Events Downunder (or just in Sydney)

Just some upcoming events this year related to early Christian and Jewish studies. If anything else comes up I'll update this page.

July:
27 July: Ben Witherington: Dining with Demons: Food Offered to Idols and the Controversy that Rocked Early Christianity. with the Society for the Study of Early Christianity [More Information]

28 July: Ben Witherington: Preaching with power: Harnessing the persuasive power of the New Testament in preaching @ Morling College, 120 Herring Rd, Macquarie Park. [Facebook event page]

August
24 August: Professor Hannah Cotton, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Bar Kochba Revolt & the Documents from the Judean Desert with the Society for the Study of Early Christianity and the Sir Asher Joel Foundation  [More Information]


September:
St Andrew's Patristic Symposium 2010: St Gregory the Theologian or the Poetry of Theology:

Every Wedensday of September this year St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney, will be hosting its second annual Patristic Symposium showcasing the life and works of St Gregory the Theologian, a fourth century Cappadocean bishop, poet, and father of the Church. The presentations, ranging from aspects of his worldview, approach to history, and Trinitarian and biblical theology, are by various scholars of distinction and not to be missed!