pain, Politics, Place and Piety 11:40-11:55 Questions for Keynote Address 2 11:55-12:00 Introduction of Session 2 Speakers 12:00-12:20 Paper 3: Pieter Botha (UNISA) The Maccabean Literature and Judean Literacy in the Greco-Roman period 12:20-12:40 Paper 4: Eugene Coetzer (NWU) The Function of the Martyr's Status in 2 Maccabees 12:40-13:00 Questions for Papers 3 and 4 13:00-14:00 LUNCH
SESSION 3 Chair: Pieter Botha 14:00-14:05 Introduction of Session 3 Speakers 14:05-14:25 Paper 5: Philip Nolte (NWU) A Politics of the Female Body. Reading Esther s Prayer, Susanna, and Judith in a Brutalized South African Society 14:25-14:45 Paper 6: Chris L. De Wet (UNISA) Susanna s Body: The Representation, Crisis and Resolution of Socio-Sexual Control in Daniel 13 14:45-15:05 Paper 7: Dichk Mwambe Kanonge (NWU) ETRE AND PARAITRE - The Games of Truth in the Story of Susanna 15:05-15:25 Questions for Papers 5, 6 and 7 15:25-15:50 TEA SESSION 4 Chair: Busangokwakhe Dlamini 15:55-16:00 Introduction of Session 4 Speakers 16:00-16:20 Paper 8: Natashia van der Merwe (UJ) The Identification of the Counter-culture Rhetoric Advocating an Alternative Body Ideology as Hidden Polemic within Judith 16.20-16:40 Paper 9: Paul Onwuegbuchulam and Nneka Ifeoma Okafor (UKZN) A Theoretical Investigation into the Politics of Female Body and Beauty in the Book of Judith with Special Reference to Ahebi of Igboland 16:40-17:00 Questions for Papers 8 and 9 18:30-20:30 DINNER
SESSION 5 Chair: Helen Efthimiadis-Keith TUESDAY 16 JULY 08:30-08:40 Introduction of Keynote Speaker & programme 08:40-09:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 : Pierre Jordaan (NWU) Body, Space and Narrative in 2 Maccabees 1:1-10a 09:15-09:30 Questions for Keynote Address 3 09:30-09:35 Introduction of Session 5 Speakers 09:35-09:55 Paper 10: Busangokwakhe Dlamini (UKZN) Apocryphal Literature as a Resource for the Healing of the Nation 10:00-10:20 Paper 11: Zacharias Kotzé (NWU) Jungian Archetypes and Individuation in the Book of Baruch 10:20-10:40 Questions for Papers 10 and 11 10:40-10:55 TEA SESSION 6 Chair: Pierre Jordaan 11:00-11:05 Introduction of Keynote Speaker 11:05-11:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4: Jan Willem van Henten (Amsterdam University and Stellenbosch University) Space and Body in 2 Maccabees 11:40-11:55 Questions for Keynote Address 4
11:55-12:00 Introduction of Session 6 Speakers 12:00-12:20 Paper 12: Joseph Jacobus de Bruyn (NWU) In Remembrance of God s Messianic Vessel Body and Space in Psalm 151 12:20-12:40 Paper 13: Marceline Niwenshuti (UKZN) Us and Them: Psyche and Violence; Comparing Jewish Persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes and the Rwandan 1994 Genocide 12:40-13:00 Questions for Papers 12 and 13 13:00-14:00 LUNCH followed by OUTING TO GAME RESERVE and BRAAI (Barbeque) SESSION 7 Chair: Pierre Jordaan WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 08:30-08:40 Introduction of Keynote Speaker & programme 08:40-09:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 5: Helen Efthimiadis-Keith (UKZNl) Fish, Food and Death: An Autobiographical Perspective on Tobit According to One Woman s Binge-eating Disorder 09:15-09:30 Questions for Keynote Address 5 09:30-09:35 Introduction of Session 7 Speakers 09:35-09.55 Paper 14: Jessie Rogers: Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick, Ireland) Where is (Woman) Wisdom to be Found and How Can We Apprehend Her? 10:00-10:20 Paper 15: Kudzai Taruona (UKZN) The Universe as Sacred Social Space:
Wisdom of Solomon and Environmental Ethics 10:20-10:40 Questions for Papers 14 and 15 10:40-10:55 TEA SESSION 8 Chair: Pierre Jordaan 11:00-11:05 Introduction of Session 8 Speaker 11:05-11:40 Paper 16: Pieter M Venter (UP) Spatiality in Enoch s Journeys (1 Enoch 12-36) 11:40-11:50 Questions for Paper 16 11:50-11:55 Introduction of Keynote Speaker 12:00-12:35 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 6: George W. E. Nickelsburg (University of Iowa & NWU) Space and Time, Body and Psychē in 1 Enoch and 2 Maccabees 12:35-12:50 Questions for Keynote Address 6 12:40-13:00 EVALUATION, PUBLICATION and WAY FORWARD 13:00-14:00 LUNCH BON VOYAGE! LEHITRAOT