Conference Schedule
11:00–11:15am Scientific Introduction
Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina (Yale ISM), conference organizer
11:15am–12:00pm Panel 1: The Sabbath Rest in Judaism: Time, Community, and Identity
Ottilia Lukacs (Pécsi Püspöki Hittudományi Főiskola/ Theological College of Pécs and KU Leuven)
Understanding the Sabbath from the Perspective of Cultural Memory
Sacha Stern (University College London)
The Jewish Sabbath in Antiquity and Middle Ages: Universal, Communal, and Individual
12:00–12:05pm Break
12:05–1:05pm Panel 2: A Mosaics of Times: Sabbaths and Sundays in Ancient Christianity
Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson (University of Münster)
Sabbath and Time in the New Testament
Uta Heil (Universität Wien)
Sabbath or Sunday? Christian Exegesis and Divine Benedictions of a Holy Day
Michele Renée Salzman (University of California Riverside)
The Acts of Silvester: History, Legend and Sundays in Rome
1:05–1:50pm (Lunch) Break
1:50–2:35pm Panel 3: Liturgies of Rest: History and Cosmos
Mark Roosien (Yale Institute of Sacred Music)
The Supplication of the Ninevites: A Rite of Famine, Rest, and Redemption in Late Antique Syriac Christianity
Israel Yuval (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
I will rest, You will not rest until the end of time: Sabbatical and Eschatological Rest
2:35–3:25pm Panel 4: The Sabbath Ancient and (Post) Modern: A Place Beyond Time?
Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham University)
Sabbath Tales in Rabbinic Literature
Sylvie Anne Goldberg (EHESS Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
A Time Beyond Time
3:25–3:30pm Conclusion